Kilian bg attempt

[Travs]

Sure he is a good professional runner but IMO that puts him in an entirely different league to the average good runner that was likely to pit themselves to have a crack at another very good runners record e.g. Billy Blands BGR record and maybe have a chance of coming close or even beating Billys record
However there is now a record set by a full time professional runner that the average good runner that needs to train , hold down a full time job , self finance etc. etc. has little or no chance of coming near to.
IMO comparing a professionals time against an amateurs time is along way short of offering a level playing field.
Just maybe there should be a record for professionals and another for amateurs, just to give the amateurs a realistic goal.

Killian Jornet may well be a professional runner/racer, but off the back of one record breaking run, to now suddenly call Billy Bland's record, just an "amateur record" is doing him a bit of a dis-service in my humble opinion.

Nobody got near for 36 years. Everybody said it was unbeatable. Even Killian Jornet would likely not have had the resources to beat it without a team of highly elite pacers. He quite obviously has more speed than Billy Bland, but I'm sure a few people did... and he soundly thrashed the record, but it doesn't make the previous record any less unbelievable.... does anyone think any less of Joss Naylor's Wainwrights record now that he is no longer the record holder...?

I think to have two records is just confusing matters. And if anyone on the planet is even remotely capable of challenging Killian Jornet's new record, then it is probably Carl Bell, Rob Jebb or Ricky Lightfoot. All "amateur" fell runners.

Absolutely no offence meant to you, but to call the previous record setters, and today's crop of Fell runners, as not real runners, is a little harsh. There's a reason the record wasn't beaten for so long, and nobody came over to have a serious go, and that's because it was a super-human record. Killian Jornet just happened to be another super-human!

I'd personally love to see him stick around and have a go at Wasdale or the LDMT... might be a different story? I'm sure he'd do well though...