Tara Langdon's 24 hour tread run to benefit JJ Safehouse

TheOhioState wrote:

Hmmmmmm wrote:

Why no cadence?

Something is fishy

Thanks for bringing this to light, tOSU. You may get your name on the busting cheaters plaque with the ones who busted Litton, Rossi, Young, Agnew, etc.

You can’t hide, cheaters.

Nor stupid. Congratulations, Hmmmdjdj.

I watched her run throughout the day or night. I first posted her running at 40 miles. You never watched.

You realize that she's the reigning 24 hour national champion? North Coast 24 hour at Edgewater Park in Cleveland?

Nope, you just want to discredit her.

Back to your typewriter, kid. If not cadence, then it will be calibration.

How come the North Coast 24 hour at Edgewater Park in Cleveland is a manual entry with no data?

You realize that if she hit mid 140's through better pacing, she'd be one of the better 24's in the country. How many women are covering 150? Who are you?

I'll add that Tara, Jenny Hoffman and a few others will be in the mix to win the title at Edgewater Park in September, the race she won last year.

I guess that might make her first tier.

TheOhioState wrote:

I'll add that Tara, Jenny Hoffman and a few others will be in the mix to win the title at Edgewater Park in September, the race she won last year.

I guess that might make her first tier.

Jill Greathouse will be the real dark horse here

TheOhioState wrote:

Hmmmmmm wrote:

Why no cadence?

Something is fishy

Thanks for bringing this to light, tOSU. You may get your name on the busting cheaters plaque with the ones who busted Litton, Rossi, Young, Agnew, etc.

You can’t hide, cheaters.

Nor stupid. Congratulations, Hmmmdjdj.

I watched her run throughout the day or night. I first posted her running at 40 miles. You never watched.

You realize that she's the reigning 24 hour national champion? North Coast 24 hour at Edgewater Park in Cleveland?

Nope, you just want to discredit her.

Back to your typewriter, kid. If not cadence, then it will be calibration.

Calm down little fella.

I think the mis-calibration has already been addressed.

Also her holding onto the handrails has too.

Easy wrote:

TheOhioState wrote:

Nor stupid. Congratulations, Hmmmdjdj.

I watched her run throughout the day or night. I first posted her running at 40 miles. You never watched.

You realize that she's the reigning 24 hour national champion? North Coast 24 hour at Edgewater Park in Cleveland?

Nope, you just want to discredit her.

Back to your typewriter, kid. If not cadence, then it will be calibration.

Calm down little fella.

I think the mis-calibration has already been addressed.

Also her holding onto the handrails has too.

You watch it there, big guy? No, of course not. Did you see her holding the handrails, or was she posting on her ipod?

Nope. You didn't watch any of it.

No calibration results have been posted, but they will be if Tara seeks to check it. Then it will be on to something else.

Someone was laughing at the map on Strava. I hope they realize she was running on Zwift.

She didn't run the 24 to break a record. She ran to raise money for the domestic abuse shelter. She it's not an official record, but she also knows that she posted a big number after 24 hours of running. If she can have that level of fitness and commitment in September, she's post a big number at Edgewater Park.

She also has a child that requires constant care, which is why she can't dart off to run other races, excepting Northcoast and a few others. That's one of the reasons she wasn't on the tread during the 24.

TheOhioState wrote:

Nope, you just want to discredit her.

Back to your typewriter, kid. If not cadence, then it will be calibration.

Surely you see how these would substantiate a distance claim?

During the entire 24. Rest easy there, folk.

TheOhioState wrote:

That's one of the reasons she wasn't on the tread during the 24.

Ok

Oncewerewarriors wrote:

TheOhioState wrote:

Nope, you just want to discredit her.

Back to your typewriter, kid. If not cadence, then it will be calibration.

Surely you see how these would substantiate a distance claim?

She's not claiming she broke any records. She ran on the tread and saw 161 at the end.

She wanted 140; she got to 150 and killed herself to get 160.

Imagine if that happened to you.

