My coworker ran 75 miles in a 100 mile race which was up and down huge hills. She had to stop due to horrific blisters on her feet. I was super impressed!
Im baffled at how he looks to be running 8 minute per mile pace with a shorter stride like that. That's one hell of an efficient run tho! Sub 6 per mile for 60 miles. Crazy!
This is awesome to see coverage of ultramarathon records! The number of ultramarathon running records set in the past couple years is staggering, including Sorokin's 24 hour record last year. Many are track or road records, but so many event records have been broken in stunning times.
Dude, that’s like my tempo pace. I’m dying when I hit mile six on that. With Kipchoge’s marathon I just don’t even have a concept of running the pace for more than like two laps, but this hits closer to home because it’s a pace that I actually use for training and I just don’t know how you can possibly do that for that long. I know most professional runners find that pace easy, and I just can’t wrap my head around that.
I'm always so happy to see you cover ultra events Andrew! Sorokin is probably the best flat ultrarunner of this generation and it's a privilege to watch him run.
Fair to say he is the 100km-24hour running GOAT, would love to see him attempt breaking 6 or running a 48hour race to solidify his ultra running GOAT status.
my mile pb was 6:20 on road. If i get access to a track some day i might do it in sub-6 there, but yeah, keeping that pace for 100km is absolute insanity.
I was watching sweet elite video featuring this gentelman and he was saying that is mind boggling how some of those Kenyans can run so fast.When you hear it from someone like this absolute legend really puts things in perspective.
That is about my best marathon time, and he did it twice and then some. In South Africa, we have Comrades Marathon, it does not have a standard distance and there is an up run and a down run with them alternating the start and finish every year, but it would be interesting to compare the pace of him and the two records.
For a bit of comparison, the current Comrades Up record is 5:24:49. Bruce Fordyce's 1988 Up record was 5:27:42. In 1989, Fordyce set a world best (not at the time an officially ratified world record) for 100km of 6:25:07. So Fordyce was 3 mins off today's Comrade's Up record time and nearly a full 20 mins off Sorokin's current 100km record.
it looks like Guillaume's pace started to suffer around the 50km mark, and he dropped at 69km, but Sorokin congratulated him on his attempt. it's nice to see competitors support each other!
I’d like to see these dudes run the Comrades ultra in South Africa. Not sure what the route profile of the 100km is but if it’s not full of hills then maybe they can pass on Comrades 😅
Brilliant breakdown - these days 100K is barely ultra running category cos basically, it's just like going to work (running!) from 9 til 5 (that was kindof what Kouros reckoned). I did an hour of running this morning and have been on my feet all day. But anyway, a fantastic achievement and great to see Lithuania as world beaters!
It just takes incredible mental strength and discipline. Iread once that back 300 years or so, the tarahumara Indians tsn great distances too without tiring. And doing it today makes the feat that more remarkable. I just hope he gets paid to continue to do what he is doing.
They seem to be at there prime a little bit later 35 to 45 yrs of age.Sorikin is exceptional like to see him try a longer race iam sure he would be incredible.hes done it all up to 24 hours
Yiannis Kouros broke his own world records into his 40's without the use of super shoes. He was known for his ability to process 750 calories per hour which he practiced in training. Normal is about 300...he is still the GOAT of ultramarathoning in my book due to his longevity. Walmsley did break the 50 mile world record in a 100 km race, but faded to second the last twelve miles. His goal was the 50 mile world record.
I know a couple world class 10k - marathon guys (much more talented than Walmsley) who went into ultras once they retired and have struggled somewhat with 100k. The real race starts after 60k
Their specialty is too fast to sustain this distance. It would be like saying Usain bolt can break the mile record because he is fastest at 100m and 200m.
@@dogelife7901 It's not nearly as much of a percentage difference. 42km vs 100km is more like comparing 100m to 250m. To put it in more concrete terms, if Kipchoge can run a marathon in 2 hours 1 minute, he should comfortably be able to run 2 and a half consecutive marathons at the much more forgiving 2 hours 33 minutes pace.
@@viktorbruzh6304 Yes, Sorokin's range is impressive. For a 24 hour run, I don't feel confident that anyone else could beat him by changing their training focus.
