If he decides to run an ultra I hope it's a real race like Comrades, not one of these staged time trial events with pacers.
If he decides to run an ultra I hope it's a real race like Comrades, not one of these staged time trial events with pacers.
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
Yes, I would like to see next year a Walmsley vs. Kipchoge battle at either Western States or Comrades 'Thon.
Kipchoge hasn't run on anything but flat. He'd do ok in comrades but he wouldn't dare a Western states. That's almost as extreme for him as saying he should set up an MMA bout vs McGregor.
busty wrote:
If he decides to run an ultra I hope it's a real race like Comrades, not one of these staged time trial events with pacers.
Kipchoge would never do a staged time trial event with pacers. LOL
I agree with him first running a difficult course for 26.2.
He’s no doubt the🐐 but winning all the World Majors would be a feat that would be hard to replicate even when his WR has been broken. I would love to see him run NYC
What the hell is a 60k or 80k race?
If you took the top 100 marathoners (by time) and gave them a year to train for the Western States 100, my guess is that at least half of them would beat Walmsley. The other half would probably DNF. The only real advantage Walmsley would have over any of them is experience at the distance and on the course.
Walmsley knows how to fuel, hydrate and where to attack that course. That's it.
WS100 not a super technical course, so its not like the top 100 marathoners would have to really learn how to run rocky, mountain terrain. Whatever they don't already know about running on trails, they could learn in a year of day in, day out training. Add in a bit of climbing and they are good to go.
Of course, until any of this actually happens (ie some company throws up some massive $$), it really is all just talk.
Hardloper wrote:
middle school coder wrote:
LOL did you really think this was a good comeback? Literally middle schoolers know how to code nowadays. Like the other guy said if Kipchoge really wanted to, he'd be able to code an Android app in less than a month, and he'd be better than it than you ever would. But you will never run a marathon anywhere near what he can run, no matter how hard you try.
Most people cannot code an app by themselves if their life depended on it
A half century of running nerd stereotypes all neatly displayed here. Throw in some insults about ball sports jocks and complaints about hot girls only wanting guys with upper body muscles, and this could be Exhibit A in a museum dedicated to why running has a bad public image and why runners are viewed as insecure dudes with a little man complex.
100k expert wrote:
I would love to see Kipchoge run a real 100k race.
He could get potentially the World Record. But 100k is a long way and anything can happen even for Kipchoge. It's very likely that he will run into nutrition issues. That is very common with top runners. He could get blisters too. This would be soooo much further than a Marathon.
User name check out. You truly are an expert pointing out that 100k is much further than 42.2km.
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epinion wrote:
User name check out. You truly are an expert pointing out that 100k is much further than 42.2km.
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Thank you.
That's why you need experts.
100k is 2.3 times longer in distance but probably closer to 3 times longer time wise.
That means that Kipchoge would need to run 4 hours longer. That is a lot.
Of course somebody who has never ran more than 10k will not understand that. It needs ultra expertise to figure that out.
I'd like to see him run NYC and Boston in a normal year (fall/spring) instead of Berlin and London.
Then I'd like to see him run Comrades.
Win those three and retire.
asdfasdf wrote:
What the hell is a 60k or 80k race?
60k is nothing, but 80k is almost exactly 50 miles which is a common race distance in the US and not unheard of in the UK.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
If you took the top 100 marathoners (by time) and gave them a year to train for the Western States 100, my guess is that at least half of them would beat Walmsley. The other half would probably DNF. The only real advantage Walmsley would have over any of them is experience at the distance and on the course.
I'd much rather see them enter a "competitive" road 100k like Lake Saroma (and I think it's more likely to happen as well).
On second thought.... I don't think I should. It's too hard for me...
On topic wrote:
asdfasdf wrote:
What the hell is a 60k or 80k race?
60k is nothing, but 80k is almost exactly 50 miles which is a common race distance in the US and not unheard of in the UK.
Only on trails. I am pretty sure Kipchoge will not do a ultra trail race.
James Seth Demoor wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Most people cannot code an app by themselves if their life depended on it
A half century of running nerd stereotypes all neatly displayed here. Throw in some insults about ball sports jocks and complaints about hot girls only wanting guys with upper body muscles, and this could be Exhibit A in a museum dedicated to why running has a bad public image and why runners are viewed as insecure dudes with a little man complex.
It doesn´t get any better when a nerd with severe ADHD put up shoe review videos on youtube.
100k expert wrote:
On topic wrote:
60k is nothing, but 80k is almost exactly 50 miles which is a common race distance in the US and not unheard of in the UK.
Only on trails. I am pretty sure Kipchoge will not do a ultra trail race.
True, but trail being more popular than road is true for every ultra race distance these days.
WR? wrote:
I would love to see this happen. I think he could absolutely destroy a 60k, but a 100k attempt would really silence the "Any elite marathoner could be the best ultramarathon runner if they wanted to" debate one way or another.
Salazar was retired for years when he started training again. Went out and won Comrades. And he was only a 2:08 marathoner, not a 2:01.
WR? wrote:
I would love to see this happen. I think he could absolutely destroy a 60k, but a 100k attempt would really silence the "Any elite marathoner could be the best ultramarathon runner if they wanted to" debate one way or another.
Not a debate that any non-troll makes. A small number of elite marathoners could likely become the best ultra-marathoner, but never heard anyone seriously make the argument that any elite marathoner could do this.
Hardloper wrote:
middle school coder wrote:
LOL did you really think this was a good comeback? Literally middle schoolers know how to code nowadays. Like the other guy said if Kipchoge really wanted to, he'd be able to code an Android app in less than a month, and he'd be better than it than you ever would. But you will never run a marathon anywhere near what he can run, no matter how hard you try.
Most people cannot code an app by themselves if their life depended on it
"coding an app" is a low standard - not all apps are created equally. you appear to want to use this phrase as a stand-in for more complex/intricate programming tasks. poor choice.
likewise, the person who says "Literally middle schoolers know how to code nowadays. " is missing the bigger picture. "knows how to code" is not something you should treat as a binary. there is a vast gap in skill between the worst and best person you could reasonably say "knows how to code". very few middle schoolers, even the talented ones, have acquired a decade or more of experience...
The real question is how Kipchoge would prepare for this. Given his physical condition it might not be unreasonable for him to try one without a long period of ultramarathon-specific preparation. It would be interesting to see how he did in that case, but it would tell us something very different from "what could Eliud Kipchoge do if he applied himself to the task for a sustained period", or "what could a Kipchoge-type talent do in his physical prime" (since he is likely to slip out of it by the time this happens, if he hasn't already).