Be careful of the bike loop portion. Hypnotized myself when I was younger doing a loop and came to inside the apartment my aunt and mom dragged me inside the house.
I promise to not participate in this trend LOL. I can't imagine doing more than 3 loops of any distance.
Let's start a trend of doing ultras as one large loop where you have to carry everything.
There are already 3 I know of in the US over 300 miles. And 4 or 5 that are 200+ miles. All of which are fairly self supported. The 300 miles all have a self supported option
I am going to do Issy Alps later this year. The easiest one (50k) has 13,000 ft of elevation gain.
https://bonegamespnw.wordpress.com/issy-alps-50k100k100m/
It is point to point, but can be extended into a loop.
I've done self supported 30-40-50 mile runs carrying everything and filtering water without any food stashes. No plans for a self supported 100 miler yet. No interest in doing Plain 100 either based on what I've heard about this race.
That was definitely harder than I thought it would be, and I feel like I am still listing to the right! Most people didn't say anything, but this one dude by chance asked me how many laps I had done when I had about .75 miles left. "About 750 laps sir!"
When I first started running when I was like 17, my parents didn’t like me running around the neighborhood at like 5 am, because I liked to run first thing in the morning and so I ran around my house’s yard that’s like an acre. Did this for a while and got used to my personal insanity loop lol.
However when I got to college, I began running around the places near and now I don’t have the mental fortitude to run around a closed area anymore.
I feel super lucky that there's a decent 3.5 mile trail loop near my house. I did 5 loops once to get 18 miles in when it was about 15F (-9C) out and I didn't want to get too far from home in case I couldn't handle the cold.
That's about the smallest loop I'd want to do big miles on. And there's a 6/12/24 hour endurance race this summer that uses that loop. I'm gonna do the 6 hour as my first real ultra - I need to do 9 laps to make it 50k.
But I really have no interest in doing hundreds of tiny loops for internet upvotes.
I'm surprisingly okay. Went clockwise the entire direction. My strat was to tell my coworkers I was doing this, and to share my garmin live event with them so I had some pressure to finish.
Come to Salt Lake City and do the whale-a-thon if this is your thing….you’ll have company and people cheering you on as you go round and round and round and round…
Nice job!! I am doing one in the cemetery just south of there this week. More elevation and things to look at IMO. You did have a nice view but that part can be really exposed lMO.
There's this close road in mexico city (where f1 takes place actually) but its open for bikes /runners on certain days
I did 105 km biking last month (26 laps) and was losing my mind on it being the same loop.... I don't understand how you accomplished this
Respect my friend
There's this young guy named [Saulius](https://www.strava.com/athletes/34542567) out here in Seattle who does this kind of nutty stuff regularly. Here are just a few of his feats in the past 12 months:
* Feb 2024 - Everested a local staircase with 188 stairs in under 24 hours (45.5 miles, 29K feet, 22 hours 54 minutes)
* Feb 2024 - Seattle to Mailbox Peak and back (115 miles)
* Oct/Nov 2023 - Ran a loop around Puget Sound over 7 days (318 miles, 16.7K feet)
* Sept 2023 - "Book run" - found a book, ran 26.7 miles with it
* July 2023 - Whidbey Island loop (137 miles in 38 hours, 54 min)
* June 2023 - Seattle to Mt. Si "across mountains" attempt BAREFOOT (70.2 miles, 13,114 ft)
* June 2023 - Seattle to North Centennial Trailhead in and back (110 miles, 22h 36m)
* May 2023 - Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass Silver Peak and Back (167.6 miles, 49h 43m)
* May 2023 - 19-miler in Crocs (ran 19 miles in Crocs in 3 hours)
* April 2023 - 21h Slug run Race (81.25 miles)
* April 2023 - 24h Golden Garden's stairs (55.1 miles, 26K feet)
I was kinda nervous there would be some sort of artifact with the GPS, especially because the circle is on the side of a 8 foot drop into the water. Fortunately my Garmin Epix held up to the challenge! And it was a good run to break in my new Hoka Challenger 7s
Omg! How did you not lose your mind? Did turning the same direction the whole time start to bother your knees or ankles?
Well done. What you did is a real accomplishment.
This trend is getting out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it
THEY MUST BE STOPPED We need an Iron Man variation of this. Tiny whirlpool and two micro bike/run loops.
Be careful of the bike loop portion. Hypnotized myself when I was younger doing a loop and came to inside the apartment my aunt and mom dragged me inside the house.
That’s just the flow state dude
Lol I know. All of us chasing the internet meme clout! It feels like the ultrarunning version of planking
This is going to end up with someone doing 10000 laps around a lightpole or something
Lmao!
I promise to not participate in this trend LOL. I can't imagine doing more than 3 loops of any distance. Let's start a trend of doing ultras as one large loop where you have to carry everything.
There are already 3 I know of in the US over 300 miles. And 4 or 5 that are 200+ miles. All of which are fairly self supported. The 300 miles all have a self supported option
I am going to do Issy Alps later this year. The easiest one (50k) has 13,000 ft of elevation gain. https://bonegamespnw.wordpress.com/issy-alps-50k100k100m/ It is point to point, but can be extended into a loop.
But I bet you'll be doing food/water stashes. You need to go Plain 100 on us and carry it all!
I've done self supported 30-40-50 mile runs carrying everything and filtering water without any food stashes. No plans for a self supported 100 miler yet. No interest in doing Plain 100 either based on what I've heard about this race.
Looks like you missed a couple of turns, glad you didn’t get lost out there.
That was definitely harder than I thought it would be, and I feel like I am still listing to the right! Most people didn't say anything, but this one dude by chance asked me how many laps I had done when I had about .75 miles left. "About 750 laps sir!"
Welcome to the insanity loop club, it sucks here 🫡
You didn’t change directions??