Using the formula (Time for distance 1)/(Time for distance 2) = [(distance 1)/(distance 2)]^1.06, you'd be able to do 2.3924 miles at 5:53 pace. This is a formula that has proved to be quite accurate for most runners, but especially accurate for highly trained runners, in predicting their potential time at one race distance, given their best time at another race distance. When I was in top shape and running about 32 minutes for a 10K, it predicted my best times at 5K, 10 miles, 1/2 marathon, and 15miles to within a couple of seconds of my actual PRs. Only my marathon PR was far off from the predicted time, but I know that was because I didn't train properly during the years I ran marathons. Later I focused on the shorter distances, and that's when I got all my PRs.
@@Postermaestro I don't remember all the details but I first saw the formula in the early 80's in a runner's magazine article. I think it was developed in the 70's, based on the best performances of many elite distance runners at various distances. It's an empirical formula that best fits the data from all the runners. It attempts to model how a runner's pace must slow as the distance they run increases. The ratio of the 2 distances in the formula raised to the power 1.06 worked well for most of the elite runners studied, and later, as running became popular in the 80's there was much more data to test the formula on, and it was found that it worked fairly well for runners of all abilities, not just the elites. It does assume that a runner properly trains to be prepared to run fast at each distance the formula is applied to. For example, it won't work well trying to predict a miler's marathon time if he never puts in the training for the much longer distance. So again the formula is T1/T2 = (D1/D2) ^1.06. As an example, let's say D2 = 5K, and your time T2 for that 5K is 15 minutes. And you want to predict your 10K time T1. So you have D1/D2 = 10K/5K = 2. You raise that 2 to the power of 1.06 = 2.08493. Multiple your 5K time T2 by 2.08493 to get your 10K time T1 = 31.274 minutes = 31:16.
I cant even get under 4:30 per km when i only need to run that 1 k. Being faster than me by a landslide and doing that 100 times over is completely incomprehensible to me. I am aware that im not a fast runner, but currently I dont even think i will ever get to that speed, no matter how much i train.
Why is Callum Hawkins on the cover page of this video? He was in his most unfortunate moment at km 40 of a marathon. It’s not related to ultra-running. Friendly suggestion: why not use a nice pose of an ultra-runner, instead, as a cover page?
Wait for us East Africa to ENTER or develop interest in that distance. You will wonder. All of this record will disapear in a blink of an eye. Am not an elite runner but i several do 10K for 36 min ... and 21K for 1hr 20min
The Japanese brand ASICS that sponsored the Japanese guy for the record does make one of the next best super shoes after Nike, I bet wearing those ASICS top level shoes he could push for the record.
You don't get bored when you're focused like that. If you get bored while running you're just pissing in the wind. Might as well go for a walk and listen to some music.
@@Postermaestro agree to disagree. been running for 32 years, especially trail running. much prefer to run for 90' on a course that I make up as I go. variety is the spice of life ;-)
Ultra marathons are underrated and too me by far more difficult and the one area of running where the East Africans don’t dominate. Yes $$$ is a factor but still I don’t think they will dominate this discipline.
> the one area of running where the East Africans don’t dominate. I have this feeling that if the marathon purse money made it into Ultra running, the Kipchoges and so on, would follow and very rapidly dominate all the money-heavy disciplines.
@@battshytkrazy156 That is not true, the Ethiopians win the Olympic Steeplechase almost every time with a clean sweep if not a single upset in the event from Africa, Europe, or USA and the Ethiopians running in the event are short more near or around 5 foot or 152.5 cm. Sure it might not be the 800 meter Hurdles but the event has hurdles as well as water.
Ultrarunners aren't quite as receptive to mechanical doping as the marathon crowd. We understand what those shoes can offer over that kind of distance and that isn't something to take lightly.
I don't know, but I thnik you're underestimating your viewers thinking most couldn't run a sub 6 minute mile :D I just ran a 4:29 1500m and I'm sure there's many people watching who are even faster, am I right?
Imagine and being like “i’m gonna run for six hours today”💀
I ran couple hours yesterday good runz
just had a stroke reading this
@@msport_erick I didn’t, get some resilience
Not run but actually race for 6 hours...insane
My coworker ran 75 miles in a 100 mile race which was up and down huge hills. She had to stop due to horrific blisters on her feet. I was super impressed!
Im baffled at how he looks to be running 8 minute per mile pace with a shorter stride like that.
That's one hell of an efficient run tho! Sub 6 per mile for 60 miles. Crazy!
His running style is so efficient that it looks like he's race walking.
I could run 5:53 for at most 4 miles, this is insane
This is awesome to see coverage of ultramarathon records! The number of ultramarathon running records set in the past couple years is staggering, including Sorokin's 24 hour record last year. Many are track or road records, but so many event records have been broken in stunning times.
