Any Ultrarunners out there? Yiannis Korous runs 254km in Day 1 of 6 day race

Anyone who doesn't respect ultra runners must respect this man. He's beyond amazing. I'm in awe of what he's done career-wise, and now, at 49 years old....wow.

usually they're just slow washed up marathoners...but this guy's a f***ign beast

thats like 4 4:30 or faster marathons....jesus

I bet this man can maintain an erection for at least 11 hours, probably while running for at least 7 of those.

you confuse him with jason rexing

Umm, it's SIX sub-4 marathons. How many hours of the day do you run in a 6-day race anyway?

As many as you want. Theories and practices of naps, long naps, no naps, are just as much discussed for multiday races as speed and strength are for 'regular' running events.

Nutrition gets to be a big problem. Stomachs can get cranky after a while.

To put 254k on Day 1 (of 6) in another light, Steve Peterson just won the American 24Hr Track Nats with 238km and Pam Reed was 7th with 216km. Also Dean Karnezes was invited to run in the 24Hr World Cup back in July and ran 219km.

I think Yiannis will only sleep about 5hrs or so in total over the six days, this ia about what he used to do, but who knows?

pete

I respect this guy but not jurek.

punk runner wrote:

I respect this guy but not jurek.

I'm sure Jurek doesn't give a sh!t.

Nice call Ron

I was going to ask why he didn't respect Jurek as I couldn't think of any meaningful reasons but your post said it all

pete

Kouros went through 500 km in 57h 54m 12s.

At 66 hours, he had covered 547.6 km and was more than 120 km ahead of everyone else.

Wasn't Dean K trying to do 300 in 72 hours. Korous is insane. Thanks to the posters with updates.

Can you say 'juiced'?

23 Nov 0905

Kouros has covered 570km and is looking good to have 590km completed by lunchtime today which is the half way mark. The older guys in the race are all doing well. Alby Clarke has covered 178.4km, Andy Lovy has covered 197.6km, Ken Matchett 222.8km and Stan Miskin has covered 199.2

What is the course that these guys run...is it just a huge loop or an actual course that they run repeatedly?

do they test for epo/other performance enhancers or not? honestly i think its pretty ridiculous regardless

man, he isnt juiced, the guy has won the spartathalon several times, you guys think that leadville and western statss are so hard, look up the spartathalon.

Yiannis Kouros is a most impressive runner.

From the site:

The 20th Cliff Young Australian 6-Day race is being held at the Memorial Square, Colac from the 20th to the 26th November, 2005.

There are thirty six entrants entered for the race.

The favourite for this year’s race is Yiannis Kouros from Greece. He holds the World Record for the 6-day track at 1023km, World record for the 24hr event at 303km and was a multi-winner of the Sydney to Melbourne Westfield Run.

The second favourite for the race will be Claude Hardel from France. Earlier this year, he ran 923km in a 6-day race in Germany and has also won a 303km Desert Race in the Sahara.

There are five female runners in the race this year. The favourites would be Dawn Parris from Victoria and Elvira Janosi from Hungary. They have run in fifteen Colac 6-day races between them. Deb DeWilliams from Victoria is back for he second attempt at the race. Deb became the first women to walk around Australia last year and is entering the race this year as a runner.

The race will see the first indigenous Australian to compete in a 6-day race in Australia. Seventy year old, Alby Clarke from Warrnambool will be entering. Alby is an accomplished bike rider and will be using this event as a warm-up for a bike ride from Adelaide to Darwin.

There are six runners in the race that are over seventy years old. They are Ken Matchett (83), Stan Miskin (80), Andy Lovy(70), Don McKechnie(72), George Audley(70) and Alby Clarke(70)

The race can be followed at

www.sixdayrace.org.au

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Progress reports:

http://sixdayrace.org.au/colac/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=48