30 year old female Norwegian sets new 5k road WR of 14:39. She only runs once a day and skis the rest.

Some skiers do have the highest VO2 max of any athletes. What I found curious was how much improvement she experienced fairly late in her career but we don't really know how much running training she did in the past. Road records are quickly approach track records

portsea57 wrote:

HRE wrote:

Isn't that what the eliptigo is supposed to be?

But, you can't pedal on a static machine for hours! What is needed is a machine that duplicates the running action, but that can be taken out the roads/trails for extended periods to build up cardio-vascular fitness but without the wear and tear of actual running.

Isn't that what the elliptigo is supposed to be?

Subway Surfers wrote:

runderun wrote:

Great time for Grovdal. Looking at the 5000m record now, you've got to think the 5k road record will be down to 14:20-14:25 soon. Maybe Monaco will pay up for Gidey to give it a shot next year.

Yes these are soft records. A Kenyan or Ethiopian could slash 30s of this.

Grovdal's record shouldn't stand it was way more dodgy than Beth Potter's. She had about 8 male pacers, it wasn't a a race from what I saw, whereas Potter actually ran with men but at times was by herself picking off runners a head of her and falling behind others surging. The big thing though is that Grovdal's race had a station wagon with the boot up creating a drafting effect.

Potter has Track best's of 8:53 for 3000, 15:28 for 5000, and 32:03 for 10000, her road best's before the 14:41 5k was 15:24, 32:05 for 10k and 1:13 for the Half Marathon, Good runner, but nothing World Class before the 14:41, Grovdal is as legit as it gets 9:13 for steeple sub 14:51 for 5000 and 31:14 for 10000 and a 30:32 for 10k on the roads.

So not saying either is dodgy, but when I read the Thread Headline 14:39 by a Norwegian, I immediately thought probably Grovdal, when I read Potter ran 14:41 I had to go to Tilastopaja and IAAD/World Athletics to find out who she was.

portsea57 wrote:

HRE wrote:

Isn't that what the eliptigo is supposed to be?

But, you can't pedal on a static machine for hours! What is needed is a machine that duplicates the running action, but that can be taken out the roads/trails for extended periods to build up cardio-vascular fitness but without the wear and tear of actual running.

It's not a static machine:

Mary Slaney said she had lost her running speed from diminished 'push off' due to all of the calf surgeries over the years, so she took up the ElliptiGO, and was participating in ElliptiGO races a few years ago.

Beth Potter is very well known here - posts about her going back to 2014.

https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/tag/beth-potter/

+1 , Mr. Burke, I am pretty much convinced that the course on which Potter, ran 1441 was short.

12m too short.