Dude, that’s like my tempo pace. I’m dying when I hit mile six on that. With Kipchoge’s marathon I just don’t even have a concept of running the pace for more than like two laps, but this hits closer to home because it’s a pace that I actually use for training and I just don’t know how you can possibly do that for that long. I know most professional runners find that pace easy, and I just can’t wrap my head around that.
If you ever wanted to ask him questions or interview him; he is really responsive and friendly on strava.
He's the goat, no doubt! He also ran 30km on a treadmill which is in itself insane!
someone ran 164 miles on a treadmill in 24 hours
That's not insane. I do that every week and more.
@@JonathanvG-wj1rodifferent pace
Damn. That man is a machine!
So he ran 100km at an average speed of my 1 mile PB 😅😅
Ultra running is awesome. Did my first 50k this month 😁
I'm always so happy to see you cover ultra events Andrew! Sorokin is probably the best flat ultrarunner of this generation and it's a privilege to watch him run.
So in hills he gets beat ? I’m sure some Kenyan can beat him or some
Crap
@@jondoc7525 if it ain't Jon Doc
@@Postermaestro haha you know me ?
@@jondoc7525 yes. You put him at Western States or UTMB and he will get beat. That's a completely different type of running.
a sub 6min mile is basically a sprint for everyone for just one mile. 100 km at that pace places these mortals at the pinnacle of humanity.
I saw this dude training when I was driving to work .. he run the road up from Iten to Kaptarakwa. He run like a bullet👍🏻
you're looking at a superhuman
Fair to say he is the 100km-24hour running GOAT, would love to see him attempt breaking 6 or running a 48hour race to solidify his ultra running GOAT status.
my mile pb was 6:20 on road. If i get access to a track some day i might do it in sub-6 there, but yeah, keeping that pace for 100km is absolute insanity.
Same here😂
well you're don't really train for running then, kinda hard to compare
What kind of training does this man do? He is 41 years old and can carry out such distances in such pace. What is the secrete of staying injury free?
and no one in lithuanian media even talking about him, thats crazy. keep it up bro, always supporting you!!!
You should do a video on the GOAT of ultra marathon running the one and only Courtney Dauwalter
She might be on her way, but I wouldn't call her the GOAT yet
So, a better reference for the veterans and military people out there:
He ran about a 12 minute two mile. Then again, another 30 times in a row.
I will congratulate this guy for sure. But it it was yiannis kouros who showed us what was possible in ultra marathons
man this guy is slowly catching the true GOAT Yiannis
I was watching sweet elite video featuring this gentelman and he was saying that is mind boggling how some of those Kenyans can run so fast.When you hear it from someone like this absolute legend really puts things in perspective.
Imagine the man who hold a world record for 100k being confused how the human being can run under 3minute/km😂
That is about my best marathon time, and he did it twice and then some. In South Africa, we have Comrades Marathon, it does not have a standard distance and there is an up run and a down run with them alternating the start and finish every year, but it would be interesting to compare the pace of him and the two records.
For a bit of comparison, the current Comrades Up record is 5:24:49. Bruce Fordyce's 1988 Up record was 5:27:42. In 1989, Fordyce set a world best (not at the time an officially ratified world record) for 100km of 6:25:07.
So Fordyce was 3 mins off today's Comrade's Up record time and nearly a full 20 mins off Sorokin's current 100km record.
The french runner Guillaume Ruel will try to break the 6 hours in 100k of Tokyo this week-end
it looks like Guillaume's pace started to suffer around the 50km mark, and he dropped at 69km, but Sorokin congratulated him on his attempt. it's nice to see competitors support each other!
This is insane. 1:27 is actually my target time when I do 400m repeats and this monster did 250 times that!
i would love to see kipchoge move to the ultramarathon circuit when he retires from the marathon. hopefully not for a few years though!
i found kinda crazy that he doesn't look that fast when he runs
I’d like to see these dudes run the Comrades ultra in South Africa. Not sure what the route profile of the 100km is but if it’s not full of hills then maybe they can pass on Comrades 😅
GOAT
Endurance machine.
👍👍💪💪 INSANITY!!!!
