Not only is Dave Proctor going for the record, but he is also raising money for rare disease....so I don't mind posting....
Al Howie is a legend who once ran from Vancouver to Edmonton (1000K +/-) to race the Edmonton marathon, won it, ran back....going to be a tough record to beat at 108K per day:
http://athleticsillustrated.com/video/dave-proctor-cross-canada-record-attempt-video-interview/
I trust the LR sleuths will be scrutinizing strava and all that crap to see whether this guy's legit and not just another charity-narcissist...
It will be interesting to see how far Dave Proctor will get.
I think he is too optimistic of what he can do.
A podcast with him is here:
http://tenjunkmiles.libsyn.com/long-run-55-dave-proctor
https://www.facebook.com/OutrunRare/
This garmin can be seen here:
Markus wrote:
It will be interesting to see how far Dave Proctor will get.
I think he is too optimistic of what he can do.
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This guy is legit and he definitely has the resume that he may be able to set the record. He has some distance records already and has run a hell of a lot more than 108k in 24 hours many times. It’s actual not a long distance for him in 24 hours. But, yes, the issue is doing it for so many days in a row. Still he’s also got great motivation which should help - raising money for a good cause (rare disease) and with his son suffering from a rare disease (RECA). I hope he does it and will be following.
108 k a day wrote:
This guy is legit and he definitely has the resume that he may be able to set the record. He has some distance records already and has run a hell of a lot more than 108k in 24 hours many times. It’s actual not a long distance for him in 24 hours. But, yes, the issue is doing it for so many days in a row. Still he’s also got great motivation which should help - raising money for a good cause (rare disease) and with his son suffering from a rare disease (RECA). I hope he does it and will be following.
Dave Proctor is a legit runner but I think he overestimates what he can do over 66 days on a daily basis.
As always raising money for a good cause has nothing to do with the ability to cover great distances. Dave has scheduled already 30 events. I think that will get him in trouble because you can't plan your record attempt around appearances for your good cause.
I also like to point out that Dave did not do well in his 6 day race he tried. Went out too fast and couldn't maintain that speed.
Yesterday he did 87.81 miles, which is a lot if you "only" have to do 67.8 miles per day.
Current record holder Al Howie was one of the most accomplished ultrarunners and his Trans Con record through Canada is one of the all time great performances in Ultrarunning. It has to be seen, if a rookie like Dave Proctor ( in multidays) can pull this off.
His strava data is here:
https://www.strava.com/activities/1666892655Yes Al Howie is a bona-fide legend of epic proportions. The charity (for his son) is a nice touch and nothing wrong with it, but yes, should rest when not running.
Yesterday he had a break as he ran from Victoria to Sidney, then a near two-hour rest as he boarded a ferry to Vancouver, then ran from there. Perhaps that is why he ran that far (and being day 1 of course).....
Markus wrote:
108 k a day wrote:
This guy is legit and he definitely has the resume that he may be able to set the record. He has some distance records already and has run a hell of a lot more than 108k in 24 hours many times. It’s actual not a long distance for him in 24 hours. But, yes, the issue is doing it for so many days in a row. Still he’s also got great motivation which should help - raising money for a good cause (rare disease) and with his son suffering from a rare disease (RECA). I hope he does it and will be following.
Dave Proctor is a legit runner but I think he overestimates what he can do over 66 days on a daily basis.
As always raising money for a good cause has nothing to do with the ability to cover great distances. Dave has scheduled already 30 events. I think that will get him in trouble because you can't plan your record attempt around appearances for your good cause.
I also like to point out that Dave did not do well in his 6 day race he tried. Went out too fast and couldn't maintain that speed.
Yesterday he did 87.81 miles, which is a lot if you "only" have to do 67.8 miles per day.
Current record holder Al Howie was one of the most accomplished ultrarunners and his Trans Con record through Canada is one of the all time great performances in Ultrarunning. It has to be seen, if a rookie like Dave Proctor ( in multidays) can pull this off.
His strava data is here:
https://www.strava.com/activities/1666892655
Well, most those events he has scheduled are basically part of his run though. Its not like he is running 108km then going off to some event for a couple hours 30 times. At the moment he does have all 66 days planned with i think the shortest being around 80km and as high as 150km days. With that said, I know him fairly well and think he would adjust accordingly if current schedule isn't working.
Also the 6 day race wasn't because he went out to fast...rather he had an infected blister which forced him to withdraw.
Although I do think yesterday’s pace 4:54/km may be a bit quick in the long run
This will be fun to watch.
