UTMB: JIM WALMSLEY AND AMERICAN RUNNERS GO HOME DEVASTED!!!!1

under pressure. wrote:

No, he's 1 for 7 in major competition. The problem is between his ears.

Exactly.

Jim is a great runner up to 50 miles. But 100 mile races in the mountains is a different ballgame and he has no clue how to play that.

Of course he would beat most of us on shorter courses. Because he is a good runner. But I would line up with him any time in a 100 miler. Chance that I win are at least 50%.

Thanks for that update, true not a smart move. Browning ran well at WS and cam back and won Hardrock (Xavier DQed), but he still ran well and would have been 2nd. I think he basically did nothing between races, as you will have to recover and you will not loose fitness that fast. Walmsley perhaps should have rested for 4 weeks and then trained for 4 weeks with a 2 wet taper. Might have played put better, but we will never know.

broken arrow wrote:

Thanks for that update, true not a smart move. Browning ran well at WS and cam back and won Hardrock (Xavier DQed), but he still ran well and would have been 2nd. I think he basically did nothing between races, as you will have to recover and you will not loose fitness that fast. Walmsley perhaps should have rested for 4 weeks and then trained for 4 weeks with a 2 wet taper. Might have played put better, but we will never know.

Maybe Jim's main problem is, that he does not know how to train.

He is too insecure to take some time off after a big race.

Do we even know why he DNFd?

I saw Jim run at WS this year, an awesome display of running on a very difficult/hot day. I dont know him of course but my guess is that he did not allow enough time to recover from WS before doing his build up for UTMB in Silverton Colorado. I know these elite runners recover faster than mere mortals, but he may have over cooked himself training in Silverton.i

My take:

WS was one of the greatest runners ever by a USA runner. I think everyone-Jim included- didn’t realize the toll it took on his body. He needs to rest up and be ready for more greatness. ????

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Rain happens wrote:

BANG BANG

You're pathetic. Jim Walmsley has the drive and guts to attempt the hardest and most competitive races in the world. Obviously you don't.

So you can´t critizise someone who is better than you? You´re a retard!

Love Romanians wrote:

Some people can actually perform without the Coku Cowboys:

twitter.com/iRunFar/status/1035884016426266624

This guy is a fkin machine! Just kept plowing through the field.

Why letsrun is a cancer to the sport wrote:

Rain happens wrote:

BANG BANG

You're pathetic. Jim Walmsley has the drive and guts to attempt the hardest and most competitive races in the world. Obviously you don't.

He's a win big or go home kind of guy. You see what happens when things go right he puts up a phenomenal time under the conditions at western states that people will talk about for years. When something's off he will crash and burn. I like that better as a spectator than watching some guy who can win but runs below his abilities to finish top 10 twenty times in a row until he's 50 years old and can't walk anymore because he's ran two thousand miles for nothing .

Jim isn't a win big or go home guy. He consistently struggles against competition. I can understand DNFing because of injury, but Jim lacks perseverance and quits because of things real Champions can push through to actually win. Look at the resumes of guys like Xavier and Kilian as examples of real Champions.

Yeah I'm not much into the mind over body thing. If I got pneumonia or feeling nauseous puking and getting the trots I'm quitting fight another day. I'm not a soldier in WWIII and I got to make it to the finish line by 0600 or I'm dead, and even then you aren't going to win from 60th place chasing a guy that's healthy.

bearer of bad news wrote:

He's a win big or go home kind of guy. You see what happens when things go right he puts up a phenomenal time under the conditions at western states that people will talk about for years. When something's off he will crash and burn.

Agreed, when things click he's a real joy to watch. Imho he should have skipped UTMB after the phenomenal WS (like D'Haene) but the event is too big for his sponsors to not show off.

I'm curious to see if he will head to Comrades and road marathons or will give UTMB another try.

MountainRoar wrote:

I'm curious to see if he will head to Comrades and road marathons or will give UTMB another try.

He's said he wants to do Comrades next year and not WS. And he said he might take a shot at a half-marathon to get an Olympic Trials qualifier but didn't seem that committed to that.

But that was all before whatever happened at UTMB.

JW Chicked wrote:

How many times has JW gotten chicked in this event? At his Western States self-inflicted course miscue, and total crash, he got chicked. In 60th+ place he has certainly been passed by more fit, and better prepared, lady runners.

bork

Walmsley is super talented ultrarunner but as many said above, his problems are in his head. He can only time trial 100 miles from the lead. Anytime, he falls behind, through whatever mishaps, he starts falling mentally apart... There is a reason while he only does great in the U.S. where you are allowed pacers on courses. Without them he is utterly lost, mentally I mean. Physically, he is on another level.

If he could overcome it somehow, he'd be unbeatable. I still root for him, amazing runner;)

bearer of bad news wrote:

Why letsrun is a cancer to the sport wrote:

You're pathetic. Jim Walmsley has the drive and guts to attempt the hardest and most competitive races in the world. Obviously you don't.

He's a win big or go home kind of guy. ... When something's off he will crash and burn...

You surely must be talking about Zach Miller that's the guy, in my mind who puts it all on the line in ultras;)

As the prize money and sponsorship money in ultra running has gone up... so has the number of DNFs among elite runners falling behind in major races. Live to fight another (prize money) day is just common sense.

Injuries aside, the increased number of elite drops in the biggest races can't all be explained by that. If there really was an increased number of elite race day injuries too... that would be a much debated fact in itself by now.

Has there been any official explanation of Walmsley's DNF so far?

Kilian: got stung by a bee, he's alergic, had bad reaction

Hernando: hurt his ankle

Tollefson: sustained a deep cut from a fall

Miller: took a fall, I think he hurt a knee

Magda: another fall

Chaverot: hypothermia