Hello Symmonds

Hellllooooooo!! @@BrandonBTD

Hmmmm. I'm nearly 300 pounds but used to run. Think some weirdo who hasn't run in years can take down the 2k? ;) guess we will see.

Hi can you come to Germany please?

Nick just a reminder fall is about to reach and as you said last year this fall 2023 in Montreal hopping to see you soon 😊

He even added the $5 he just won 😭

Earning, given...... not taken.

Emphasis on the $5 🤣

These videos are great

True

Nuts man! When I was running I couldn't sustain more than 7minute mile for half marathon at age 30.

His whole plan was to pay Burns.

Connor is actually one of the best high school distance athletes!! Surprised to see him on this video.

Same man

I would not have made it at 9 my average is 9:30

I thought he was making fun of that kid for looking like Burns. I didn't realize it was actually Burns. Symmonds can really get the big names can't he?

Me too. My 5k pace is an 8 minute mile or a bit under, but if I'd already run 3 miles before that I could've maybe done 2 or a bit more, and then I would've been done. And he kept bumping it up too, at 7 I definitely would've been out, that was insane.

Yea...sadly I've got a feeling as to why lol. Sus behavior on Nick's part. It's really like he didn't want to pay him anything. He wasn't even timing anyone else at that time.

yeah literally. that was so sad@@ACT305

Yeah. And he purposefully started timing him alone to get him out....let that man run! Or at least pay him

i mean if your at 10 min pace it doesnt matter how fir you are its more about mental

​@garrettw5792 Your body will give out eventually. Can't will yourself to run while your on the ground from a hamstring spasm

Great idea

I agree

yeah but then you also have to make sure there is food and water for the contestants. After 2 hours of running without water it becomes very unhealthy...

This would be too dangerous and much harder to film. I think this was a good way to do it safely and efficiently. And I'd say this is definitely still an endurance challenge

If you want to see something like this just watch back yard ultra format racing. It is very similar. People can go upwards of 100-200 miles in most of them and the record is 425 miles.

I know! He said he needed rent money :D

@@nicksymmonds you ruined the contest when you offered the bribe when down to the last two

​@@BBBBBB-rd8ggBro, the winner can run a sub four minute mile. Second place did great but there was literally no chance he could beat Connor Burns.

I race the dude so many times. Actually have a picture of me in front of him during a conference meet

@@Otto910Yeah but I’d rather see it through, then just end on a bribe

Burns also holds the Walmart mile record, which is easily more impressive 🤣

Except a pro runner would destroy him.

I tried lol

​@@bigguy7353And what did you accomplish in high school? Be better bro

@@bigguy7353 Sub 4 minute mile though? That is good enough to be a pro isn't it?

People like Courtney Dauwalter can run like 3 days without stopping. It would just take too long lol

@@mercury9765keep it at 7 minute pace and it would only be a couple hours at the most

@@mercury9765 she's the best female on the planet but definitely stops at every aid stations ;)

@@mercury9765ya but she’s not there

Agreed. Most of his competitions almost fully exclude women. Our bodies just don't function the same way. It annoys me. No one here was running for 3 days, I would have preferred it to be literally remain running. Feet clearing the ground.

yeah fr like what was he doing that others werent

An 8 hour KZfaq video would not have been more interesting.

hahah@@bigguy7353

@@bigguy7353 Editing exists, buddy. They ran for over an hour and this video is 13 minutes long.

This would be interesting! Or do this in a backyard ultra format; certain time limit for each lap, if you finish the lap faster you have x-seconds to rest before all go onto the next one together.

no literally

With his little slipper step run? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@bigguy7353 He unloaded 3 tractor trailers of furniture for 8 hrs and went straight to the track. So yeah.

Great job, you will improve over time, just do your best! Feels good to get out there.

hang in there. consistency is key!

…to watch 😅

​@@snkudryavtsev..... or participate in. 🤣

Ah yes a 8 hour competition lol

Without any speed minimums it would not go for 8 hours we had a 72 hour benefit run (you could start and stop whenever you wanted and for every hour the sponsors would donate money) and there were multiple people that ran for more than 24 hours without stopping... The biggest problem I see is the need to visit the toilet (that was allowed and did not count as a stop)

Such a 72 hour competition is exactly what the Mr. Beast of fitness would do@@thomaskuppers3962

Yeah a 4 hour video would be impractical and not entertaining at all.

​@@thomaskuppers3962That's for charity. Not a true competition. So not the same thing and it would go for 8 hours, up to 24 as you say, so not sure how contradicting yourself "proves" anything.

"Rigged" means "planned in advance". Any proof of that? It's quite a claim.

​@@bigguy7353 True not rigged, but never truly competitive. Connor has a 5k PR of 13:37 (4:23/mile) which is roughly equivalent to a sub-28 minute 10k (4:33/mile). I didn't find a 10k PR so I don't know if he's ever done one competitively, but that's :27/mile of wiggle room even if he's a relatively worse 10k runner than 5k. 5:00/mile pace is at most the equivalent of a tempo run for him. A 5:00/mile 5k is about 15:30, well above average even if not quite sub-elite yet, and it's probably not far off from the level of the next fastest runner in this competition. At 6:00/mile, this is STILL likely quite a bit slower than what someone of Connor's profile would be capable of running a marathon at. 6:00/mile means a 2:37:19 marathon, and to show how much wiggle room he has to be capable of it, his 5k PR is roughly equivalent to a marathon time of 2:10:35 (4:59/mile). If he has as much natural talent at the marathon as he has at the 5k, with the right training he could realistically hold a 5:00/mile for about a marathon. Even if he's naturally much more gifted at shorter races like the 5k and is a comparatively much worse marathoner, the gap in his abilities at these distances is probably less than one minute per mile. It wasn't rigged, but it was so uncompetitive that the outcome was as good as pre-determined. This was a jog for Connor.

Except when it goes to a 5 min mile 😅

how do you have the endurance to run 24hr straight?

@@sabbialmighty7249 20 min power nap at least once during the night then a coffee on the go gives me more energy

@@sabbialmighty72499 minute miles and food and water

elite runners can run 5 min miles for longer than a marathon

@Cody-fk3kc it's a competition of KZfaq subscribers, not professionals.

To "see" the elevation difference? You can just look that up, and if you were there you wouldn't see the difference because everything around you would be at roughly the same elevation. You mean hold the competition in a high elevation area to see how less oxygen effects runners. It doesn't make anyone "better" to run at high elevations. You put your pulmonary system through extra stress which isn't good for you, and having more red blood cells also causes health problems.

@@bigguy7353 quit being dumb, you knew what tf I meant. I want to see how the bison's performance would hold up to people who normally live in higher elevation.

He put no one into nothing. He showed up.