Official Thread: Walmsley, Herron, Tons of others to chase 100km WR in Project Carbon X 2

No way Jim Walmsley will come close to this record.

I would be surprised if he can run a sub 6:45, which actually is a very very good 100k performance.

As usual, a lot of people have no idea who good some records really are.

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

No way Jim Walmsley will come close to this record.

I would be surprised if he can run a sub 6:45, which actually is a very very good 100k performance.

As usual, a lot of people have no idea who good some records really are.

He did 4:50 for 50 miles in warm conditions, so I doubt adding a few 9:30 miles would be a problem.

Dang. I wonder how the switch to HOKA will affect Camille. She's clearly a high responder to Nike carbon and has worn them for all of her records.

She's also had a few recent issues with joint problems during record attempts. I wonder if she thinks the Hoka Carbons will be better for those issues than the Nike Flys.

buzzcolorado wrote:

He did 4:50 for 50 miles in warm conditions, so I doubt adding a few 9:30 miles would be a problem.

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

buzzcolorado wrote:

He did 4:50 for 50 miles in warm conditions, so I doubt adding a few 9:30 miles would be a problem.

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

He finished, but jogged part of it.

fdafdfas wrote:

Sage Canady (USA)

pacer?

None of those women will get within 35 to 40 minutes of the WR, Camille is the fastest but way to slow to get anywhere near the Japanese woman’s record. To run 6:33 you would have to be a 2:25 ish current marathoner most of those ladies struggle to break 2:50

I don’t see Jim doing it but he may have a sniff with correct pacing.

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

buzzcolorado wrote:

He did 4:50 for 50 miles in warm conditions, so I doubt adding a few 9:30 miles would be a problem.

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

lol, you're not a fanboy of facts either. He obviously finished, otherwise the 50 mile WR would not be ratified.

h45 wrote:

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

He finished, but jogged part of it.

Problem is he went for the 80 k record, then paced himself out for the 100k.

Honestly who cares about 80k?

buzzcolorado wrote:

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

lol, you're not a fanboy of facts either. He obviously finished, otherwise the 50 mile WR would not be ratified.

You are right he jogged it in. But the 50 mile record is not a WR just a best since this distance gets not raced at all on roads. Too bad the US doesn't have a couple of proper 100k road races.

Austin cowboy wrote:

None of those women will get within 35 to 40 minutes of the WR, Camille is the fastest but way to slow to get anywhere near the Japanese woman’s record. To run 6:33 you would have to be a 2:25 ish current marathoner most of those ladies struggle to break 2:50

I don’t see Jim doing it but he may have a sniff with correct pacing.

Camille's 7:08 is from 2015. The second best US result ever I think.

I can't imagine she will be able to top that 6 years later but I have been wrong before.

Is this what the JFK 50 miler winner of 2020 was talking about when he said in a podcast shortly after JFK that he had something big planned in the new year?

Jimmy is love Jimmy is life wrote:

Is this what the JFK 50 miler winner of 2020 was talking about when he said in a podcast shortly after JFK that he had something big planned in the new year?

I believe so. I remember him saying "something big in January" and he's in the race.

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

No way Jim Walmsley will come close to this record.

I would be surprised if he can run a sub 6:45, which actually is a very very good 100k performance.

As usual, a lot of people have no idea who good some records really are.

Why would you think Walmsley would have difficulty breaking 6:45? Tom Johnson probably couldn't have run 2:20, but he ran 6:30 for 100K.

King Tiger wrote:

h45 wrote:

He finished, but jogged part of it.

Problem is he went for the 80 k record, then paced himself out for the 100k.

Honestly who cares about 80k?

Walmsley cared about the 50 mile record because, as he mentioned in an interview after the race, one of his sponsors had offered a very healthy financial bonus for breaking the record.

Not a Walmsley fanboy wrote:

buzzcolorado wrote:

He did 4:50 for 50 miles in warm conditions, so I doubt adding a few 9:30 miles would be a problem.

Actually it was a problem. He couldn't finish that 100k then while the Japanese World Champion had another stellar performance on that day.

I once ran a 2-mile PR by running the first 2 miles in a 5000 at an all-comers meet. I didn't even jog the last 1.1 miles. Should I feel ashamed?

Wamsley is the clear favorite but I think Hawks is in incredible shape right now.

Camille switching to Hoka was surprising, but apparently Nike dropped a bunch of trail athletes this year. No idea how Hoka's carbon fiber shoe stacks up to Nikes, but will be interesting to watch. Isn't it a zero drop? That's a big switch from the 4% or next % or whatever the f it is now.

5 mm drop

https://www.hokaoneone.com/project-carbon-x-2/