Congrats to new British 1 hour track record holder, Alice Wright

Alice Wright is training for 2021 Valencia Marathon in Spain

https://www.nazelite.com/racing/

This is like 2:28 marathon pace. Horribly soft record.

Well done to Alice and NAZ Elite.

Paula Radcliffe did this 2-3 times a week on dirt at altitude.

Hoping she has a solid race in Valencia after getting over done injury trouble the last couple years. Was excited to see her pro career after watching her at New Mexico 👍🏼

If she had gone 5k more, that would be a 1:14 half marathon.

Nothing to see here. More NAZ Hoka hype.

Just wait till she’s dropped from the group. It’ll happen.

For more context: Paula Radcliffe's recognized/unaided UK half marathon record of 1:06:47 would put her at 18.95 km in 1 hour if we assume even pacing.

horribly soft record. I know it's not a regularly run event but I'm amazed the record lasted so long, or that this new one is only 74min/HM pace.

I'm actually kind of shocked that NAZ would even publicize this "record". There are many many dozens of unsponsored women that could crush this 17050m mark. Even if this is a marathon pace workout/tune-up, it's a bad performance for a professional. Alice has way more potential than this effort displayed. What's going on in that training group? She should be running at least a 70 minute half marathon by now.

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I'm actually kind of shocked that NAZ would even publicize this "record". There are many many dozens of unsponsored women that could crush this 17050m mark. Even if this is a marathon pace workout/tune-up, it's a bad performance for a professional. Alice has way more potential than this effort displayed. What's going on in that training group? She should be running at least a 70 minute half marathon by now.

God, you people are dumb.

Of course she could runner faster. Did you even watch the video? She looks good at the end and even speeds up.

This sort of challenge is obviously not staged every day. This isn't a track 800 or road 5k where you can go back and race it again the next weekend.

So to claim the record it makes total sense to start at a conservative on-target pace, avoid blowing up, and get the job done.

She can always come back and smash it in the months and years to come.

Think a bit.

If she could run faster than why didn't she? Chances to break records are few and far between and you have to take full advantage of each one as they come along. She could have a series of injuries over the next few years and never have another shot at running fast for any distance let alone some made up record attempt. Therefore, to put on this attempt and publicize it as a big deal means this was her going all out or very near close. If not, it's just a huge waste of breath talking about it.

"Practice, we talkin' 'bout practice?".

I agree. She was trying to break a world record. I can't see her doing it as a tempo run.

Congrats to Alice! Nothing like a lovely woman doing something notable to get a rise out of the LRC incels.

America's fury wrote:

Congrats to Alice! Nothing like a lovely woman doing something notable to get a rise out of the LRC incels.

You have an obsession with that word. Weird.

Let's be honest, it's not a bad run, but not very impressive. An unsponsored, unheralded American athlete ran over 400m further a year ago, well under the American record for 15k, 10 miles enroute, got zero publicity and when approached Hoka didn't even want to know about it. Molly Huddle, in poor shape, would have beaten the Brit by half a mile.