This dude ran 100k within a minute of my nyc marathon time 😅😅😅
Brilliant breakdown - these days 100K is barely ultra running category cos basically, it's just like going to work (running!) from 9 til 5 (that was kindof what Kouros reckoned). I did an hour of running this morning and have been on my feet all day. But anyway, a fantastic achievement and great to see Lithuania as world beaters!
lol my best mile ever is like a 5:50. I would be done in about 4.5 laps at his pace
It just takes incredible mental strength and discipline. Iread once that back 300 years or so, the tarahumara Indians tsn great distances too without tiring. And doing it today makes the feat that more remarkable. I just hope he gets paid to continue to do what he is doing.
Wow. I can't even imagine running that for 6 hours. I max out at 1 lap at that pace 😂
Being able to run just one lap in that pace is impossible for 99% of humans. So kudos.
Imagine he run for 250 lap and the road is harder than in track
I think it was Sorokin who said that he never runs further than 12 miles in training
That certainly isn't true. Look at his Strava.
He does 50km on the reg in 6 min pace...
Give Jim Walmsley credi as he did place 10th in the US marathon trials in 2:14!
He's also a mountain specialist. Flat ultra running is completely different from mountain ultra running.
This guy is the ultra goat bruh just keeps on chugging
They seem to be at there prime a little bit later 35 to 45 yrs of age.Sorikin is exceptional like to see him try a longer race iam sure he would be incredible.hes done it all up to 24 hours
This is absolutely insane. Humans arent limited thats for sure
Yiannis Kouros broke his own world records into his 40's without the use of super shoes. He was known for his ability to process 750 calories per hour which he practiced in training. Normal is about 300...he is still the GOAT of ultramarathoning in my book due to his longevity. Walmsley did break the 50 mile world record in a 100 km race, but faded to second the last twelve miles. His goal was the 50 mile world record.
Yep yiannis is the king
I go to track myself for an hour or so and find that another WR is broken.
I am wondering what he could do on the trail if he switch to it. That's sont crazy speed
Any of the top marathoners could break this record, but they don't have a strong reason to race 100km. Still, hats off to Sorokin.
Sorokin also did 24 hours run for 319.614 km
I know a couple world class 10k - marathon guys (much more talented than Walmsley) who went into ultras once they retired and have struggled somewhat with 100k. The real race starts after 60k
Their specialty is too fast to sustain this distance. It would be like saying Usain bolt can break the mile record because he is fastest at 100m and 200m.
@@dogelife7901 It's not nearly as much of a percentage difference. 42km vs 100km is more like comparing 100m to 250m. To put it in more concrete terms, if Kipchoge can run a marathon in 2 hours 1 minute, he should comfortably be able to run 2 and a half consecutive marathons at the much more forgiving 2 hours 33 minutes pace.
@@viktorbruzh6304 Yes, Sorokin's range is impressive. For a 24 hour run, I don't feel confident that anyone else could beat him by changing their training focus.
Most people drive less than 26 miles per day? Wow!
I think that a marathon is extreme. This ultra running is not healthy. I think it actually harms your body.
Lol. I think sitting all day typing stupid comments is definitely a lot more harmful to your body.
Please don’t tell me that behind this other worldly runner is a good bottle of vodka, please!
@ 3:52, bruh, he should've stopped the moment his watch said 100 km! You know, if the watch/strava says it, it must be true/accurate!
My mile PR is 5:35 I wonder how long I could hold a 5:53 pace
Probably 2 miles at best lol
Using the formula (Time for distance 1)/(Time for distance 2) = [(distance 1)/(distance 2)]^1.06, you'd be able to do 2.3924 miles at 5:53 pace. This is a formula that has proved to be quite accurate for most runners, but especially accurate for highly trained runners, in predicting their potential time at one race distance, given their best time at another race distance. When I was in top shape and running about 32 minutes for a 10K, it predicted my best times at 5K, 10 miles, 1/2 marathon, and 15miles to within a couple of seconds of my actual PRs. Only my marathon PR was far off from the predicted time, but I know that was because I didn't train properly during the years I ran marathons. Later I focused on the shorter distances, and that's when I got all my PRs.
@@rodjohnson2632 cool. You know what the formula comes from? Some sort of averages?
