"who cares, it's not like stud runners do that race
cool course. cool history. cool race director though - i'm tempted to go watch it after seeing the documentary and reading about some of the lore"
Everything about the race is cool except the runners who actually participate. Cool story, bro.
I had no idea people "ghost" each other in the Barkley race. So Garry stalked someone for the race because he didn't have the navigational skills to proceed on his own? Is this a sign of good race tactics or poor research and preparedness for the event? Probably both.
Ginger Runner has been promoting a documentary on this year's race. It should be a clean production. Him, Billy Yang Jamil Coury make great videos. I would love to see that kind of effort for road running documentaries for different races and athletes. It's a shame people give ultra runners a hard time about always making a video and self-promoting but it's amazing for the fan base and popularity of the sport.
He gets his massive ego tangled in the undergrowth and has to be cut free. DNF
ddope wrote:
Who dopes more Zablocki or Wardian?
Can't speak for Wardian, but how could Zablocki dope if he competes in decent sized marathons every month. Many of which drug test as evidenced by the fact that he has been elevated finishing place based on others being caught.....
Tomato Tomato wrote:
ddope wrote:Who dopes more Zablocki or Wardian?
Can't speak for Wardian, but how could Zablocki dope if he competes in decent sized marathons every month. Many of which drug test as evidenced by the fact that he has been elevated finishing place based on others being caught.....
The dude is a doctor, I'm sure he can keep himself under the limits and beat the tests.
ddope wrote:
Who dopes more Zablocki or Wardian?
Got it. Anyone who is faster than you must dope. I would love for you to say this in person to either of these two...but you won't because you are probably a scrawny high school kid who lives in his parents basement and will post random accusations all day.
dr zab wrote:
Tomato Tomato wrote:Can't speak for Wardian, but how could Zablocki dope if he competes in decent sized marathons every month. Many of which drug test as evidenced by the fact that he has been elevated finishing place based on others being caught.....
The dude is a doctor, I'm sure he can keep himself under the limits and beat the tests.
Will is that you?
"Ghosting" Gary may not be the best decision for anyone and I bet that Wardian gets scraped/dropped on the first off-trail descent.
Alternative prediction wrote:
He gets his massive ego tangled in the undergrowth and has to be cut free. DNF
Have ever met Mike?
reed wrote:
2 loops. I doubt he's prepared for the navigation and vert. distance doesn't even matter
He has been working on it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BROhJomDCoZ/?taken-by=mikewardianIf you follow him on twitter, you can see he has been training/researching the race a lot.
That's good. I imagine he's nervous and excited at the same time for a new challenge. I'm rooting for him the most since he's the professional underdog. I hope he finishes.
I've never met the guy, but did come across him at a major race last year. He was running with a top end masters runner from Virginia. We were all together for a while, and it seems pretty evident to Wardian was focused more on keeping the other runner company on a challenging race effort than he was maxing out his racing opportunity. I put in a pretty big surge and left those guys behind. My ability to drop them was facilitated at least in part by a couple of factors.
First, the other guy was a couple of weeks out from a major marathon and his taper had not yet taken hold - he was running this race as a last fitness test and was pretty deep into a pretty dark place.
Second, Wardian seemed to have little concern about whether another masters runner was going to drop him - he was there for the purpose of running with one of his guys, he felt no need to respond to something unrelated to his purpose even though I fully expect that he could have (although I had no idea who he was at the time). That does not strike me as the kind of thing a guy with a huge ego would have done.
That's good to hear. I don't think the physical exertion will be too much of a problem, maybe the vert. The guy runs races most weekends so the marathon won't affect him at all really. I hope he finishes but he'll have to have some help (shadowing) if he wants to make it to every book
So he hasn't completed one loop and it's been over 12 hours... No updates either.
Update 30 minutes ago from Facebook has his wife saying someone is now on foot looking for him up the trail and others are in a car looking for him. He was last seen celebrating after finding book 4 of 13.
LMAPCOPTER - He didn't even make it a single LOOP.
He was lost for 15 hours but all is well and will be back in camp soon. Is going out for another loop even an option at this point??
Is Mike LOST in the woods during his ULTRAMARATHON…AGAIN???
Slow + Inflexible + Hypoglycemic + Stupid = ULTRARUNNER!!!
Mike needs to talk to outside runner to learn from an expert on getting LOST in the woods during a race.
Oh boy Mike.
How epic would it be if as an April Fools joke, Wardian went back to his hotel and hid for 2 days and a massive hunt to find him was deployed as it was suspected he was hurt and lost. He emerges from his room after 2 days and gets on FB Live and is like "LOOOOOOOOOL OWNED".
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