Craig Engels tries to overtake Jim Walmsey on a strava leaderboard - gets embarrassed in the process

Engels has better hair.

Embarrassed? Tipped his hat to Walmsley and had some fun. You should try it some time.

Rather than an embarrassment, this seems like a pretty great thing. Engels with an adventurous foray into the unfamiliar, with a gracious and witty post afterwards. I wish more pros would send this type of thing

Kudos to Craig for trying and tipping his hat. Kudos to Jimbo for the friendly banter and invitation to run with Craig some time. Good fun all around. Does it settle the debate of track stars supposedly being able to destroy trail runners on the trails and in the mountains?

Engels is a bum. He talks like he’s some legend or whatever. What’s his claim to fame?

Like even if it was some epic ncaa race where he could lay claim to.

Um. How about the 2019 US 1500M champion?

Doofus

Hate to say it but is this "result" any worse than his track career?

He's going to get crushed by Jakob, Hocker, Nuguse, Kessler, Kerr, and a dozen other up and comers at the 1500. He might as well just do trails.

I dub thee Craig Middleton Engels.

Mid for short.

1500m runner beaten by mountain runner on steep mountain trail, and this is news?

Humbled might be the better word, but I doubt the original poster has much experience with being humble.

Internet troll tries to take down Craig Engels, gets embarrassed

To me it sounds more like that a accomplished track runner uses a trail opportunity to learn something new and make friends with other trail runners.

Unfortunately a typical poster on LRC got embarrassed in the process.

I figured Engels' contract had expired last year, surprised to see he hasn't thrown in the towel yet. He's one of my favorite distance runners so I'm glad to see that he's still around and appears to be planning on running outdoors this year.

You have way too much time on your hands and hate in your heart.

Jim probably set that segment record during a 120 mile week in singles while banging out grand canyon workouts.

18½ minutes at vo2max sounds like a quality workout for this time of year. Maybe Craig will surprise some people in '25.

For his first crack as this, an excellent result. If this was Engels' event of focus, who knows how good he could get - probably very, very good.

This is awesome. Sometimes running fans act like there's only track & nothing else & just say any decent "real" runner could dominate at trail running. People are doing cool things in the ultra scene. Segment is barley over 1 mile & took Walmsley ~16min. You would think a 3:50ish miler with 7:4x 3k & 13-mid 5k PBs could go faster in that amount of time than a 3:48 1500/13:52 5k runner (or at least keep it closer).

Craig will get it next time. This was just a warm up for him.