@@Postermaestro I don't remember all the details but I first saw the formula in the early 80's in a runner's magazine article. I think it was developed in the 70's, based on the best performances of many elite distance runners at various distances. It's an empirical formula that best fits the data from all the runners. It attempts to model how a runner's pace must slow as the distance they run increases. The ratio of the 2 distances in the formula raised to the power 1.06 worked well for most of the elite runners studied, and later, as running became popular in the 80's there was much more data to test the formula on, and it was found that it worked fairly well for runners of all abilities, not just the elites. It does assume that a runner properly trains to be prepared to run fast at each distance the formula is applied to. For example, it won't work well trying to predict a miler's marathon time if he never puts in the training for the much longer distance. So again the formula is T1/T2 = (D1/D2) ^1.06. As an example, let's say D2 = 5K, and your time T2 for that 5K is 15 minutes. And you want to predict your 10K time T1. So you have D1/D2 = 10K/5K = 2. You raise that 2 to the power of 1.06 = 2.08493. Multiple your 5K time T2 by 2.08493 to get your 10K time T1 = 31.274 minutes = 31:16.
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Ok, and? Does he want a cookie?
I cant even get under 4:30 per km when i only need to run that 1 k. Being faster than me by a landslide and doing that 100 times over is completely incomprehensible to me.
I am aware that im not a fast runner, but currently I dont even think i will ever get to that speed, no matter how much i train.
Why is Callum Hawkins on the cover page of this video? He was in his most unfortunate moment at km 40 of a marathon. It’s not related to ultra-running. Friendly suggestion: why not use a nice pose of an ultra-runner, instead, as a cover page?
Awesome
Wonder what his mile time would be? I’d guess like 4:35 ish maybe? I could be completely wrong though.
Way way WAY off cheef
i don’t know but i am sure that it’s not nearly that slow
S T A R T ... any female WR over 1OOOm tho
His SLOWEST 10 km was 37:50 which is 6 mins and 5 sec per mile.
His fastest 10km (twice) was 35:50 which is 5 mins and 46 sec per mile.
Probably slower than 4:35. He’s an ultra runner so likely doesn’t have any speed capabilities.
I can barely run a 5K at 6:30 per mile
I can drive that fast
Superman
Wait for us East Africa to ENTER or develop interest in that distance. You will wonder. All of this record will disapear in a blink of an eye. Am not an elite runner but i several do 10K for 36 min ... and 21K for 1hr 20min
Perhaps. It's a different ball game though.
Take into account the Greek and Japanese didn't wear carbon shoes...
I think they could aim nowadays for a sub 6 h
The Japanese brand ASICS that sponsored the Japanese guy for the record does make one of the next best super shoes after Nike, I bet wearing those ASICS top level shoes he could push for the record.
What is even more insane is not too many years ago this chaps was overweight and as far as I know did very little running
G.O.A.T. in ultra running
Aleksandr sorokin in the best world runner ultra❤
Make a video a Jaydon hibberts 17.86 by 18 year old
1:48 BRruHh! Imagine running so fast you slash your shoulder while just running.
He cut a corner to close and hit a fence.
what is more amazing is the boredom of running sucha small lap repeatedly 😴
You don't get bored when you're focused like that. If you get bored while running you're just pissing in the wind. Might as well go for a walk and listen to some music.
@@Postermaestro agree to disagree. been running for 32 years, especially trail running. much prefer to run for 90' on a course that I make up as I go. variety is the spice of life ;-)
Ultra marathons are underrated and too me by far more difficult and the one area of running where the East Africans don’t dominate.
Yes $$$ is a factor but still I don’t think they will dominate this discipline.
> the one area of running where the East Africans don’t dominate.
I have this feeling that if the marathon purse money made it into Ultra running, the Kipchoges and so on, would follow and very rapidly dominate all the money-heavy disciplines.
H U R D L Ez ??
@@barath4545 I don’t think so they are limited at 26.2 miles anything above that is out of scope for them right now
@@battshytkrazy156 That is not true, the Ethiopians win the Olympic Steeplechase almost every time with a clean sweep if not a single upset in the event from Africa, Europe, or USA and the Ethiopians running in the event are short more near or around 5 foot or 152.5 cm. Sure it might not be the 800 meter Hurdles but the event has hurdles as well as water.
Why wouldn't east africans dominate? If they trained for ultras, I'm sure you'll see the same results
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Ultrarunners aren't quite as receptive to mechanical doping as the marathon crowd. We understand what those shoes can offer over that kind of distance and that isn't something to take lightly.
I don't know, but I thnik you're underestimating your viewers thinking most couldn't run a sub 6 minute mile :D
I just ran a 4:29 1500m and I'm sure there's many people watching who are even faster, am I right?
Goggins could beat this.
Goggins cant run ONE sub six mile
Are you joking?
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