She knew she'd catch grief for her 24, and I knew I'd catch it for posting it on let's run, where all the Robert Youngers would be after me.

I don't care.

What's the true mileage? I don't know, but I do know that it was a phenomenal effort, and that there are only a handful of people who could get on that treadmill, run for 24 and better that number.

How much did she raise for charity?

Karl Hungus wrote:

How much did she raise for charity?

Somebody said, all runners and bikers together: $5000.

Karl Hungus wrote:

How much did she raise for charity?

Probably not a lot, but possibly more since she did the run.

JJ Safehouse is a place where domestic violence victims can be housed and fed. It's a great cause; one I donated to myself.

She got on a treadmill and ran. A number of us followed her on youtube and chatted with her here and there. Her miles were in the 8:15 to 8:30 range for much of the time I watched her. She told me before the run that she was looking for 140, and I thought that that was entirely doable, given her history.

I'm sure she was shocked at the outcome. I remember her posting that she felt better at 100 miles than she had ever felt before. I think she was motivated by the cause, having a great day and having some people sending her positive vibes.

It won't be a record; this is realized. If it's not the calibration, it will be the fact that you can't see her hands all the time, or something else.

I don't think she cares. If you PR the heck out of a race, you'd probably be happy you did it, and not go out there to measure the course. May you would...I don't know.

She's a good person with a very special challenge at home. I have the highest respect for her, and I certainly don't think she's a liar or a cheater. Quite the opposite. She's someone to be admired.

I'm still curious why her other treadmill runs do have cadence, but there was a delay uploading this one and it doesn't? Was the file manipulated

TheOhioState wrote:

I certainly don't think she's a liar or a cheater. Quite the opposite. She's someone to be admired.

I don't know her but it sounds like she has had a fairly severe pill problem and I will just say that it changes their sense of morality. It might be "OK" to have an inflated number because it is for charity.

Don't change their spots wrote:

TheOhioState wrote:

I certainly don't think she's a liar or a cheater. Quite the opposite. She's someone to be admired.

I don't know her but it sounds like she has had a fairly severe pill problem and I will just say that it changes their sense of morality. It might be "OK" to have an inflated number because it is for charity.

You're pretty pitiful.

I don't doubt she ran for 24 hours, and I don't doubt her ability to put up pretty impressive mileage, but there is absolutely no way that she ran what would be very close to a women's world record for 24 hours on a treadmill in her basement while losing over an hour of actual run time. Under ideal conditions, there have only been a handful of American women who have approached that number. Tara is talented, but it's misleading to say that just because she won Northcoast means she's one of the best. There are a number who were at Desert Solstice, Fasttrack, etc that would handily beat her mark from Northcoast. I understand she's not trying to say she has a Guinness record (or any record) and that this was just a fundraiser ultimately, but she also put it out there and so it's fair to criticize when something clearly doesn't meet most people's standards for believability or credibility. It will be interesting to see what she does at the 24 hour race she's signed up for in May.

Sorry not buying it wrote:

There are a number who were at Desert Solstice, Fasttrack, etc that would handily beat her mark from Northcoast..

Only one woman from either Fast Track or Desert Solstice- Megan Alvarado- "handily" beat her mark from last year's North Coast, where Harvey Lewis won in 142.034, and Tara was first female and 3rd overall in 131.448.

Megan Alvarado ran 146.87 at Fast Track this year. Natalie Larson was 2nd female at 111.42.

Whitney Richman ran 133.7 at the 2017 Desert Solstice. Emily Collins was 2nd in 110.3.

It's interesting that people try to disparage Tara's effort, when she had nothing to do with this posting. It's my fault. She just ran for charity and put up a big number. My original post mentioned that she had covered 40 miles and was running for a charity...that's all.

I'm going to ask that this thread be taken down, because she deserves better.

It’s curious that there is no cadence data on this one but there is other other runs.

Also, why did she have “trouble” uploading this one.

She posted a big number because it is not an accurate number.