Cross-Canada record attempt, 7200K - 66 days. Current record by Al Howie 72 days

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.

Less THEN 110k a day?

You are literally an idiot

Tron wrote:

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

He’s also on a long climb up. Just before Hope if starts to climb and keeps climbing. It’s not crazy step but it’s relentless.

For the person who brought up Steve Fonyo, he was the antithesis to everything that Fox was. Fox intended to raise $1 million in 1980. Since the attempt and the annual Terry Fox runs around the world that take place in September have raised over $700-million. There is a mountain in the Rockies named after him. In a nationwide poll taken by the CBC, Fox beat out all Canadians including ones that had very long careers or accomplished very big things before Fox did. He is revered. There are statues all across the country of him including Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa and other cities...

Fonyo is a disgrace and an embarrassment. No one utters his name and if it came out that he cheated, no one could care less.

As for Proctor, he is about to get into the Coquihalla (Coke a hell a) climb, heading to Kamloops, so he will now meet elevation, potential heat, because it is semi-desert/semi-arid and potentially quick changing temperatures and Merritt, which is always sideways windy.

I think he could be "off pace" until after Calgary....Rockies, elevation, wild temperature swings will affect things. He is from Okotoks which is near Calgary, so he is used to semi-elevation - It will be the 25 days or so from Saskatchewan to Thunder Bay where there is a net downhill (I believe) to Ontario. I remember landing in Saskatoon and could see on the highway heading east so unbelievably far this .5% of a grade downhill the whole way to the horizon....(guessing on the grade).....If he can manage blisters etc etc, he will run faster through the prairies....

Literally than wrote:

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.

Less THEN 110k a day?

You are literally an idiot

7200/66 = 109,091 metres > 110km (nearly a km less). QE MF D

gobble gobble mf

QED is used when you prove something in math btw.

Temperatures look cool for the next few days, below seasonal.

Rolling along on day 3....

Wet Coast wrote:

Temperatures look cool for the next few days, below seasonal.

Rolling along on day 3....

With 10:50 per mile, just a little slower than day 1.

Banana Bread wrote:

Literally than wrote:

Less THEN 110k a day?

You are literally an idiot

7200/66 = 109,091 metres > 110km (nearly a km less). QE MF D

gobble gobble mf

It’s less THAN, not less THEN, yet you thought my post was about math

You are a ftard

Thanks for proving my point wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

7200/66 = 109,091 metres > 110km (nearly a km less). QE MF D

gobble gobble mf

It’s less THAN, not less THEN, yet you thought my post was about math

You are a ftard

What can you expect from a person who eats banana bread?

Forest Gump again wrote:

Wet Coast wrote:

Temperatures look cool for the next few days, below seasonal.

Rolling along on day 3....

With 10:50 per mile, just a little slower than day 1.

https://livetrack.garmin.com/session/7b99a902-b88e-4d5f-8f27-fd545dd8406a/token/68483521AA4D57A786FB88ED2E574E

After reading up on Al Howie, now I'm skeptical it can be done. 10:50/mile? Howie ran a 2:28 marathon once. He surely made better than 10:50/mile pace. I wish him the best, but I think you need a better running background to beat the current record.

Right now, he is coming to a crest, which will have a long flat, then drop into the City of Kamloops. At 67 miles, right now, whistled through Merritt.

Slow though at over 11-m/per mi. but it is mountainous!

Wish him the best BUT wrote:

After reading up on Al Howie, now I'm skeptical it can be done. 10:50/mile? Howie ran a 2:28 marathon once. He surely made better than 10:50/mile pace. I wish him the best, but I think you need a better running background to beat the current record.

That's what I am saying from the start. Just because you had one good 24 hour race, does not mean anything if you do a multi day race of this magnitude. This is a very long haul, much longer than the Trans US crossings.

Dave pace today is down to 12 minute miles (at mile 36).

https://livetrack.garmin.com/session/fd0725df-c527-4a2a-a71f-17f21c9dae0d/token/979DD958111567D33B5C4B623768155E

Forest Gump again wrote:

Wish him the best BUT wrote:

After reading up on Al Howie, now I'm skeptical it can be done. 10:50/mile? Howie ran a 2:28 marathon once. He surely made better than 10:50/mile pace. I wish him the best, but I think you need a better running background to beat the current record.

That's what I am saying from the start. Just because you had one good 24 hour race, does not mean anything if you do a multi day race of this magnitude. This is a very long haul, much longer than the Trans US crossings.

Yeah, regardless of how fast either Dave or Al have gone in “shorter distances”, you can’t really prep for something like this the first time they do it. Just got to hope they have the right base to handle the constant fatigue they will have throughout the run.

I’ve seen Dave do ~2:45 marathon as a random training run (ie, not in race setting) and guessing he’d be at least 10minutes faster if he raced one for real.

Although not relavent to this record, when he was a decathlete he said he was usually sub 11seconds for 100m so had some legit speed at one point

Interesting.

But Marathon times or leg speed have no meaning in multi day ultrarunning.

I wrote here that I think he will be a bit behind schedule or slow until after Calgary as he is dealing with the Rockies, I think if he goes through Revelstoke and Golden etc, he will have trouble move at that pace for a day or so as the climbs are pretty big

Golden is at 1643 meters (5390 feet) where Kamloops and Revelstoke are 400-500m. Roller coaster.

As he moves eastward, the elevation steadily and gradually drops:

Calgary 1045m

Regina 577m

Winnipeg 239m

Thunder Bay 200m

Toronto 76m

Wet Coast wrote:

As he moves eastward, the elevation steadily and gradually drops:

Calgary 1045m

Regina 577m

Winnipeg 239m

Thunder Bay 200m

Toronto 76m

I don 't think that the elevation has much to do with the daily performance. Maybe 1 or 2 miles a day. This are very gradual climbs not the steepness you can expect in a mountain trail race.

Thanks for proving my point wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

7200/66 = 109,091 metres > 110km (nearly a km less). QE MF D

gobble gobble mf

It’s less THAN, not less THEN, yet you thought my post was about math

You are a ftard

On the other hand, you said he is literally an idiot. Since idiot is a mentally handicapped person, it is much more likely that he is figuratively an idiot. As in, he is dumb, but doesnt have a clinical diagnosis. So what you wrote doesnt make you look like the last bastion of intellect on the internet.