Great run from Walmsley as USA packs 3 in the Top 10 with Hayden Hawks 5th and David Sinclair 10th, but loses team title to Spain!!
Great run from Walmsley as USA packs 3 in the Top 10 with Hayden Hawks 5th and David Sinclair 10th, but loses team title to Spain!!
Awesome!!
Can't be World Mountain Champ when you have never beaten Kilian the GOAT Jornet in a head to head.
When Bilbo Baggins is outed as a real person holding the one ring to rule them all, his first statement to the press will be:
“I just wish we could have a trail champion that everyone agrees on.”
You can when he doesn't enter the race.
Results. Sinclair doubled, race yesterday too:
https://twitter.com/moxigeno/status/1195746218535727107
Post race interview:
Kilian won the true world championship in Nepal last week, defeating a stacked field of professional trail and mountain athletes, to complete an unbeaten season that included an annihilation of Walmsley over the summer.
Jim won today against a bunch of amateurs from Europe with none of the elite Golden trail contenders in the field. And even then the African teams didn't make it to the startline so it basically all Jim had to do was show up to win.
Kilian - Greatest Mountain and Trail Runner OF ALL TIME
Yuppers, it would be great for Killian or some of the other dudes to line up for these championships to see how things shake down, (seeing Hawks at 5th gives you an idea of the competition here, but still, there are some others who can run it)....but good work by Jim. I'm not a fanboy of his but he's definitely gaining my respect in the last couple years. Not saying he's gonna make the Olympic team but he is a beast on trails and has to be considered perhaps a dark horse or outlying threat in Atlanta. Congrats to him and USA.
Awesome run by Puppi with a close second place!
Yuppers wrote:
(seeing Hawks at 5th gives you an idea of the competition here, but still, there are some others who can run it)
Small difference, but correcting the OP and this, Hawks was actually 6th.
There's no denying that Kilian is king, but this was still a good performance by Jim. Kind of a matter of him doing what he's supposed to do in this field...but he did it at least. I know the Africans are strong in the shorter mountain champs, but are they usually dominant in the longer race?
Ps Kilian vs Jim on a mountain, any distance, Kilian is my pick.
Yuppers wrote:
(seeing Hawks at 5th gives you an idea of the competition here, but still, there are some others who can run it)
Small difference, but correcting the OP and this, Hawks was actually 6th.
Thanks zzzzzz I'm a bit surprised about this result, but am just assuming the other runners brought it, as opposed to thinking Hawks had a bad race. It will be interesting to see what he says about the race.
Nice run by Jim. Francesco Puppi put up a great fight and made it an interesting race.
Hayden had a solid race.
Kilian doesn't tend to run races where he would be representing Spain so you don't see him at the World Mountain Running Championships or the World Trail Running Championships. No African has won the Long Distance Mountain Championships so far. Petro Mamu of Eritrea finished first in 2017 but was DQed for doping.
Great, he finally won something.
Nah wrote:
Can't be World Mountain Champ when you have never beaten Kilian the GOAT Jornet in a head to head.
Agree. The heavy hitters weren’t in this race cause it’s second tier to the classic Mountain distance. Joe Gray would beat Jim. The Ugandans weren’t there. It was a weakly competitive World Championship this year.
No Walmsley fanboy wrote:
Great, he finally won something.
I am anything but a Walmsley "fanboy" but the dude laid down one of the GOAT ultra performances at WS100. Idiots who deny facts like this only reveal their insecurities.
weak world mountain wrote:
Nah wrote:
Can't be World Mountain Champ when you have never beaten Kilian the GOAT Jornet in a head to head.
Agree. The heavy hitters weren’t in this race cause it’s second tier to the classic Mountain distance. Joe Gray would beat Jim. The Ugandans weren’t there. It was a weakly competitive World Championship this year.
Nope. Victim Joe Gray and the doping Ugandans don't do the real mountain runs. They do the short, "road" runs of the mountains.
They're most definitely not in Jim's league.
YMMV wrote:
No Walmsley fanboy wrote:
Great, he finally won something.
I am anything but a Walmsley "fanboy" but the dude laid down one of the GOAT ultra performances at WS100. Idiots who deny facts like this only reveal their insecurities.
This was supposed to be a World Championship. Western States 100 is just an overrated 100 miler which does not get much foreign competition. Walmsely won in a year where the weather was very kind.
Eat more Tufu wrote:
YMMV wrote:
I am anything but a Walmsley "fanboy" but the dude laid down one of the GOAT ultra performances at WS100. Idiots who deny facts like this only reveal their insecurities.
This was supposed to be a World Championship. Western States 100 is just an overrated 100 miler which does not get much foreign competition. Walmsely won in a year where the weather was very kind.
The high temperature at the race finish in Auburn was 83 this year, and 98, (9 degrees above normal) when he broke the course record for the first time in 2018. The previous course record was set in 2012, when the high in Auburn was 71. His 14:09 this year was run in what was classified as a “moderate” snow year, as well. He would have broken 14 hours with 2012 conditions.