The World Record attempt to cross Australia starts in under 10 hours with William Goodge attempting to knock 4 days off the 39 day mark of Chris Turnbull.
This is the fourth major runfluencer project in the last week and so far the other three crashed and burned. Paul Johnson stated 500 miles in the Old Six Day Race and did 149 off 3.2 days before quitting. Imo Boddy went for a team GB qualifier for the 24 hour run, but quit after a bizarre and suicidal 3:39 marathon by saying she didn't fancy running around in circles for another 14 hours.
And now in Australia, Eleni Tsingas has followed in Nedd Brockmann's footsteps and announced 1000 miles in 10 days, to smash Yiannis Kouros' record. She has had a tortuous 120k on day 1 and is already limping badly. Not sure if the effort will even be alive at the close of play, which looks like it will take 22 hours.
As many know, due to one of the largest threads in LetsRun history, there are grave concerns about Goodge's adventure runs as he suddenly becomes super world class in them when he his ordinary at best in all his ratified racing off a super high heart rate. But when not ratified or observed his heart rate always plummets to 105 and his speeds are often quicker than any multiday runner in history.
For instance, at Marathon des Sables he ran 32 hours to the winner's 17; but at Moab, his 60 mile splits were 17 27 15 24. That 15 was by far the best in the race, setting numerous course records, off a massively collapsed heart, with a car, a few friends, and total isolation. He ripped through the field from 32nd to 15th.
It is vital that the community tracks his pace and heart rate carefully [it should be in the 120-145 range] as we simply can't have him setting a record that is impossible, as going after fake records in endurance sport is extremely dangerous, costly and damaging.