One thing I've thought about is consitency in record attempts like this is really key. Just like in a normal attempt, you don't want to fade or have too many ups and downs in effort. He shouldn't start off that fast. It's like the marathoner trying to bank time in the first miles, it never helps.
No banking wrote:
This will be fun to watch.
One thing I've thought about is consitency in record attempts like this is really key. Just like in a normal attempt, you don't want to fade or have too many ups and downs in effort. He shouldn't start off that fast. It's like the marathoner trying to bank time in the first miles, it never helps.
Here is today's live tracking
https://livetrack.garmin.com/session/2e9d0c7e-98ea-4794-b304-0059bb23b907/token/D6478C9DE97E8DB31834738AB48B26Looks slower than yesterday
He's in a beautiful part of BC right now. Last time I ran in that area was in a road relay in the early 1980s, Haney to Harrison Hot Springs. Teams of ten covered the 100k in legs of various distances; Al Howie ran the whole thing as a team of one and was sitting in the hotel lobby having a beer as our team entered for the banquet.
Hoser, eh wrote:
He's in a beautiful part of BC right now. Last time I ran in that area was in a road relay in the early 1980s, Haney to Harrison Hot Springs. Teams of ten covered the 100k in legs of various distances; Al Howie ran the whole thing as a team of one and was sitting in the hotel lobby having a beer as our team entered for the banquet.
Yeah, it's flat and nice now, but he's about to start climbing up. He's in for a long slow climb for the rest of his day soon.
Tron wrote:
Well, most those events he has scheduled are basically part of his run though. Its not like he is running 108km then going off to some event for a couple hours 30 times. At the moment he does have all 66 days planned with i think the shortest being around 80km and as high as 150km days. With that said, I know him fairly well and think he would adjust accordingly if current schedule isn't working.
Also the 6 day race wasn't because he went out to fast...rather he had an infected blister which forced him to withdraw.
If Dave isn't able to talk care of his blisters, is even one more point of being concerned.
That brought even Al Howie down in the TransAm race in 1992 when he wasn't able to take care of his feet.
King of blisters wrote:
If Dave isn't able to talk care of his blisters, is even one more point of being concerned.
That brought even Al Howie down in the TransAm race in 1992 when he wasn't able to take care of his feet.
He actually covered this in his last blog post, so he is aware of the feet issue. Would be hard to imagine any ultra runner wouldn't be.
His goal does seem overly ambitious, why break the record by 6 days? His previous best for 6 days was 601km, now he wants to run faster than that pace for 66 days? Will be interesting to see what happens after the first week of running...
It looks like he is a little slower today. What happened?
Karl Meyer wrote:
It looks like he is a little slower today. What happened?
as I mentioned above, i think he was too eager yesterday with his sub 5:00/km pace. Hopefully he is just taking it easy today to get back on track
covered this wrote:
King of blisters wrote:
If Dave isn't able to talk care of his blisters, is even one more point of being concerned.
That brought even Al Howie down in the TransAm race in 1992 when he wasn't able to take care of his feet.
He actually covered this in his last blog post, so he is aware of the feet issue. Would be hard to imagine any ultra runner wouldn't be.
His goal does seem overly ambitious, why break the record by 6 days? His previous best for 6 days was 601km, now he wants to run faster than that pace for 66 days? Will be interesting to see what happens after the first week of running...
To be fair, that best of 601km was only after he dropped out 4 days in from that blister issue so not really a faster pace than that
his website talks about the Across the Years where he had his issues
https://runproctor.wordpress.com/I'll admit Jim Wamsley would have beaten me by nearly 3 hours if I done Western States with him. But records like these cross UK, cross USA, cross Finland etc are soft as fukk. It would be easy to run 7200 in 66 days, less then 110k a day. Just run 12k/hour for 9 hrs a day. Divide it into 3 runs. Plenty of rest and food in between. You just need to be rich and be able to afford a long holiday like this.
Banana Bread wrote:
I'll admit Jim Wamsley would have beaten me by nearly 3 hours if I done Western States with him. But records like these cross UK, cross USA, cross Finland etc are soft as fukk. It would be easy to run 7200 in 66 days, less then 110k a day. Just run 12k/hour for 9 hrs a day. Divide it into 3 runs. Plenty of rest and food in between. You just need to be rich and be able to afford a long holiday like this.
Banana Bread have you ever run anything besides your local 5k?
Your statement shows that you have no clue about multi day running.
It will be easier now (2018) that all the polar bears have died off from global warming, and he won't have to spend so much time evading them.