Western States Live

Someone yelling a lot about their heat training doesn’t mean it’s actually effective or superior to their competitor’s preparation.

Looks like Caleb split exactly the same (51:00) as Jim's CR between Michigan Bluff and Foresthill. Remains 8:02 ahead of CR splits

At black canyon Eli Hemming was in the lead and thought he could out talent the rest of the field by not using ice. He faded. I’ve ran this race twice. You need a cooling strategy. I guess Kilian is the freak among freaks so you can’t question it I suppose.

Favorites in the women’s race are struggling. Why is this not being discussed?

During his last video, they asked what was in his bottle, and he was like "olive oil". It clearly was, too. Awkward silence followed. Dude is just... Not normal 😂

Stream currently at ~36.5k at 8:45 running time. Was at 30k in recent memory.

Will it hit 50k?

Upvote: Yes, it will hit 50k
Downvote: No, it will not.

Not gonna lie: watching these freaks pick up pacers at this point feels strange. They are going too fast with too many people on the course and all the live coverage in order to need one.

Jimbo himself said it: pacers are becoming obsolete.

Fuzhao moving up well, fastest over the last couple splits.

I'd be amazed if they're not all doing sufficient heat prep. The recent noise seems to be it filtering down to the 'normal' (not elite) athlete population.

Gap stretching out to 13 mins to Kilian and Jeff. Olson and Myers (3.45) crushing it.

Jeff just caught up with Kilian at Forest Hill, looks like these flatter road sections are Kilians Kryptonite.

It even looks like Kilian's pacer is dropping him on the first downhill after the aid station. He has a gap on the GOAT. Maybe he's trying to push the pace?

For the Roche lovers and haters: he's either shipping a lot of time here or his chip has failed again (presumably drowned in gels).

Somebody please sub in for Dylan and Corrine for a couple hours, they sound completely cooked. Doing a great job don't get me wrong but they both sound so tired 😅

I think he's faltering! He will DNF very soon. No way he can tolerate losing contact with Kilian and falling out of the top 5

Exactly, all the elites know how to heat train and take it seriously. Plenty of literature of training anecdotes for everyone to figure out a good protocol.

Still lots of variation in how people will handle the heat on the day to keep things exciting though!

He does have an ice bandana.

That trail is technical enough that I would like to see 50 feet ahead if I was Kilian

Is Roche about to DNF?

Abby Hall into W1. She's having a great day, hope she can keep it going.