Hoka Carbon X project 100k WR Attempt Official Thread (Sponsored by HOKA ONE ONE)

who are the other athletes involved in the project?

Pat Reagan, Tyler Andrews, Hideaki Yamauchi and Yoshiki Takada for the men. Yamauchi has a PR of 6:18 in the 100k, which is about 9 minutes off the WR. Walmsley’s best is 7:05. Reagan has a 6:35 best in the 100k, so I think he’s got a chance also to run a fast time. Andrews has run 2:56 for the 50k, but I don’t believe he’s run a fast 100k.

Walmsley has the slowest 100k PR among the men, so I’m interested to see how he does.

For the woman, Sabrina Little and Aiko Kanematsu are running.

Tyler has run 2:46 on the track for 50k/April 2018

poor Camille is going to have to upgrade from the 4% to the 5% to keep her records

only problem is rmat foam is still kinda heavy, did hoka finally come up with something else?

Wonder if there will be drug testing. Seems Tyler blows up at big events often and Jim is the blow up king when it comes to events with real drug testing. I.e. every world championship and major race he has done outside of WS

I've never seen a press release for a shoe. They are digging a hole for themselves with the hype.

8.5 ounces for men's size 9 is too heavy to have 4% performance even with the carbon spring, part of where the vapors get the 4% is the 3 ounce weight savings, it's 1%+1%+1%+1%

I like the use of the word "mere" lol, 5-6 ounces would be "mere"
8.5 ounces is "yawn" in 2019, it's actually a full ounce heavier than the carbon rocket, lol

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoka-one-one-announces-project-carbon-x-a-100k-world-record-attempt-in-brand-new-carbon-x-shoe-300841571.html

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 zoomzoomzoom wrote:

poor Camille is going to have to upgrade from the 4% to the 5% to keep her records

only problem is rmat foam is still kinda heavy, did hoka finally come up with something else?

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I beat you by about 3 seconds, lol

Did they say May 4th as is this weekend?

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 zoomzoomzoom wrote:

I've never seen a press release for a shoe. They are digging a hole for themselves with the hype.

8.5 ounces for men's size 9 is too heavy to have 4% performance even with the carbon spring, part of where the vapors get the 4% is the 3 ounce weight savings, it's 1%+1%+1%+1%

I like the use of the word "mere" lol, 5-6 ounces would be "mere"
8.5 ounces is "yawn" in 2019, it's actually a full ounce heavier than the carbon rocket, lol

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoka-one-one-announces-project-carbon-x-a-100k-world-record-attempt-in-brand-new-carbon-x-shoe-300841571.html

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My money is on Walms . USA deserves a distance world record .

will it be livecast on youtube like the breaking 2 was for nike?

Literally 5 or 6 people on Earth have ever been "contenders" for the "best 100k runner". It's meaningless.

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Phantasy Star wrote:

Literally 5 or 6 people on Earth have ever been "contenders" for the "best 100k runner". It's meaningless.

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Walms must feel great. He is also going after the 50 mile record. Going to be a barn burner.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7NChNDwH5/