A new across Australia record or a whiff of Robert Young?

I am pretty sure others have done this faster.

Patrick Malandain for example: 38 days and 3800k

Does Nedd Brockmann has done some ultramarathons before that? If not, I would be highly skeptical of that claim.

Strava looks sus, very little running leading up to the cross Australia run. Maybe he just wasn't recording them all on Strava, but doesn't seem like he would have been ready for a steady diet of 300-400+ miles/week running.

Another suspicious thing is his heart rate data. Doesn't seem to increase when going up big hills.

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Morning Run - Nedd B.'s 80.5 km run

Feet are fucked. And I mean it. Bring on THE WEEKEND BRAH

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I haven't seen anything claimed other than 1st September to 17th October, i.e. 47 days and that it is a fund raising exercise. Couldn't care if he was on a bicycle as long as the funds go to those intended.

So, lying is okay if it justifies a noble goal? A big part of his message is to inspire people to ‘keep moving’ and to ‘feel comfortable being uncomfortable’. That’s rubbish if not true. Have some integrity.
As for the money going to where it’s meant to, yes, that’s all well and good. But how much goes to where it’s meant to? Again, Robert Young is a prime example.
But in an age where integrity means nothing, and followers and likes are all that matters, he’s probably a hero.

Yes, lying can be okay. Like lieing to a small kid that their dog ran away instead of telling the truth that the dog got ran over by a truck and had to be put down for mercy sake.

No that's not what I said. I don't care enough to ask for an investigation since I didn't donate. Those who donated should at least expect funds to go to right cause, and if they prefer their money back because the guy ran short, and/or want to investigate, that's their issue.

Wow this guy got rich off his donations and may have cheated? Cheated an understatement?

Most "charities" are scams with their owners paying themselves big money from the "donations". A charity is simply a owner-for-profit that pays no taxes and virtue signals gullible marks.

I would much rather this transcon runner keep all the money than for a cent to go to the "right cause" of a rich charity owner's personal bank account.

some passing observations from an uninformed person who has literally just read about this 10 minutes ago...

- he started running in 2020 i.e. not very long ago

- but he looks in good shape

- australia is very hot

- 3844km over 47 days is 81km a day, but he says in a video on the BBC website that he was running "100k a day basically". he did have 1-2 days off for treating an injury, and any other breaks like that would put the daily total up a little I suppose.

- if we say he was running 2 marathons a day - 84km. that's very tough to do on consecutive days, never mind 47 days. anybody who has ever run a 100km race will know that they were in no condition to run the same distance again the next day, at least, not at anything more than a walking pace. but he is young and his body isn't creaking so much as your average ultra runner.

- one of the comments here is reporting one day with an average pace of 5:25/km. assuming that is correct, it's quite fast. I did a 100km run at the weekend with 800m of elevation gain and came 2nd with an average pace of 5:30/km, in a tropical climate. you would need to be very fit to sustain anything close to that sort of pace across multiple days, and your body would need to be very resistant to injury.

If you look at his Strava it’s ridiculous with splits well below 5min/km towards the end of 110km days.
Even the Australian Prime Minister has been fooled offering Brockmann praise. There are calls for him to be Australian of the Year. Of course, the media couldn’t work this out.

Doesn't look too suss to me. Could simply be bad/inaccurate HR meter reading (weather looked to be raining, and humid, so poor skin contact?).

This one's simple. Look at his moving time (10:09 hrs) vs elapsed time (13:25 hrs).

If he categorised the run as a race, you'd see more non-uniform splits, accounting for the times he stopped.

Strava looks legit. His moving time makes his pace look quite quick but his elapsed time shows he took frequent rest breaks. He had quite a few days where he clearly struggled. A couple of days of walking and some short days, at least one full day off after 2 low km days with injury issues etc.

If he faked it he did it in a way that makes it seem very believable.

I dont use strava so i cant see the data but if he is stopping often for breaks that would explain the fast speed. If he pauses the watch for the breaks, it will work out the average pace from only the time he is active. And obviously you feel fresher and can go faster after a 30 minute break.

I mean if you work out the average pace from the total 13 hour time rather than the 10 hour active time, the average pace would be a lot slower than 5.xx/km or whatever people are reporting it as.

Not tropical conditions, it's not hot here this time of year. His average pace is only moving time not elapsed time. Most days where he covers 100 kms in around 11 hours moving time he actually records 13 to 14 hours elapsed time. So 2 to 3 hours rest periods during that 100 kms.

Is he legit? No Idea but it certainly looks believable based on his Strava.

At some point these runs need some rules, particularly if they are going to try (and succeed, I guess) in raising millions of dollars and setting records.

Post your route in advance and update it daily and invite anyone out to cheer for you, run with you, bike alongside you, whatever. We should all know where you are and when.

Have live tracking so people can drop by and watch you trotting past.