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Oct 2020
2:25pm, 15 Oct 2020
6,932 posts
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Northern Exile
Saw he's done L1 in 3:35. That feels quite nippy for something as extreme as this, perhaps he's getting time in the bag?
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Oct 2020
2:46pm, 15 Oct 2020
22,649 posts
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Dave A
Or he’s going to do what the bloke in the summer did. 20 he round 1 then crash and burn.
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Oct 2020
3:56pm, 15 Oct 2020
171 posts
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SimonF
I think he needs to move quicker than he did on his double round otherwise the weekend will be over and he'll have no support left. He's on 3 x 23 hour schedules which I'm sure will slip a little, but he should at least try to be a bit quicker than 54 hours for the first 2 I hope. I'm on round 3, leg 3 and have kept the whole of Saturday and Sunday free :-D.
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Oct 2020
7:47pm, 15 Oct 2020
2,286 posts
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flyingfinn
So two months ago he did 23.09/31.39 for 54.48. Given he needed to recover from that effort where does he think the additional fitness and more importantly speed is going to have come from to support 3 x 23??? That seems a pie in the sky plan quite frankly. Gwynn has shown he has extremely good endurance but what he has always seemed to lack is 'speed' (and from that's a direct observation from running with him). So going faster just means operating further into the 'red' which is never a good idea on something this long. I will be impressed if he beats 4 days (96 hours).
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Oct 2020
7:56pm, 15 Oct 2020
18,189 posts
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Rosehip
Is it even wetter now too?
- have you tried asking SODIron that question on the ultra thread, ff?
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Oct 2020
8:28pm, 15 Oct 2020
2,287 posts
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flyingfinn
Undoubtly it's an awful lot wetter than it was two months ago (and as someone crossed Martcrag Moor three times in five weekends around then it was pretty much wetsuit conditions already in August and it hasn't dried out since) and there's a lot more darkness now. As George Foster proved last weekend the wetness can be overcome once if you're superfit but he was so quick the additional dark wasn't really an issue and over three laps the cumulative effect is going to be a lot more significant.
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Oct 2020
8:32pm, 15 Oct 2020
6,937 posts
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Northern Exile
Interesting looking at his leg 2 splits, he definitely isn't hanging around and is moving at a faster pace than required for a 23-hour round, 37 minutes up Fairfield is decent. I wonder how long he can hold on?
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Oct 2020
8:34pm, 15 Oct 2020
6,938 posts
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Northern Exile
Actually, things seemed to have calmed down on Leg 3 and he's moving at pace you'd expect for 23 hours. Apart from Sgt Man -> High Raise, that seemed to take a bit longer than you'd expect.
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Oct 2020
9:23pm, 15 Oct 2020
2,288 posts
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flyingfinn
Leg 2 would have very much been downwind today.
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Oct 2020
9:25pm, 15 Oct 2020
47,122 posts
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Derby Tup
Cool wind though 
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