Ultra Marathons
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13 Feb
1:02pm, 13 Feb 2025
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Gromit
I went for the slightly more "stealth" colourway 
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16 Feb
10:01am, 16 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
Item of kit for sale: fetcheveryone.com/forum/kit-for-sale-free-60945 |
17 Feb
10:43am, 17 Feb 2025
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Sam Jelfs
Karel Sabbe finished the Te Araroa trail earlier, 31 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes to cover just over 3000 km, taking nearly 18 days off the previous record! Lets see how the hardest geezer gets on, he is about 25% of the way in after 14 days...
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17 Feb
10:48am, 17 Feb 2025
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paulcook
Did he say he was after the record? Or is he just brilliant and getting PR and pretending he's doing stuff nobody else is doing?
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17 Feb
11:34am, 17 Feb 2025
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Sam Jelfs
ah actually I am looking at the wrong person, it's not Russ cook that FKT is tracking its Billy Meredith... ignore me
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17 Feb
5:26pm, 17 Feb 2025
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phal
Nothing was mentioned in the hardest geezer (note lack of capitals) thing I saw about him going for a FKT but the wording IMO was written so it sounded like he was having a go at something that was more unique than it is. I think he said 3/4 week for completion along with throwing in some other activities. I thought it sounded like he fancied a nice holiday to NZ and this is a good way to get sponsors to pay for him to do it. Let’s see what the wording is around it when he starts. It’s a bit like when Imo Boddy did her three peaks challenge and her team hadn’t properly researched previous records and attempts and then had to retract a load of stuff half way through when folk started pointing it out that she wasn’t on for a WR / FKT….. |
17 Feb
6:39pm, 17 Feb 2025
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K5 Gus
@phal Out of interest, what was the deal with Imo Boddy's 3 Peaks Challenge attempt ? If you google "3 peaks challenge female record" then her's is the only name I see coming up across dozens of websites, including the FKT website fastestknowntime.com What did she do that she shouldn't have, or not do that she should have done, to claim the record ? |
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17 Feb
9:12pm, 17 Feb 2025
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phal
Initially they were saying that she was heading for a FKT overall and then had to change it to female FKT - the social media team had to back pedal quite a bit with what they had been putting out over Instagram. I’m not taking away from what she has done - it’s bloody amazing - just sometimes the fact that people sometimes go into things without a full understanding or history of what they’d doing. You only need to read a page on the BGR Facebook group to know this is a regular occurrence of how folk can approach things. But when you’re doing something and shouting about it publically, you kind of need to get it right….. |
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18 Feb
7:51am, 18 Feb 2025
6,362 posts
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K5 Gus
Thanks phall, certainly sounds like a major oops moment, not knowing what the current FKT was !!
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