Ryan Hall vs Mike Wardian in the World Marathon Challenge

Ryan Hall's low T levels are in his head. He needs to go back to what he does best.

Averaging 2:44+ four days in a row is amazing. Just doing this in the same location would be tough, but with all the travel and time changes it is hard to comprehend.

any updates on todays results for hall and wardian?

broken arrow wrote:

Averaging 2:44+ four days in a row is amazing. Just doing this in the same location would be tough, but with all the travel and time changes it is hard to comprehend.

Chick Engle does this every week.

asdffee3 wrote:

any updates on todays results for hall and wardian?

MEN

1. Michael Wardian 2:42:35

2. Petr Vabrousek 3:04:39

3. Patrick Charlebois 3:05:20

4. Luke Wigman 3:05:37

5. Martin Molsater 3:37:45

6. Raj Patel 3:39:40

7. Ryan Hall 3:41:41

8. Patrick Cande 3:43:00

9. Ibrar Ali 3:47:20

10. Daniel Palko 3:51:02

11. Xiaobai Li 3:57:13

12. Xiaobin Qiu 4:06:42

13. Eric Xin 4:20:12

14. Winston Fisher 4:32:40

15. John O'Regan 4:44:44

16. Stephen Hearn 4:44:54

17. Matthew Barnett 4:50:10

18. Mauro Garza 4:59:03

19. Yadi Guan 5:05:35

20. Wing Keung Chik 5:08:56

21. Paul Grealish 5:23:42

21. Cristian Sieveking 5:23:42

23. Glen Avery 5:47:56

WOMEN

1. Silvana Camelio 4:08:09

2. Guoping Xie 4:14:04

3. BethAnn Telford 4:18:16

4. Georgina Acons 4:22:24

5. Celene Loo 4:41:00

6. Nahila Hernandez 4:42:29

7. Sinead Kane 4:44:44

8. Judy Scrine 5:26:25

9. Catherine Sun 5:32:11

Ryan looks awful now, he's talking about having to walk and possibly 6 hour marathons coming up, still at it though

So I screwed up earlier saying 20 below freezing. I meant 20 below ZERO (fahrenheit).

thats -20 F. very cold. about -29 C

SloweRyan wrote:

Ryan looks awful now, he's talking about having to walk and possibly 6 hour marathons coming up, still at it though

40 mpw to 183 is a pretty steep jump. Especially when you are 40 lbs over racing weight.

" I wonder how many elites could do this."

Beast mode

One example: At his peak, 2:10 marathoner Brian Sell was doing 165 miles a week and averaging way under 6:00/mile for all those miles. Not quite 183, but pretty close.More importantly his faster workouts during those weeks were all at sub 5-min mile pace (3x3 mi. etc.), and Easy Days at around 5:40 pace. Warm-up and cool down between workouts may have been a little over 6-min pace, but 20-mile long runs would go sub 5:30 most of the way. #beast

Men_be_men wrote:

" I wonder how many elites could do this."

Beast mode

All very impressive, but he wasn't dong it on a crazy sleep/light cycle in all kinds of conditions. Wardian is legit.

elitepusher wrote:

One example: At his peak, 2:10 marathoner Brian Sell was doing 165 miles a week and averaging way under 6:00/mile for all those miles. Not quite 183, but pretty close.

More importantly his faster workouts during those weeks were all at sub 5-min mile pace (3x3 mi. etc.), and Easy Days at around 5:40 pace. Warm-up and cool down between workouts may have been a little over 6-min pace, but 20-mile long runs would go sub 5:30 most of the way.

#beast

Men_be_men wrote:

" I wonder how many elites could do this."

Beast mode

Two things -

1) I agree that any elite marathoner could basically pull this off (and faster) in training during a high mileage block

2) if anything would kill Ryan Hall's desire to make a comeback, this sure will burn him out for running in the future

3) Wardian is 41-42!!??

First 4 in for the Africa Leg

MEN

1. Michael Wardian 2:45:33

2. Patrick Charlebois 2:57:54

3. Luke Wigman 3:01:24

4. Ryan Hall 3:04:56

Short course? How did Hall run so fast when he could barely walk yesterday?

6 hour marathons??? this is getting pathetic. americas fastest marathoner ever is now slower than the average hobby jogger.

i hope he gets paid a lot of money for this act, but still. very sad!

los_pepes wrote:

6 hour marathons??? this is getting pathetic. americas fastest marathoner ever is now slower than the average hobby jogger.

i hope he gets paid a lot of money for this act, but still. very sad!

Uh, no... Hall is raising money, not getting money, moran.

Ryan hall just posted that he woke up today feeling fresh/ like a million bucks.

He's presently on his way to a sub 3, pretty amazing he is doing this after how dogshit he looked, he posted they only got 5 hours of sleep too.

As much crap as everyone wants to talk, let's please consider Ryan is Running low 3 hour marathons consecutively and his longest run was 8 miles and he was only doing 30MPW, no one on this forum could pull that off.