Hi all,
lots still happening behind the scenes on this important matter. One thing that would really progress the narrative is to get a copy of WG's Whoop data from Transcon. He promised the community he would share this, so where is it?
I have made a polite request for it to WG, and his head of running founders at Puresport and the Movement blueprint, Grayson Hart and Harvey Lawton; but WG has just replied with the most appalling abuse, not addressing the question but saying the only thing I ever achieved in running was to soil myself in a race. I don't know what he means, but it feels like deflection.
He has reproduced my letter on Instagram - calling me a loser and a d*ckhead - so I also copy it here. It is a MORE than reasonable request, carried out in a dignified manner:
Dear Will, with Grayson cc'd on email as we've been chatting.
As you know one thing that would make my analysis into your runs of the last four years more authentic would be for them to be ratified by a leading authority, like Loughborough.
They are discussing it closely "in house", but of course such a detailed study would be enormously expensive, and would need to go through their Chancellor Lord Coe, who remains as President of the IAAF.
Loughborough say that a lot of this sort of thing has landed on their desk in the past six years, so when the BBC approached them about it, their ears pricked up.
Anyway, no study would be complete, or fair to Will, without his Whoop data, which he has promised to release to the community. All we have so far is a couple of flashes in a video which we have screenshotted.
One indicated a perfect heart rate of 131 for the week, which is indeed exactly what we would expect, but the other showed an absence of 3.5 hours of running on arguably the toughest day of the challenge, which is less explicable.
This matter won't disappear, so it's important we all work together to give the scientists full data to work with if the project is signed off.
I hope you can help with this, and I wish you all the best for Berlin.
Sincerely, Will
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It will be interesting to see how Berlin goes, and how close he can get to his 3:03pb, or his claimed pb of 2:50:00 in a solo time trial in Battersea Park [with heart rate monitor switched off]