I guess that's not a surprise for anyone, may she recover as quickly as possible. She's a determined lady and I'm sure she'll find a way to make lemonade out of this bitter lemon.
But now...Go Sandy!
Feel bad for her but would honestly love to see a graph that shows milage, speed before LR started focusing on her and subsequent milage/ speed decreases as the attention increased.
I think the tracker thing and the "arrest" was totally shady but I've no doubt she put in serious miles and pushed very hard.
Kinda glad its over as never thought it was gonna end well for her.
Well, I'm glad common sense has prevailed. Best wishes to Mimi for a speedy recovery.
I'll say it again:
Someone remind me...didn't RY's escapade end with a visit to a hospital? Must be the "British Way Out", i.e. Ultra-Brexit.
More news about Mimi's end to her run. Posted at 5 AM Garmin Time, October 18th.
UPDATE
Yesterday morning Mimi had an MRI at the Reid Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. From there she had a follow up appointment a few hours later at the Reid Orthopaedic Centre. We cannot thank the staff enough for arranging these appointments so urgently, ensuring that Mimi received the best possible care as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately Mimi did not receive the news that her or her team wanted to hear. Due to previous meniscus tear surgery Mimi has now been left with no cartilage on the right side of her knee, she also has serious bone odemas and the risk of stress fractures in the knee is high.
You can imagine the unbelievable and acute pain this has been causing Mimi. For her to keep pushing through it the past few days has shown what a truly tenacious woman she is, however there comes a point where medical advice is needed when the pain denotes something more serious.
Mimi has many more races and world record running achievements ahead of her, risking all of that for this transcon run simply isn’t worth it at the risk of serious implications for her knee had she continued.
Mimi is heartbroken and is taking a few days to process what has happened. This has been her dream for many years now and I am sure you can understand how tough the next while will be for her.
I am sure she’ll be in touch with you all as soon as she’s ready. For now, please do send her messages of support as I promise they will help enormously.
She would like to thank her sponsors who have supported her throughout this attempt and her crew.
We’re all gutted but she’ll be back!
Thankyou all
Jenny
SPLITS OCT 18th:
Miles Done: Based on Sandy's 5 mile splits. Mimi is no longer included. **
START OF DAY: Sandy 02:35 AM
As of 03:52 AM: Sandy 5
As of 03:52 AM: Sandy 10
As of 05:09 AM: Sandy 15
As of 06:18 AM: Sandy 20
As of 07:25 AM: Sandy 25
** Mimi Anderson stopped running ended her Run Across America at 07:12 AM on October 16th. She officially ended her run at 5 AM October 18th. See her facebook page for further details regarding a knee injury.
Go Sandy Go! Really amazing stuff. Wish I could witness in person.
And as always, thanks for the splits So far today!
SPLITS OCT 18th: REVISED
Miles Done: Based on Sandy's 5 mile splits. Mimi is no longer included. **
START OF DAY: Sandy 02:35 AM
As of 03:52 AM: Sandy 5
As of 05:09 AM: Sandy 10
As of 06:18 AM: Sandy 15
As of 07:25 AM: Sandy 20
** Mimi Anderson stopped running ended her Run Across America at 07:12 AM on October 16th. She officially ended her run at 5 AM October 18th. See her facebook page for further details regarding a knee injury.
Results wrote:
Go Sandy Go! Really amazing stuff. Wish I could witness in person.
And as always, thanks for the splits So far today!
You are all welcome. I will keep providing them for Sandy.
SMTR wrote:
I'll say it again:
Someone remind me...didn't RY's escapade end with a visit to a hospital? Must be the "British Way Out", i.e. Ultra-Brexit.
Yes he did. Both ended their trans-cons in the same state, Mimi a bit further to the east. RY thought he would impress the Geezers with some sub 6 minute miles. It's interesting how these stunt runners all get injured in no time when they are forced to actually run huge mileage.
St Marker wrote:
Feel bad for her but would honestly love to see a graph that shows milage, speed before LR started focusing on her and subsequent milage/ speed decreases as the attention increased.
I think the tracker thing and the "arrest" was totally shady but I've no doubt she put in serious miles and pushed very hard.
Kinda glad its over as never thought it was gonna end well for her.
Sad, but they did bring this on themselves. She has only her and her team to thank for this. And the worst thing besides the cheating, is that she made her injuries much worse.
Results wrote:
Go Sandy Go! Really amazing stuff. Wish I could witness in person.
And as always, thanks for the splits So far today!
So far today wrote:
You are all welcome. I will keep providing them for Sandy.
The only thing I am sad about is the fact that there will never a scientific report outing Mimi as a cheater. For the gullible British ultra community (which is full of addicts, Muslim converts and slow walkers) she will remain marvelous. I would love to know what the professors who were involved in RY's case think about her crazy cadence data.
Hey Scam you find anything interesting about the LEJOG attempt?
Xctrackrnr wrote:
The only thing I am sad about is the fact that there will never a scientific report outing Mimi as a cheater. For the gullible British ultra community (which is full of addicts, Muslim converts and slow walkers) she will remain marvelous. I would love to know what the professors who were involved in RY's case think about her crazy cadence data.
There was no cheating, get over it.
Why would Mimi have had an knee injury while she was cheating. Doesn't make any sense.
St Marker wrote:
Feel bad for her but would honestly love to see a graph that shows milage, speed before LR started focusing on her and subsequent milage/ speed decreases as the attention increased.
I think the tracker thing and the "arrest" was totally shady but I've no doubt she put in serious miles and pushed very hard.
Kinda glad its over as never thought it was gonna end well for her.
Agreed, this sums up my feelings as well. I'm sad to hear she dropped out, but not surprised, as it was clear things were going poorly for at least a week before this.
I really hope she's able to recover and eventually get back to running. I don't buy into the Mimi hatred at all.
In the end, I still feel her run was most likely legitimate, but there were enough dropouts and anomalies in her data to raise serious questions. I suspect her crew was stretched too thin, or just didn't view data integrity as a top priority, or didn't feel responding to critics was necessary. If they'd kept the tracker batteries charged, provided more videos and photos, and responded to some of the reasonable questions raised on cadence and such, then this could have unfolded very differently.
SPLITS OCT 18th:
Miles Done: Based on Sandy's 5 mile splits. Mimi is no longer included. **
As of 02:35 AM: Sandy 0 (Start of her day)
As of 03:52 AM: Sandy 5
As of 05:09 AM: Sandy 10
As of 06:18 AM: Sandy 15
As of 07:25 AM: Sandy 20
As of 08:32 AM: Sandy 25
** Mimi Anderson stopped her Run Across America at 07:12 AM on October 16th. She officially ended her run at 5 AM on October 18th. See her Facebook page for further details regarding a knee injury.
Hey Scam wrote:
Hey Scam you find anything interesting about the LEJOG attempt?
I have not since it was many years back and there is not much public evidence.
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