SpreadsheetMaker wrote:
Team1.kml wrote:My thoughts as well on the east west thumbnail. I'm not sure about the blip though. I did some filtering and couldn't get more out of it except that it doesn't stray into the north portion of the thumbnail. Agree about the temps and I'm guilty of that, so I'll stick with the range posted.
I think from the thumbnail we have a high certainty of his location at 8:19AM. So, bottom line, he has an absolute maximum of 4 hours, 33 minutes to be sitting at the Laughlin pool about 35 miles away. 7:45 min/miles. Unsupported. Desert. That's total time, not moving time....
Besides, his own data claims he ran 22 of those 35 at 10min/mile. So he closed the remaining half marathon in 0h48m.
The jealous haters just cannot accept another world record!!!
Are there two stories? Markus (I think) received a message saying he ran about 36 miles. That's in the graphic. That is the full distance back to Laughlin from the Hwy 95 segment ending at 8:18am.
The blog says that he cut through the desert and ran over a hill. I've been assuming that the 21.9 miles are a direct continuation following the segment ending at 8:18 and the suggestion was he ran straight through the desert (straight-line path along power line roads). Not sure where I got that idea, but I can't seem to find the evidence for that suggestion right now. Was there something else that suggested he made a cross-desert short cut beside the blog?
Going back to the 36-mile thing, everyone is in agreement that's just ludicrous because the timing doesn't work. We have the 3:42, 21.9 mile segment at 10:06 pace preceding the segment leaving Laughlin. Coincidentally, 8:18 followed by a 3:42 ends at 12:00 noon. So there are 15 miles missing.
15 miles of a hitched ride north on Hwy 95? Then it would have been a 15-minute ride and then he gets dropped off and starts laying down more 10-minute miles all the way back to Laughlin... actually, slower miles for awhile, with some faster ones coming into Laughlin.
This supports the straight east-west thumbnail assumption with the 21.9 mile segment AND fits the timeline. One interesting side effect of this is that he would have been running down Hwy 163 for about 70 minutes before the RV caught and passed him. They would certainly have seen them. Wouldn't there have been a reunion of sorts? Wouldn't the van have slowed and escorted the runner?