Interesting post from Will C on the facebook group ():
Hi all,
An update from me, now safely back in the UK. With great regret WG’s heart rates have returned to their physiologically impossible levels of before my visit. This all appears like a child’s game.
In short, his heart rates for the challenge look like this:
Day 1: His HR is always fine on day 1 of these challenges. Never a blemish.
Days 2-12 his heart crashes to circa 110s. At which point I stringently contact WG and crew and told them to show me a pulse.
Day 13: HR 138 – the rocket works.
Days 14-16 things markedly tail off again.
Day 17 - in light of my saying that I’ll report them to the authorities if they don’t behave, WG has his worst day of the challenge with just 76k at a pace of 8:34. His HR of 130 is clean though, considering the weak pace.
Things tail off again, as the pace rockets to 7:45 but at a slower heart rate of 126.
His HR for my 6 day visit are fine: 143, 137, 135, 119 [raining: walked the entire day, data clean], 129, 126 [another day of walking due to rain].
But then on day 28 after my confirmed departure: the pace rockets to a searing world class level of 7:06 but at an HR of just 119 – 7bpm quicker than when he walked the entire day before for 16kms less. And he follows up with a 120 yesterday, with his rate twice crashing.
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Another reason for my visit was to see how he was achieving these amazing second half of days. And quite frankly, he wasn’t. He walked some 90% of the second half of days that I was there, as evidenced by his splits for each half of distance – discounting the Nucalm nap of course:
The two days before I arrived saw two spectacular negative splits:
5:54 and 5:40
6:00 and 5:52
These negative splits are incredibly rare in running and all but unseen in multiday, and he is peeling two off back to back.
But when I arrived, to see how in the world he’s speeding up of a day, here are his splits:
5:09 and 5:47
4:53 and 5:59
4:54 and 5:44
5:22 and 5:33 [rain, straight walk, still a slow down]
5:32 and 6:10
5:00 and 5:37 [more rain and straight walking]
5:12 and 6:13 [day that I leave for UK]
As can be seen, these figures show someone fading throughout the day in a 100% pure manner than what one would expect on a multiday, with no chance of an even or negative split.
Let’s take a Jogle split for Lawson and Molinaro [both day 6]:
7:19 and 7:49
7:04 and 7:38
Both showing the perfect natural fade that Goodge also does under observation.
But then, after my departure, it’s happy hour, and straight back to negative splitting:
5:18 and 5:10.
Clearly part one was a major struggle, but then a big pick up in pace over part two as his heart dropped to a completely implausible range of 88-112 for the last 20 miles, having been at 116-151 for miles 2-29.
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The abuse to me from WG and crew is as extreme as it gets. Balenger screamed at me multiple times on camera that I only care about this because I, “have a hard-on for a dead man,” which is one of the most unsettling and offensive insults I’ve ever heard.
Goodge shouted at me to go and do something to my wife. I didn’t catch what, but Mark who was there, said to him: “no Will, you mustn’t, you mustn’t.”
Unfortunately, I had to call off my observation of WG short by around 1.5 days, because on day 26 he became unhinged and started to threaten me physically. At one stage he suddenly marched straight out in front of my car forcing me to a sudden stop and then came and lurched for the driver’s door handle. Fortunately the car had an autolock on it.
A little later I saw him pick up a dark object from the grass verge which looked like a rock and concerned he could hurl it at the car, I threw it into reverse and gave him a wide berth for the next four hours. But when I did risk a drive by, he whirled around and still carrying the rock hurled it at the car from point blank range, where it made a loud crack on the side. Mark and James witnessed this.
I then imposed a 250 metre radius around him for my safety, but he would still scream the worst possible abuse at me from afar, pictured, when all I was doing was acting as a witness and observer to an attempt on a national record that had stood for 54 years.
Their youtube video for this week attempts to paint me in the worst possible light, but fortunately people are seeing through it. The crew were saying I’m mad for running up and down the course, when all I was doing was putting in 30-40 miles worth of training whilst waiting for WG to appear, as I’d tend to drive 3 miles ahead and wait.
The “major development” I have spoken of continues to grow in stature and has now become acute. I shall publicly release it here, at noon UK time, on Wednesday 3 May. I am just tying up its research.
My full report will follow in due course, but I need to see what the response is to the development, and it may just be better to let the run play out in full as the report’s stats would become dated the moment they landed.
Until Weds,
Will