Kouros 24 hour race....over 172 miles NON STOP

I think Kouros is 46, almost 47.....been doing ultras since at least 83...

What is the American Record in the 24 hour run?

Doesn't Mark Godale hold it?

It is always interesting to see the folks who have not done a 100-mile anything assume they can do in in under 24 hours and refer to it as "...only 100 miles..."

I remember finishing a 100k (trails) in 9:17:04 and thinking, "I have 14:42:56 to cover that other 37.8 miles...what on earth is so damned difficult about a 100 miles?" I would find out when I did my first 100-miler. It is something totally separate from the 50k, 50-mile, and 100k distance.

Have fun out there.

Mark Godale holds the road 24-hour record (probably at Olander Park) of 261,454 meters.

Rae Clark has 24-hour track record of 265,932 meters (probably the old Megan's Run in Portland).

I forget my conversions, but I think Mark's is about 162.5 miles, and Rae's is about 165.2 (oddly enough).

Oh, and to be sure I was understood, Jim Fiore was correct about the 24-hour mark he mentioned. The 290km mark was road; the 303km I mentioned was track (in case anyone cares about the subtleties).

Kouros has also run a 2.22 marathon.

He has won the 670mile footrace from Sydney to Melbourne (Australia) several times. His course record is 4 days 20hours), although he has not competed in this race for several years. Whenever he did, the organizers made him start a day after the rest of the field. Otherwise he would string the field out over 2-3 days down the highway.

During one of these races he ran from Sydney to Canberra approx 300KM in just over one day. I have read reports that he cruised at 6min mile pace during some of the dowhill and flat sections of this leg. Even so, he still had over 400 miles to go when he arrived in Canberra after that first day!

I also have a story about Kouros's unique metabolisim. I have not seen this in writing though. His body has been tested, and apparently, his muscles can burn stored glucose for up to 12hours... Therefore, they do not need to break down fats and tissue to "feed the fire" As long as he keeps himself feed and hydrated, he can keep going. Although, there are lots of accounts of how mentally tough this guy is, his performances' must have benefited by this metobolism.

Barry

According to americanultra.org the 303k was track and the 290k was road. I should have been specific.

Ooops, didn't mean to repeat that. I didn't see the bottom of BryanB2's post. Sorry.

I could kick his slow, long-distance-jogging ass in a real race, like an 800, mile or 3K. Loser Greek fool. He should get a life and stop his masochistic ordeals and find out about the thrill of going FAST!! For the most part, Ultra runners are a bunch of recovering drug-addicts who have replaced one addiction for another and who need to kill the pain of life with the pain of running, where there is never enough miles covered. And all runners have some aspect of this in their personality, but compared to Ultra-runners, "normal" runners are quite sane. He should run for the next 5000 hours until he drops dead. Will we cheer then?

(ok, everyone else said good things, so I had to balance this out)

BryanB2:

Thanks for the info.

Also, hats off to John Geesler (NY) for getting his 3rd U.S. 24-hour title. He's a swell dude!!

You bet! John Gessler lives down the valley from me (in St. Johnsville). Unfotunately, the local paper had no info on his win. Of course, they didn't report on Montgomery's 100 meter WR either. I'm sure that they'll completely ignore the Chicago and NYC marathons as well. They do have a nice layout on the local high school football action, though. They're quite proud of it as far as I can tell. (We only get running coverage in the month or so prior to the local big race, the Boilermaker 15k. After that, the well is dry.)

Hey ScottB, did any of the valley papers report on Geesler's title?

...And speaking of insane endurance feats, has anyone ever heard of the Double Deca Triathlon? It's described in Eberle's Endurance Sports Nutrition book. 20 ironman triathlons back-to-back (all of the swims, then all of the biking, then all of the running). Yep, 48 miles of swimming, 1120 miles of biking, and finished off with 524 miles of running. The winner did it in just under 19 days.

That's my definition of "nutty" (in more ways than one).