Walmsley CRAZY Workout - Will Go Sub 1:04:00

Ackley wrote:

What altitude was this workout?

3,000 ft.

StorylineKing wrote:

The storyline would be that all the track and road pretty boys are too weak and need their clothe diapers changed after a “slow” ultra runner does in 1 month what these road babies work their whole lives for.

What's this crap? Has Jim hired a social media PR guy to troll Letsrun? Or are you bunch just this stupid?

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

sub elite runner wrote:

I'd say this workout puts him right around 1:04. Definitely not 1:02 shape but getting there.

This workout is a good bit faster than most of the workouts 1:01:48 half marathoner Noah Droddy does.

Faster? Noah was doing 5 to 7 mile tempos under 4:50 pace at 5300 feet before his 1:01:48. All at tempo effort. I would say that is much much more impressive than what Walmsley is doing here.

I ran 1:04:48, and I maybe could have done this as a workout, and it would have been a very hard effort.

If he ran controlled and isn’t racing his workouts, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see him break 64 in the HM.

sub elite runner wrote:

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

This workout is a good bit faster than most of the workouts 1:01:48 half marathoner Noah Droddy does.

Faster? Noah was doing 5 to 7 mile tempos under 4:50 pace at 5300 feet before his 1:01:48. All at tempo effort. I would say that is much much more impressive than what Walmsley is doing here.

Relax Noah.

Mizuno fanboy wrote:

StorylineKing wrote:

The storyline would be that all the track and road pretty boys are too weak and need their clothe diapers changed after a “slow” ultra runner does in 1 month what these road babies work their whole lives for.

What's this crap? Has Jim hired a social media PR guy to troll Letsrun? Or are you bunch just this stupid?

Ha! I'm right with you. This is crazy - normally the trolls are commenting in the opposite vein. What has happened here on LetsRun, now ultra runners are trolling!

Honestly just think one of Jim's friends like to troll the board with Walmsley posts. And people keep biting.

Meanwhile, the Brogan Austin's of the world continue to run faster at the actual half and full marathon.

All the Cowboys are a bunch of track and road runners, so they are for sure on here. I guess any publicity is good publicity?

He ran 12 miles with a total of 7 minutes rest at 5:00 average mile pace. Half marathon at 64 is like 4:52/4:53 pace, with zero minutes rest, and 13.1 miles.

If he ran this workout very controlled, then ya he is in good shape and could be around 64 flat in a race situation. But if this was an extremely hard effort I wouldn't bet money on a sub 64. Could happen, but it shouldn't be the expectation.

If Jim could run that pace 2 times back to back with no rest, he'd be 2.2 miles behind Kipchoge running a marathon.

GOML wrote:

If he ran controlled and isn’t racing his workouts, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see him break 64 in the HM.

Jim is a workout chimp, not a race chimp. He sucks against competition. Houston won’t be an exception to this rule.

BangBang Olympics wrote:

Bang bang bang! Jin Walmsley will Beebe well under the 1:04 half qualifier with this workout!

3 mile warm up.

5 Miles: 25:21

2:00 rest

1 Mile: 4:47

3:00 rest

5 Miles: 25:08

2:00 rest

1 Mile: 4:42

3 mile cool down.

All you haters gonna eat the words soon. Jim ain’t getting slower.

This workout is pretty awesome, but he has a history of over-performing in practice.

Plus, lots of guys can run 1:04.

Many run under 1:04 for the first half of their marathon.

Who cares.

Quite Goes the Crowd wrote:

Wonder what all the Jim haters will say now that Jim easily ran under 1:04:00, especially late in a workout with little rest between reps.

Let’s hear it....

Hear what? That his half marathon PR is 68:08?

Jim has said before that he visits LetsRun everyday. What is more intriguing is how he's done these road workouts around a lot of faster long runs. Multiple 20 to 28 milers all in the last three weeks. I don't know how to count the 44 miles in the canyon crap. 4 weeks ago he was only doing rep 800s in 2:28. Must be a quick responder? His recovery has been insane this past month.

Mizuno fanboy wrote:

StorylineKing wrote:

The storyline would be that all the track and road pretty boys are too weak and need their clothe diapers changed after a “slow” ultra runner does in 1 month what these road babies work their whole lives for.

What's this crap? Has Jim hired a social media PR guy to troll Letsrun? Or are you bunch just this stupid?

A lot of people are on here saying that what Jim has done with recent workouts is not that impressive and that a lot of people can do that. But, how many can do it after the big miles he is putting in currently, after a 44 mile run last week, after a season of multiple 100's and other ultras? I expect not many can.

With that, obviously he is now being judged on running under 1:04:00 for the HM but there is a lot of novelty in what Jim is doing. An ultramarathon champion switching over and doing this on the roads..... no road champions would be able to go over to the trail and do the things Jim has done, no way. I think that's where the LetsRun crowd gets confused. They all think that any Trials Qualifier would just dominate the Ultra scene but that is not true, we've seen so many examples of that not translating.

Whether or not Jim runs 1:02 or 1:04, what he's doing is still sensational enough to transcend the sport of ultra running for Americans, and shoot, transcend the World Famous LetsRun Message Board.

If you look at the photos from his recent track workout you can clearly see from his stride that he is going all out. The guy next to him is making it look easy.

UltraFan wrote: An ultramarathon champion switching over and doing this on the roads..... no road champions would be able to go over to the trail and do the things Jim has done, no way.

Not true, Stephen Kiprotich has dominated the likes of the last Ultramarathon heir apparents in Max King and Joe Gray on the trails at the World Mountain Running Championships and that's just Kippy's winter base training where all of these supposed ultra kings get their ass handed to them by the East Africans.

Speaking of Max King, Walmsley won't touch his half PR.

If running 64 will transcend the sport, you've lost touch with reality, runners were going through the first half of a marathon at that pace 40 years ago.

Guys,

Calm down.

I just saw him today, I can see the man is in shape. I can tell. Like really I just saw his facial features, I saw him, the way he looks like and trust me, I can know.