Vegan power!

​@@philipeick-vocalmusiche would've ran 100 miles more if he decided to eat meat on that day

Well he did have a rest day so

Yeah, and the commute is no short distance, like 15 miles one way or something like that. And he runs it with a big backpacking pack with his gear for work and food. To rinse and repeat that everyday is just incredible

Go Harvey ! I am a fellow teacher and cycled over 200miles a week commuting and racing for a decade before I got a chronic illness. I just recovered from the illness and accompanying addiction to pain meds after an eight year battle and am back at it. Harvey is a big inspiration - I had given up all hope of even cycling again, let alone racing, but to see him crush this at 47 gives me so much hope. Legend indeed!

crazy to follow live; every morning I woke up and saw it was still going!

This hurts lol

You laugh… I started ultras when I hit 40 and got tired of competing with my faster younger self. Wish I’d swapped 5ks for 50ks/miles DECADES ago, so much more fun! 😂

True, because at the crazy distances these guys are capable of, it would be almost impossible for a person to motivate themselves to keep going after they have one.

I saw some backyard races with limited fields or severe weather that only got up to 40 ish miles!

Gary = Gary Cantrell = Lazarus Lake

For sure. If you're running a 200 mile traditional ultra, you can have a bad hour and make up for it. And there are stretches where you find yourself in the flow and suddenly find yourself 10 miles down the trail without thinking about it. Not so at a backyard. Having a good time? Too bad, you need to stop and wait for the next hour. Need an extra five minutes to retape your feet? Too bad, you need to be in the starting corral on the hour. It's brutal. Honestly, my only issue is that it doesn't scale. You can't fit thousands of people in the starting gate. I wish I could try a backyard just to see if I could set a PB for distance, but there's no way I'd finish anywhere near the top, so it's not worth me trying to enter one.

First place loser, as they say.

I said "as they say"

Well, he won the Barkley's Marathons, so 2nd in the Big Dog & winner of the Barkley's in the same year - unbelievable

not even 2nd, you get a DNF! lol

DNF 😅

was that the race in australia where the guy from new Zeeland's lungs gave up, but he pushed just so the other guy could beat the record. Absolutely epic shit !

When you’re as slow as I am, it’s just one long race with a few minutes at the aid station every 4 miles. 😂

Well, they are shown on wikipedia so the assists are official. Even Laz says that assists are important so they're definitely on record.

Where did this come from😭

@@gabepattacini204 Mario Rios

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I thought the explanation you gave is the same one given in the video. At least that's how I understood it.

Courtney has done this race. She was 2nd in 2018 and won in 2019 (68 loops aka yards).

Screenshotted. Don’t disappoint

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Check again, it is in fact 4+1/6 mile every hour.

@@TerjeMathisen - no, its one hour for 4.167 miles, then an hour’s rest before starting again on the next hour … and so on (see 0:58 to 1:24).

Check the original thumbnail: 450 miles in 4.5 days looks a lot like 100 miles/day, right? Laz came up with the concept due to all the 100 mile Ultras that have a 24-hour cutoff: This was a Covid-compatible way for a small group to have their own 100 mile Ultra without having to travel or meet up with a lot of other people. Laz being Laz he also didn't put any actual limit on the total time/length, just that the winner has to stop after running one extra loop when the assister gives up.

@@TerjeMathisen - cheers, its poorly worded in the video, saying that there’s one hour to complete a loop then after the one hour mark competitors can do as they please before starting again on the following hour mark.

@@Boppo101 Agreed - it should say you have 1 hour to complete a loop, and then a new loop starts on the next hour, and so on. If you finish any one particular loop in less than an hour, then whatever time remains until the next hour starts, yes, you can rest/eat/etc.

Excuse me, ma'am, this is a Total Running Productions channel.

Good old question of why anyone does anything. Just because. Like why would you do a 400m race on a track? You're racing to a spot where you already are.