You mean everyone doesn't do this?

goodbye, everybody

i've got to go

one of the best bands ever. much better that burt's beloved beatles.

Jamie Donaldson is a stud! She just decimated the womens Badwater record! I have never met her, but I have heard she is a super nice person (and a better role model than Pam Reed, in my opinion - I really did not like her book where she credits her success in ultra running to her having an eating disorder and doesn't advocate the use of sunscreens -- but I am biased!).

Jamie is an incredibly impressive runner and a really nice person, too. She came to the Delano Park 12 Hour Run last year and won, tying the course record (78 miles, I think) as a training run. I (foolishly) was ahead of her for an hour or two, but she just ran steady all day long, and when everyone else slowed down, she didn't.

I'll be keeping an eye out on her today, but I suspect she'll start moving up through the field and pass most of her competitors around the 100 mile (161 km) mark...

can i just say that i'm not really a fan of jurek? he is obviously a very accomplished runner, but i was not impressed with his recent RW article. but, i'm all for team USA! i've followed jamie's blog since she came to delano. this was long before i even ran! i was just fascinated by ultrarunners; still am, actually...

what time did this start today/will it end tomorrow?

The Runner's World article didn't really do Scott justice, from what I understand, and there was a bit of a dust up on the Ultralist about it. (second-hand info; i didn't get a chance to read the article)

The race started at 3 am CDT. I suspect things will start to get interesting sometime this evening...

He did it right? By my calculations he ran 165 miles... old record was 162?? :D! Sick!

Yep. 266.677km, or 165.7 miles, eclipsing Rae Clark's old record of 162.

That was the first time I've really enjoyed staying up watching constant chatter on the ultralist, and when I decided to call it a night, he had less than 2 hours to go and a hair under 20k to cover to get the record.

Very impressive run, and props to Jurek.

Thanks for posting the link the other day so I could follow the progress of the race. You ultra-runners are some endurance monsters!

Very impressive run, 8:40 pace for 24 hours, even the haters on LetsRun have to be impressed by that!!

i haven't checked the letsrun forum yet about it. i'm sure they'll find a way to hate on it, but hopefully they can at least somewhat appreciate the accomplishment.

(still wishing those letsrun posters who claim ultrarunning is so easy would simply try to run 100 miles...)

Surprisingly enough, there were plenty of good comments about it. I agree with you, 100 miles is hard, no matter how you look at it.

why are you haitin' on me and my letsrun friends? okay, total joke. i rarely look at that website. i did just check it out and the most negativity i found in my 30 seconds of looking was about his vegan diet. let the man eat what he wants! he is a world class athlete and people are trying to say that what he is doing is wrong. wrong - no. weird - yes.

(and, if you're vegan, my apologies for calling you weird. you probably think i'm weird too.)

i just did a quick search of the forum, and there is a little chatter about him being a vegan that has more or less veered off of talking about him, and a still small thread about his run that, as you mentioned, is at least still somewhat polite (although i could see it quickly becoming a DK thread...)

letsrun has its place and is often pretty amusing to scroll through, but on the subject of ultrarunning, there appears to be a massive amount of ignorance. i say that having been in their boat; before i started running trail ultras, the though of "only" having to hold 8 min/mile (or even 10-11 min/mile!) to win a race sounded ludicrously easy. that was...until i started actually running them.

Nevels, there is a massive amount of ignorance about many things ;-) -- however, I like that race results are uploaded almost instantaneously, from all over the world!

And, I love some of the threads, "Deer ...", "Teg doesn't run the 10K", "I broke up with my girlfriend using PowerPoint", etc. they crack me up.

i agree completely; i still use it to stay up to date with the elite track, road, and xc racing at large. it's a great site.

and yes, some of the threads are pretty good. the "Deer..." threads were nice, i'm currently loving the "If Letsrun were around during the American Revolution" thread, and all of the wildly off topic threads are often pretty fun (there are apparently so many ways to break up with people that no sane or halfway considerate person would even think of...)