New GWR: Marc Gawley - 21 April 2011

[Root]

Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing some information, understandably limited as it is. I already said well done indirectly, but seeing as you're here now, I might as well say it again directly: congratulations for a stonking time, and for surprising all of us here. I'm glad someone not actively on the forum managed to break a record that was considered extremely difficult to beat. Though of course you'd be warmly welcomed if you did decide to take part in posting here

- Oliver

[The Raven]

Well done.

That’s a lot of running that you did!

No buses, non-terminal 5 finish, that will put the cats amongst the pigeons!

-Glen

[palkanetoijala31]

Sorry i forgot to ask a 3rd and 4th question

3. Which tube challenger do you most respect on here.?

4. If any tube challenger you think could break your time who do you think it would be.?

[tubeguru]

What strange questions ...

[palkanetoijala31]

What strange questions ...

but at least Marc can answer them questions as they are not relating to his route in any way or giving any secrets away that he might have!its a kind of eh Marc we would like to know you better but not pry into ur record route question!and i hope from a former record holder he beat he might have respect for the former holder time he beat a kind of passing the torch as it were!.

[dudey]

Judging by his video and facts given, I reckon he went Upminster-Epping. Given the stat of around 25 miles run overall on the day, I'm willing to bet there was a nice run in there up in the North-West corner. Basically I think this guy did it by being really fit and maintaining a good pace on several over-1-mile runs. Something which is encouraging me to get a route sorted and researched before this Olympia change

[Nigel]

May I also add my congratulations to Marc on a stunning achievement. And I think I should apologise if my earlier comments appeared to cast any aspersions on your record - but with initially no information I was certainly intrigued.

I suspect Marc doesn't want to keep on answering questions from nosey challengers, but I would be interested to know if your novel way of validating your route was instead of, or in addition to, the normal Guinness requirements, i.e. did you still keep a log book of times and train numbers, get hourly witness statements and an independent stopwatch operator for the start and finish? It would be useful to know for when I next try myself, currently planned for September, not that I think I have much hope of getting near this new record time.

[Going Underground]

Hello Marc

Thank you for posting and many congratulations on a splendid time

I see that running 25 miles on the day has been mentioned and taking a reasonable pace of say 7 minutes to a mile that would represent almost 3 hours not travelling on the network which seems a huge chunk of the time...

[dudey]

Hello Marc

Thank you for posting and many congratulations on a splendid time

I see that running 25 miles on the day has been mentioned and taking a reasonable pace of say 7 minutes to a mile that would represent almost 3 hours not travelling on the network which seems a huge chunk of the time...

Ah yes, but how would that compare to the amount of time you currently spend running, on buses or doubling back on track already covered?

[Going Underground]

Hello Marc

Thank you for posting and many congratulations on a splendid time

I see that running 25 miles on the day has been mentioned and taking a reasonable pace of say 7 minutes to a mile that would represent almost 3 hours not travelling on the network which seems a huge chunk of the time...

Ah yes, but how would that compare to the amount of time you currently spend running, on buses or doubling back on track already covered?

Let we work out on a typical "Brown's" GWR route and I will get back to you

[jbom]

I see that running 25 miles on the day has been mentioned and taking a reasonable pace of say 7 minutes to a mile that would represent almost 3 hours not travelling on the network which seems a huge chunk of the time...

Which would suggest that an international class marathon runner could take ~45 minutes off the record, perhaps?

[Going Underground]

I see that running 25 miles on the day has been mentioned and taking a reasonable pace of say 7 minutes to a mile that would represent almost 3 hours not travelling on the network which seems a huge chunk of the time...

Which would suggest that an international class marathon runner could take ~45 minutes off the record, perhaps?

Having thought about this I know the running would be broken up but 25 miles is almost marathon distance and 3hours would be a belting time.. Maybe my estimate on total time spent outside the network is too low...

[greatkingrat]

Well a Marc Gawley ran the 2009 Barcelona Marathon in 3:11:23 so if it is the same person he is pretty fast.

[palkanetoijala31]

Well a Marc Gawley ran the 2009 Barcelona Marathon in 3:11:23 so if it is the same person he is pretty fast.

might explain the fast time then still think u dont need to run miss cawley.

i wonder what steveo time for marathon is as he is the only other one u could compare with.he has to 7.5m miles in order to do that i think well thats fast!.

so marc whom out of us lot do u think is a threat running wise to your record!

[Steeevooo]

Haha, my best marathon time doesn't compare - my best is 4:12, though I did throw up half way around when setting my PB