WTW: Crouser Gets His WR, Walmsley Just Misses; Patrick Mahomes Gets His Super Shoes and Michigan Gets Cancelled
The Week That Was in Running, January 18 – 24, 2021
January 25, 2021
2:35:53 – marathon pace averaged by
Jim Walmsley during his 100k world record attempt on Saturday at the
HOKA Project Carbon X 2. Running one 2:35 marathon isn’t easy. Running two back-to-back plus another 9.7 miles (15.61 km) is incredibly impressive, even more so when you’ve got blood pouring out of your left shoulder for the second half of the race (Walmsley got caught on some fencing as he passed a female runner around halfway).
Walmsley bloodied shoulder didn’t help