Joggling race, 17 April 2006

Klaas_Bil · April 15, 2006, 10:30pm

Tomorrow, Monday 17 April 2006, Zach Warren and Michal Kapral will race directly against each other for the world record for joggling a marathon. Joggling is the sport of running while juggling three objects. The event will take place during the Boston Marathon. A finish time around 3 hours is expected for the two, who plan to run side by side for the first 20 miles, maybe even 25 miles.

Zach Warren is the current world record holder for joggling a marathon with a time of 3:07:05, bettering Kapral’s previous record by a mere 46 seconds. Zach is also aiming at breaking the one-hour distance Guinness record on a unicycle (his attempt a few weeks ago failed due to mechanical failure), and - at a later stage - the Guinness record for fastest 100 miles on a unicycle.

More on this, including the charity aspects for each of them, in the following links:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144965014049&call_pageid=968867503640&col=970081593064&t=TS_Home

Zach’s website: http://www.unicycle4kids.org/

And also: THIS SUNDAY (April 16): National Public Radio (NPR) All Things Considered – interview slated for 5 pm show.

Jerrick · April 16, 2006, 12:06am

Cant wait to see the results =p

dan_de_man · April 16, 2006, 6:25am

hey what is the fastes 10 miles on a uni

MERCYME · April 16, 2006, 7:02am

Good luck to the both of them.

James_Potter · April 16, 2006, 7:27am

I saw that in Runners World Magazine…pretty cool. I’ve gone joggling a little bit, it is pretty fun.

BillyTheMountain · April 18, 2006, 6:51am

Results???

JJuggle · April 18, 2006, 7:51am

Record-setter Warren had a ball with this one - Boston Globe, April 18, 2006

Klaas_Bil · April 18, 2006, 10:39am

Zach himself wrote to his circle of e-mail friends:

I finished in 2:58:23, about 911th place in a field of 20,000, and breaking my previous world record by 8:42. Michal Kapral, national joggling champion of Canada, came in 3:06:45, which broke my Philadelphia marathon record time by 20 seconds. We hung together until the 17 mile mark and then I picked it up for the hills.

Had some good press on NPR and CBS and a few others, though they cut short or cut out everything in these interviews related to our charities… We’ll try to get them in again on CNN later this week, and ESPN the next.

This is not the last of Kapral! The Scotia Bank marathon has offered to sponsor us for another duel on his home turf, in Canada.

Body feels like a cross between gumby and the tin man. Thanks for all your support !! Extra thanks to Debby for organizing race day and keeping me sane, to Ty, Andreas, Duncan and Dana for help in preparing and distributing the fundraising materials with pizazz (and juggling balls), and to my competitor, Michal, who has a heart of gold.

Zach

*Verification pending by Sport Juggling Federation (ISJF), USA Juggling, and Guinness World Records. ISJF provided USATF “course spotters” and arranged the video footage through news media.

Checkpoints:
5k 0:22:13
10k 0:43:30
15k 1:04:52
20k 1:26:05
Half 1:30:26
25k 1:46:36
30k 2:07:38
35k 2:28:08
40k 2:49:07

Finish:
Start Time Offset 01:56
Pace 0:06:49
Official Time 2:58:23
Overall 911
Gender 872
Division 634

So I say: proof once more that unicyclists rule! Zach is DA MAN!

Klaas_Bil · April 18, 2006, 11:03am

Zach’s distance versus time profile. Looks essentially like a straight line to me.

unisteve · April 18, 2006, 11:22am

That’s wicked. Keeping a steady pace over a long race like that is definitely a feat. Congrats to Mr. Zach Warren for his awesome accomplishment.

Klaas_Bil · April 18, 2006, 2:22pm

Joggling on tv:

http://www.wcsh6.com/includes/buildasx_oas-no4day.aspx?fn=mms://wm.wcsh-wlbz.gannett.edgestreams.net/news/041706_joggling_wcsh.wmv&sp=mms://wm.wcsh-wlbz.gannett.edgestreams.net/ads/sales/wcsh/021706_patriotsubaru-lost_wcsh.wmv