72 Hour Race of Interest

jeffontour

Enduro is competing at this race at the moment.

Just watched him trot through the start/finish area on the webcam, only another 66 hours or so to go.

ultraman1

just about to hit 100 miles in the nxt hour or so (circa17) and in 2nd place,,,grear goin

http://www.aravaiparunning.com/ultracast/

ultraman1

200k in 22:45....

ultraman1

must be on a short break,,

ultrapercy

ultraman1 wrote: »

200k in 22:45....

Savage going, good going in a 24 hour never mind 72.

jeffontour

ultrapercy wrote: »

Savage going, good going in a 24 hour never mind 72.

Too right! I'm really looking forward to how his AR experience transfers to this event. Interesting to see how his rest breaks are structured.

ultraman1

43hr30 at 309km,,,,guy ahead of him at 343km but havin a kip at moment

ultraman1

new irish 48hr record,,340+++km..

ultraman1

ultraman1 wrote: »

new irish 48hr record,,340+++km..

afaik and am open to correction,irish 72hr record of 449km is not outta reach,

Slogger Jogger

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menoscemo

ultraman1 wrote: »

afaik and am open to correction,irish 72hr record of 449km is not outta reach,

That's long smashed now. Still over 7hrs to go and Enduro is up to 464km (288 miles). Looks like he'll reach his original target of 300 miles.

ultraman1

just past 302 miles....and not past the realms of possibitly dat he could catch fejes,they are gettin nervous on yir mans fb page

Slogger Jogger

Thats a lot of belt buckles. Fantastic performance. Is this the prep for the AON

nerraw1111

Incredible stuff

shotgunmcos

+1 unreal. Only 12 miles off the lead. Unreal.

nerraw1111

Via twitter @ukrunrambles: Eoin Keith stopped at 67hours after running 300miles! Also broke irish 48hr record. Joe Fejas overall winner 329+ miles! bonkers #ATY2012

RacoonQueen

Well done enduro, great running.

average_runner

That's great running. Congrats.

Outside

Unbelievable stuff, am I correct in saying that he's only the 4th person ever to have broken 300 mi in that race? Yiannis Kouros being one of these people? Great going, well done.

Dunebuggy

Yes you are correct, 4th person in History in that race with Joe being the 3rd. Eoin ran 300.27 Miles to get back to the support point. An amazing achievement of many for that lad!!

I believe Yiannis Kouros record in that race was also beaten by Joe.

nerraw1111

Yeah Kouros course record was broken which was 323 miles. Shows just how good Enduro's performance was.

bazman

Congrats Enduro - savage performance
I struggled to cycle 500k in a week, and you've run the same amount in less than 3 days. Mind boggling!
My only question is why did you stop when there was 500k and Irish 72hr record so close to being broken? I'm sure you had 500 reasons to stop, but I'm just curious what goes through your mind in the final stages of an event like this

Slogger Jogger

I expect a suitably epic race report

Enduro

Thanks all!

I'll definitely need to get the race report writing going. It was a great race in every sense. 'twas a new way to start the year anyway!

PaulieC

Just a suggestion...72 hours is a long time to be running and I'm sure you get bored. You should bring along a Dictaphone and record your report while you're running. Two birds, one stone.

Outside

If you managed to come up with one word every 2 mins running it'd be a 2000+ word race report, surely manageable?!

Rogue Runner

What an unbelievable feat. Well done Enduro.

TFBubendorfer

Winner Joe Fejes has written a race report. Check it out. Enduro gets plenty of mentions.

http://run100miles.com/race-reports/joe-fejes-329-miles/

Enduro

I've written the first part of the race report and published it on my blog here. I think its 2000+ words already, with 2 more days to go

rom

Enduro wrote: »

I've written the first part of the race report and published it on my blog here. I think its 2000+ words already, with 2 more days to go

Would love to see more pictures even if you have links to other people's blogs, thanks. Looking good so far. Like How do you deal with chaffing over that kind of time ?

Itziger

Great report there fella for the first day. Looking forward to the rest of it. Congratulations on the achievement itself. Quite inspiring in the true spirit of the word (as opposed to a sobbing cycling cheat finding God on a chat show kinda way).

kit3

Amazing achievement and a great report - looking forward to the next installment.

opus

Enduro wrote: »

I've written the first part of the race report and published it on my blog here. I think its 2000+ words already, with 2 more days to go

Congratulations on the result, some achievement! Looking forward to reading the rest of the report.

ger664

Brilliant run and race report is matching it so far.

DogSlySmile

Incredible. Running that distance is the equivalent of running from Dublin to Galway and back again. He's some animal.

Itziger

DogSlySmile wrote: »

Incredible. Running that distance is the equivalent of running from Dublin to Galway and back again. He's some animal.

I might be wrong - not very good on miles - but I think you'll find it's more!! Google says Dub to Gal is 210 km, so 420 total. Didn't Enduro do 500??

I mean, hey, it's only 80k more. Not even two marathons.

Itziger

Oooops, just realised he only did 486k.

Still longer than the recognised Dublin to Galway to Dublin route though.

Dunebuggy

Great warmup race report!! Its such a fantastic Achievement, hope the AON lastnight doesn't delay the rest of the report. Header !!!

geld

Itziger wrote: »

just realised he "only" did 486k.

:rolleyes:

I haven't driven that far since I was on holidays in France a few years ago.

Well done Enduro!

Enduro

Day 2's report is up on my blog now

nerraw1111

"I slowed to a walk and fired up roaming internet on the phone to check Tony’s record on the ultrarunning Ireland website. I had to know."

Ha. Brilliant stuff.

hot to trot

Brilliant, inspirational , race and report. Was almost glued to computer while leaving clients waiting in other room .

After reading Fejes report, the final day 3 instalment is more eagerly awaited than any report I have ever read before .

We are all SO PROUD of you and what you achieve.:)

kit3

Reading Iron War at the moment - not a patch on your reports. Roll on day 3

corkrunner71

Enduro wrote: »

Day 2's report is up on my blog now

Congratulations. Really enjoyable reading as well. Can't wait for day 3

pistol_75

Really enjoyed your reports so far Enduro. Looking forward to the last instalment.

jonny99

Last report is up also. Unreal.

hot to trot

Thank God this finally came . Definitely worth the wait.;)

So very very proud of your wonderful achievements. You are so deserving of this. Truly a leading light and an inspiration for many human beings - runners and non runners alike. I hope the smile stays in place for a long time.

Enduro

Last report is up also. Unreal.

Was just about to post that No rest for the keyboard. Art O'Neill to do next!

If anyone has any questions that haven't been answered in the blog then feel free to fire away.

dechol

Brilliant report. Fantastic achievement!

ultrapercy

Amazing, insane, heroic and inspiring. Huge congratulations on an epic achievement. Your race report,particularly day3, shows what body and mind are capable of.

PaulieC

+1 to all the congratulations above.

+2 for never even having so much as a hair out of place for the three days