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Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by speedgoose »

ryannevius wrote: post #20

Aleksandr's training is public on his Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/26934035 Something to remember is that this is his pace _after_ pit stops, so his actual running pace was faster. Also notable is that this course was kind of terrible, with four 90 degree turns and three 180 degree turns each lap for 209 laps. There's little doubt that he could run > 200 miles on a course with fewer turns.

I didn’t know you could get a watch with more than 24 hours of battery life including GPS tracking (COROS APEX Pro). The accuracy is a bit weird though, the elevation chart doesn’t make sense.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by iancmceachern »

ReptileMan wrote: post #93
elil17 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humans are much more energy efficient than cars, so it was less than 3/4 of a gallon (100 kcal/mile * 200 miles = 20,000 calories = 0.7 gallons of gas or about 6 pounds of body fat). He's probably much more efficient than 100 kcal/mile though.

When I was cycling I was joking that the bike is not much greener than the car, because it burns 4 ribeyes/100km or 17 miles/ribeye.

Side note - comments like this are why I come to HN. Thank you.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by bumby »

BurningFrog wrote: post #19
dmos62 wrote: post #5

I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.

That's why I can't do running. I can't get over the fact that it's a painful way to get from A to A. Some optimizing party of me is always screaming WE COULD JUST HAVE STAYED AT A! Now, if they're is a ball to chase and a game to win, I can run until I fall over...

I was the same way, but it helped that I've more recently made a conscious effort to be process focused instead of outcome focus. Oliver Burkeman's book Four Thousand Weeks was good at reframing for me.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by ck2 »

I'm sure he's clean for classical PED, I mean they must test for that.

But how about things like ADHD drugs?

When I see someone do a "low boil" endurance event that is beyond all others for all of history like a 24 hour record or triple-Ironman, etc. I have to ask why is their brain so different than competitors?

I guess the benchmark is how many other people are even close to his accomplishments?

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by febrianrendak »

yubiox wrote: post #40

I want to run but I cough for hours after running. Doc gave me an inhaler but it doesn't do anything. Any ideas? Help!

If you cough then you needs different method of breathing. I coughs when I breathing through mouth because inhale/exhale make my mouth and throath dry. Try use nose for both.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

travisjungroth wrote: post #108
speakfreely wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone who can run 5 miles at 7:15 pace is a pretty well conditioned athlete. If you can keep that pace for an hour, that shows some determination. Multiple hours is an incredible feat. 24 hours is just suprahuman.

The standard to pass the first phase of US Army Ranger School is 5 miles at 8:00 pace. Those aren't pro runners by any means, but shows a standard for a rather well conditioned group of people. They also need to do 49 push-ups and 59 sit-ups in 2 minutes each, plus 6 pull-ups.

I could easily meet the push up/sit up/pull up bar but I can only run 12 min miles for 5 miles. Pretty interesting how uneven is my conditioning.

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Post by ThePadawan »

BurningFrog wrote: post #19
dmos62 wrote: post #5

I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.

That's why I can't do running. I can't get over the fact that it's a painful way to get from A to A. Some optimizing party of me is always screaming WE COULD JUST HAVE STAYED AT A! Now, if they're is a ball to chase and a game to win, I can run until I fall over...

> I can't get over the fact that it's a painful way to get from A to A. Some optimizing party of me is always screaming WE COULD JUST HAVE STAYED AT A!

I feel absolutely the same... about taking a walk. That seems incredibly pointless, as you say.

However, if I jog the same route, I burn X kcal, and after dieting for a while, I know how much X is, weighed in food. Very tasty food, this long into a diet. That makes it incredibly easy to instead go for that jog.

It's incredibly weird. I can also take a 1h walk no problem to go buy milk at a shop 30min away. That ticks a box, so it's a Job Well Done for my brain.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

twawaaay wrote: post #114
speakfreely wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone who can run 5 miles at 7:15 pace is a pretty well conditioned athlete. If you can keep that pace for an hour, that shows some determination. Multiple hours is an incredible feat. 24 hours is just suprahuman.

I was 35 when I was able to run 10k in 47m on my first season after I lost 26 kg the previous year. This is about about 7:30 minutes per mile. I was also able to run 5k in 21:03 (about 6:47) and at the end of the season a marathon in 4:12:00 (~9:35). I wouldn't consider myself athletic and definitely not "conditioned athlete". I had no prior history of running or taking up any sports of any kind. Actually, I would be…

You ran 900 miles in 6 months but don’t consider yourself athletic? Um ok you might want to revise that evaluation.

Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

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Post by bakuninsbart »

speedgoose wrote: post #121
ryannevius wrote: post #20

Aleksandr's training is public on his Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/26934035 Something to remember is that this is his pace _after_ pit stops, so his actual running pace was faster. Also notable is that this course was kind of terrible, with four 90 degree turns and three 180 degree turns each lap for 209 laps. There's little doubt that he could run > 200 miles on a course with fewer turns.

I didn’t know you could get a watch with more than 24 hours of battery life including GPS tracking (COROS APEX Pro). The accuracy is a bit weird though, the elevation chart doesn’t make sense.

All of the higher-end Garmin watches can do this, it is one of their main selling points. In normal use, I charge mine around once a week.
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