Courtney passed 2 Cowboys and moved into top 10. What's in the water?
Courtney passed 2 Cowboys and moved into top 10. What's in the water?
Wildcards wrote:
automorphic wrote:
Wow! Has gained 8 minutes vs the CR in the last 16 miles. 27 mins up on the pace.
Is Walmsley on the verge of achieving everything we thought he might here in 104-degree weather?
Either that or an epic collapse. Keep watching.
No kidding. He's been putting a minute per mile on the next few guys (D'Haene, Hammond, Sharman) ever since the really steep uphill starting from El Dorado Creek (52.9). And 30+ seconds per mile on the course record. In what apparently is now 100+ degrees. Seems totally suicidal. On the other hand, he started this at halfway and is now 80 miles in. So he's had an incredible 25 mile stretch:
From El Dorado (52.9) to Rucky Chuck (78)
Walmsley: 3:30
Olsen 2012 CR: 4:03
Walmsley 2016: ~3:58
Walmsley 2017: 7:00 (i.e. he had already bombed)
D'Haene: 4:05-4:10 (estimated)
Hammond: 4:00-4:05 (estimated)
Sharman: 4:10-4:15 (estimated)
Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
That was the river crossing where he fell in in 2016. We have to wait until the next split to see what is up. It is likely Walms crossed that like a little old lady; baby steps, one slow step at a time.
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
That 11 min pace includes a river crossing, right?
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
5 minutes in the 79.8 aid station? I just assumed he spent time in the 78 aid station and that's why his next split was so slow. Not good news for him if he spent that much time in both of them so close together
You're looking at time elapsed dodo. He is still running mid 8s. This is insane
take him down the river wrote:
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
That was the river crossing where he fell in in 2016. We have to wait until the next split to see what is up. It is likely Walms crossed that like a little old lady; baby steps, one slow step at a time.
Ah
fatbody wrote:
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
That 11 min pace includes a river crossing, right?
Yes it does. For comparison, Olson covered that section at 9:26 pace.
csa;mlcs wrote:
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Looks like Jim starting to struggle past the 78 mile mark. 11 min pace from the 78 to 79.8 and then he spent 5 mins in the aide station. 19 mins ahead of record pace leaving the station but he’s starting to fume. Course record looks tough at this point.
5 minutes in the 79.8 aid station? I just assumed he spent time in the 78 aid station and that's why his next split was so slow. Not good news for him if he spent that much time in both of them so close together
Correct. Maybe he’ll pull out some really quick running this next part though. We won’t get an idea of how he’s really doing until 85.
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csa;mlcs wrote:
5 minutes in the 79.8 aid station? I just assumed he spent time in the 78 aid station and that's why his next split was so slow. Not good news for him if he spent that much time in both of them so close together
Correct. Maybe he’ll pull out some really quick running this next part though. We won’t get an idea of how he’s really doing until 85.
Someone mentioned that the longer than necessary station breaks make it seem the he is running this like a set of intervals. Maybe that is what he is doing.
Can't wait for irunfar.com to eat crow.
Walmsley has a long history of weird crap happening to him guys, don't get excited. He still has time to be abducted by aliens, get lost again and get arrested somehow.
The Fap Scientist wrote:
Walmsley has a long history of weird crap happening to him guys, don't get excited. He still has time to be abducted by aliens, get lost again and get arrested somehow.
Good point. If that could all happen at one time to someone it would be Walmsley.
Instead of talking about the course record, isn’t what matters how far 2nd place is behind him? In this heat him taking time to cool down when he has a massive lead seems smart.... or those praying for his failure can continue to see it as a bad thing and hope he falls apart.
How about the race wrote:
Instead of talking about the course record, isn’t what matters how far 2nd place is behind him? In this heat him taking time to cool down when he has a massive lead seems smart.... or those praying for his failure can continue to see it as a bad thing and hope he falls apart.
^ Walms PR Team
The sound inside your head is not always connected to reality. The ground beneath your feet is not always what your feet are running on. The smallest pebble is sometimes the biggest mountain to climb. Will Jim stumble? Will Jim tumble? Will the hurt cave make him crumble? Twenty miles at the end of 100 are wait to be tamed or inflict the pain.
M.A.G.A.
If Walmsley runs from Green Gate to Auburn Lake as fast as Olsen did in 2012 (about 8:30 pace,) we could expect for him to arrive at Auburn Lake at about 8:11 pm ET.
Walms PR Team wrote:
How about the race wrote:
Instead of talking about the course record, isn’t what matters how far 2nd place is behind him? In this heat him taking time to cool down when he has a massive lead seems smart.... or those praying for his failure can continue to see it as a bad thing and hope he falls apart.
^ Walms PR Team
I’m in Canada, idiot, and what’s more, I want Francois to win. I’m just not stupid enough to see his 5 minute break as meaning he’s done and Francois can take over.
TheOhioState wrote:
If Walmsley runs from Green Gate to Auburn Lake as fast as Olsen did in 2012 (about 8:30 pace,) we could expect for him to arrive at Auburn Lake at about 8:11 pm ET.
Similar to what I was thinking. Walmsley should be nearing the Auburn Lake station. Another way of looking at this is that Walmsley would run 1 minute slower than Olsen until the finish and still nab the CR.