WHY NO BLACK PAGE FOR WALMSLEY!!!

GBohannon wrote:

rojo wrote:

No sub-17, no black page.

Ultra expert,

Rojo

PS. Plus he downplayed how he was going for the WR. WIth those weather conditions, of course he was going for it.

I think you mean sub-14. However, this mistake doesn’t take away from your expertise.

To the eensy weensy teeny tiny mini brain of rojo, 17 and 14 are equal. He can't understand or differentiate any numbers beyond two, and he can't differentiate the words two, too and to.

Pretty disappointed that Walmsley didn't run through the finish line and instead decided to engage with the "fans". He definitely could have knocked a few more seconds off the record if he actually took his job seriously. Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

Libertarian Centrist wrote:

Pretty disappointed that Walmsley didn't run through the finish line and instead decided to engage with the "fans". He definitely could have knocked a few more seconds off the record if he actually took his job seriously. Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

Serious question. How many fans are there at the end of a race like this?

Well, the last finisher can get a reception like this:

https://vimeo.com/132239559

Too many walking breaks . Also, man up and stop eating baked potato during race.

brogan1 wrote:

Libertarian Centrist wrote:

Pretty disappointed that Walmsley didn't run through the finish line and instead decided to engage with the "fans". He definitely could have knocked a few more seconds off the record if he actually took his job seriously. Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

Serious question. How many fans are there at the end of a race like this?

300?

Tollefson beat exactly no one of significance in that race.

Here's some more data for the genius who was more impressed by Tollefon at Laverado. Tollefson did not set a course record. The top 15 men includes no one anyone has heard of outside of Tollefson. I am serious. I follow the sport closely and have not heard of anyone else in the top 15. He beat an unknown Chinese dude by 12 minutes. Most were unsponsored or have small sponsors. The course record is held by someone that no one would have heard of. It's not like its held by Kilian or Francois, who, for the record, Walmsley beat by like an hour and a half last year at states (and he's about an hour and a half better than Kilian's best WS performance as well).

Yeah, it's great he won and he is very fit and strong right now, but in no world was this anywhere close to the same performance as Walmsley. Western States is incredibly competitive because the top 10 come back next year as well as winners of other difficult races throughout the year. Anyone who follows ultra running has heard of everyone in the top 20 at states.

Not a competitive race. Not the GOAT. He has to win a competitive race at the world level or break a real world record to be taken seriously.

Real world records are only credible on the track as all of the course are different. I would never call the fastest time in the marathon a world record...it's a world best. Just like you PR on a track and PB in a marathon.

Also, no one is saying he is the GOAT. He has beaten every other person who has ever run western states, including all of the guys you are talking about...Francois, Kilian, etc. All of the fastest ultra guys run states when they want to because the qualify in other races. Only a creaton would not call western states a world competitive race. No one in the world can run 50 miles faster than him and they haven't in 40 years.

The black page can be given or denied at the brojos discretion exclusively

rojo wrote:

No sub-17, no black page.

Ultra expert,

Rojo

PS. Plus he downplayed how he was going for the WR. WIth those weather conditions, of course he was going for it.

Rojo is non ultra expert.

Let's just say he knows a little more about ultras than 2 month ago.

Because setting the CR at the USA's oldest 100 mile race two years in a row is a little league accomplishment to the people who run this website.

No he hasn't "beaten every other person". He beat a time, not competition. He has consistently struggled when he's faced real competition. Even the Hoka event was a set up as a time trial with no competitive pressure. Only Americans have big heads about Western States. The rest of the world could care less.

Where did your daddy drive you this morning? Assuming it was 20 miles as usual.