UTMB Ultra Trail Mont-Blanc starts in 5 days & 3 hours- predictions etc

Yeah but as we've told a million times by ultra runners the race doesn't start until mile 70 or something, so what would a schmuck jockeying for position the first mile matter at all? Corrals would be counterproductive until ultras become as competitive as major marathons which will never happen.

bearer of bad news wrote:

yeah. wrote:

Now that is just dumb. Nolan's 14ers is brutal. No competition. There is an endless list of brutal courses that are only run as FKTs.

FKT is competition dumbo

You clearly don’t understand what a race is. There are fastest known times for endless niche things that few people try (like fastest mile while juggling), but who cares about any of those things? 15 people in the world try some weird thing and one of them does it the fastest.

It’s not a race and it’s not a competition.

Anton Krupicka will be back next year UTMB

youtu.be/b1_rY4KU7tk?t=2m5s

You are the idiot wrote:

You clearly don’t understand what a race is. There are fastest known times for endless niche things that few people try (like fastest mile while juggling), but who cares about any of those things? 15 people in the world try some weird thing and one of them does it the fastest.

It’s not a race and it’s not a competition.

Stop digging yourself into a hole, with no competition no time limit a course isn't BRUTAL that's the response to the original crap you put out. Admit you're wrong and then we can start arguing about your juggling skills.

bearer of bad news wrote:

Stop digging yourself into a hole, with no competition no time limit a course isn't BRUTAL that's the response to the original crap you put out. Admit you're wrong and then we can start arguing about your juggling skills.

I’m not the original guy you were responding too. I think Hardrock is a joke (and was the first person to say so on this thread). I just also think FKT’s are a joke. If you want to go out on your own to prove something to yourself, great, do it. But then keep it to yourself.

FKT's are okay to me if like for example if Kilian has done it that way I know its a possible legit competitive FKT, but even then who knows. Hardrock's a joke to me too just because I kept hearing for years how tough it was and how the old times were legendary just like you hear how the old JFK50 records were legendary and then tougher competition happened.

\ABCD wrote:

Anton Krupicka will be back next year UTMB

youtu.be/b1_rY4KU7tk?t=2m5s

Hopefully he has top 100 finish left in him.

bearer of bad news wrote:

Yeah but as we've told a million times by ultra runners the race doesn't start until mile 70 or something, so what would a schmuck jockeying for position the first mile matter at all? Corrals would be counterproductive until ultras become as competitive as major marathons which will never happen.

Because a bunch of schmucks knocking the top runners around can put them out of the race, which is exactly what happened.

\ABCD wrote:

Anton Krupicka will be back next year UTMB

Why not Dean Karnazes?

Bo Ho wrote:

\ABCD wrote:

Anton Krupicka will be back next year UTMB

youtu.be/b1_rY4KU7tk?t=2m5s

Hopefully he has top 100 finish left in him.

No he don't. He can't even train consistently anymore. He ruined his body with all this overtraining and stupid Green Mtn. runs.

runner 3225 wrote:

He can't even train consistently anymore. He ruined his body with all this overtraining and stupid Green Mtn. runs.

In what ways did he ruin his body, any permanent injuries?

Have any of the Americans done post race interviews yet?

Piano_Man87 wrote:

Have any of the Americans done post race interviews yet?

Not yet, but some of the Europeans have, including Xavier Thévenard and Francesca Canepa.

bearer of bad news wrote:

Stop digging yourself into a hole, with no competition no time limit a course isn't BRUTAL that's the response to the original crap you put out. Admit you're wrong and then we can start arguing about your juggling skills.

Yes. That is why everyone knows that comrades marathon is more brutal than UTMB. Also, the Berlin marathon is even more brutal, because if you are being honest there isn't really any competition until you get to the world marathon level.

Both of the winners said they were comfortable through the race, and neither one of them had any bad patches.

I think the leading three American men dropped out for the following reasons:

Tollefson - his fall, and the gash on his leg;

Miller - ran too hard, too early, bonked and ran out of energy;

Walmsley - didn't dress well for the cold, the rain, and the changing conditions.

I'm more impressed with Tollefson after his performance this year, and beginning to think he is the best American man who has competed at UTMB recently. Walmsley needs to train and prepare more for the specific conditions at UTMB if he's going to end up doing well there.

Did you see the best of? Watch from 0:40 to 0:60 Same guy sprints at 5:30 min/mile pace at the start with the rest of the elites. He got his 15 minutes of fame. Also, what's the point of the sprint at the start for a 20 hour race for anyone in this?

https://youtu.be/l5vDz29uS0o?t=44

Does it narrow quickly? wrote:

Did you see the best of? Watch from 0:40 to 0:60 Same guy sprints at 5:30 min/mile pace at the start with the rest of the elites. He got his 15 minutes of fame. Also, what's the point of the sprint at the start for a 20 hour race for anyone in this?

That's what people are saying. There are people who get up front who shouldn't be there.