Jim Walmsley Training

Anything about Jim Walmsleys training you should take with a grain of salt

That interview was very interesting and it revealed that Jim doesn't have it to go for the World Record.

His training was wrong. He did his 30+ runs on trails. Really?

That is not gonna work. Sub 7 hour runners do usually 35-45 mile runs, not too many but all on roads with the race day speed in mind.

Jim also mentioned that he is more of a trail runner. My guess is, that he got suckered into this, because HOKA needs to sell their shoes.

After this interview, I think he has zero chance of running a good race with a sub 6:40 finish. Which theoretical could have been possible.

My money is on Patrick Reagan. I hope he runs under 6:30.

My old coach ran 6:40 and he never went longer than 5hrs ever in training... also did runs on trail vs. road at times.

Naperville Runner wrote:

I’ve always “bonked” in marathons. Better hydration, pacing, and fueling have pushed bonking from mile 18 to 24 but how can you not bonk running 5:50 pace for 6 plus hours?

I have a simple answer. He won't bonk at mile 20 running 5:50 pace because his marathon pace is 5:10. Of course he still might have a bad day and more can go wrong the longer the race is.

Interesting takes. I too wondered if he might have benefitted by doing some of the longer stuff on the pavement to callous the legs a bit for 60+ miles on the harder surface. Sounds like it could be a great race overall given the # of other guys who have been running really well. He mentioned it'll be streamed by Hoka. Does anyone have a start time and link?

100k runner wrote:

My money is on Patrick Reagan. I hope he runs under 6:30.

Isn't Patrick injured and out of the race?

Standard Setter wrote:

My old coach ran 6:40 and he never went longer than 5hrs ever in training... also did runs on trail vs. road at times.

Of course not.

Remember that a 6:40 runner covers 10k in 40 minutes.

So 50k are 3:20 hours.

Some training can be on trails but only some.

PR man wrote:

100k runner wrote:

My money is on Patrick Reagan. I hope he runs under 6:30.

Isn't Patrick injured and out of the race?

You know more about that, then I do.

Yeah, I thought this interview was very interesting.

Gotta think Hayden Hawks is the most interesting person in the race, given that he said JFK where he broke Jim's record was his B race for the season and this is his A race.

Also Camille has said on twitter that she's chasing US record and not world record and that she's not at full fitness. Definitely more interesting than her chasing the WR and surely blowing up.

Brah, Hayden is not the most interesting person in this race. His leg speed in comparison to Walmsley is like comparing that unsponsored dude no one ever heard of making the mens marathon olympic team to Kipchoge. Like yeah, they run the same races and stuff. But lol.

You gotta think Walmsley is the only dude with a chance here. And he doesn't even have a chance

Hayden probably has a chance for an excellent performance.

That would be in the sub 7 hour region but probably not faster than 6:40 or so.

Nobody will run sub 6:30 if Patrick Regan is not there.

Hayden 13:51, 28:53

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/hayden-hawks-14377550

I've had classmates that could do ridiculous math problems without the use of paper.

What the F can I say? A very small percentage of the population will always be gifted. And normal humans can't train to get to their level.

dsadasc wrote:

Brah, Hayden is not the most interesting person in this race. His leg speed in comparison to Walmsley is like comparing that unsponsored dude no one ever heard of making the mens marathon olympic team to Kipchoge. Like yeah, they run the same races and stuff. But lol.

You gotta think Walmsley is the only dude with a chance here. And he doesn't even have a chance

Brah, Hayden just beat Walmsley's CR at JFK50 back in late November by 3 minutes...the same course record that Walmsley set by 13 minutes (besting Max King's old CR) in 2016.

I'd say he is in damn good fitness and even Walmsley himself said in the podcast that Hawks is his biggest competition tomorrow.

Write up about the race tomorrow:

https://hoka-carbon-x-100k-record-attempt.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=14231&do=news&news_id=611650&utm_content=bufferc874a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

who the hell is this people

Written highlights of our podcast with Jim with a few snippets you can also listen to if you don't want to listen to whole thing

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/01/jim-walmsley-talks-prior-to-his-100k-world-record-attempt-at-project-carbon-x-2-podcast/