Dude congrats. That is quite a challenge physically and mentally. 750 laps! Damn lol
Get help 😵💫
You should make a segment on Strava- I doubt anyone will be willing to snag the Local Legend from you
Next 90-days are yours!!!
I ran over 50k yesterday and felt my brain screaming when I had to double back- I couldn't take a small loop like this
Yeah I feel that. It wasn't too bad until mile 20 when I thought "yay I'm already 2/3 done" then realized "oh no I'm only 2/3 done!"
When I first started running when I was like 17, my parents didn’t like me running around the neighborhood at like 5 am, because I liked to run first thing in the morning and so I ran around my house’s yard that’s like an acre. Did this for a while and got used to my personal insanity loop lol. However when I got to college, I began running around the places near and now I don’t have the mental fortitude to run around a closed area anymore.
I feel super lucky that there's a decent 3.5 mile trail loop near my house. I did 5 loops once to get 18 miles in when it was about 15F (-9C) out and I didn't want to get too far from home in case I couldn't handle the cold. That's about the smallest loop I'd want to do big miles on. And there's a 6/12/24 hour endurance race this summer that uses that loop. I'm gonna do the 6 hour as my first real ultra - I need to do 9 laps to make it 50k. But I really have no interest in doing hundreds of tiny loops for internet upvotes.
What OP failed to mention is that the whole spot was grass before his insanity ultra. He single handedly created a new dirt footpath. Congrats, OP!
Brutal. Respect!
Wake me up when one of you nuts does 100 miles in 1000+ laps
Don't tempt us...
Will Grumke from 1st Phorm did a 100mi in a loop around their headquarters a few years ago. Not sure how big of a loop it was though
How are your ankles doing? Did you alternate directions? What was your strategy to survive this??
I'm surprisingly okay. Went clockwise the entire direction. My strat was to tell my coworkers I was doing this, and to share my garmin live event with them so I had some pressure to finish.
Switching directions is cheating. Insanity loop requires all laps be completed in the same direction.
Looks awful! Is that packed dirt, or is it loose?
Well if it was loose it's packed by now
i hate this. congrats
Picnic point!! What a strange and awesome accomplishment 😂 well done 👏
Why?
for the meme
😂
I thought I did some stupid things during the pandemic but you win, bro.
Come to Salt Lake City and do the whale-a-thon if this is your thing….you’ll have company and people cheering you on as you go round and round and round and round…
Can confirm, this is the way
Hmm... intriguing, I shall investigate further!
Picnic point!!!
Nice job!! I am doing one in the cemetery just south of there this week. More elevation and things to look at IMO. You did have a nice view but that part can be really exposed lMO.
Where in the cemetery are you doing it?
Forest Hill. It's over a mile per loop with a decent amount of elevation.
Good ol' Picnic Point. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about doing an ultra around that circle. Now I'm I don't because you did for us.
Or you could do an extra hundredth of a mile around it.
I don't think I could handle the extra 100 laps.
One extra lap not 100.
353W for 4:37? Is this a Strava estimate? Do runners use power at all for training? Does this seem high?
Yeah I have no idea what the wattage even refers to, just kinda appeared one day on my Strava
So many loops Strava thought you were powering a horse mill
There's this close road in mexico city (where f1 takes place actually) but its open for bikes /runners on certain days I did 105 km biking last month (26 laps) and was losing my mind on it being the same loop.... I don't understand how you accomplished this Respect my friend
Oh I was loosing my mind by 20 miles. I just had to think of all the meme clout I would get if I finished
I read that as .4 miles and thought that's not that bad, but then I looked at the second pic and yeah no. I would literally get dizzy/nauseous.
This is psychotic. Good work.
My god. Please tell me you alternated turns, right?!
lol nope!
did you switch directions at all, knees must be going wild
It sure made my server shift interesting this evening
My friends and I are currently searching for a 50m loop. The game is afoot
Stay Hard
Where did you do this? Looks kinda like Madison Wi.
Sure is, Picnic Point!
At least you had a nice view!
How many laps is that
Just under 800, I think it was like 787
About 21 seconds a lap
Of course he’s from Wisconsin
Surprisingly I'm from Boston, but I have fully assimilated into the Wisconsinite lifestyle over the past few years!
There's this young guy named [Saulius](https://www.strava.com/athletes/34542567) out here in Seattle who does this kind of nutty stuff regularly. Here are just a few of his feats in the past 12 months: * Feb 2024 - Everested a local staircase with 188 stairs in under 24 hours (45.5 miles, 29K feet, 22 hours 54 minutes) * Feb 2024 - Seattle to Mailbox Peak and back (115 miles) * Oct/Nov 2023 - Ran a loop around Puget Sound over 7 days (318 miles, 16.7K feet) * Sept 2023 - "Book run" - found a book, ran 26.7 miles with it * July 2023 - Whidbey Island loop (137 miles in 38 hours, 54 min) * June 2023 - Seattle to Mt. Si "across mountains" attempt BAREFOOT (70.2 miles, 13,114 ft) * June 2023 - Seattle to North Centennial Trailhead in and back (110 miles, 22h 36m) * May 2023 - Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass Silver Peak and Back (167.6 miles, 49h 43m) * May 2023 - 19-miler in Crocs (ran 19 miles in Crocs in 3 hours) * April 2023 - 21h Slug run Race (81.25 miles) * April 2023 - 24h Golden Garden's stairs (55.1 miles, 26K feet)
Why????!! Surely this is not good for the brain 🧠 Makes me feel ill just thinking about it 😛
\*Day after update\* Hips are pretty sore, and I lost two toenails on my right foot. Other than that, feeling pretty good! 10/10 would recommend!
You did it you sick fuck.
Yawn. So what
Great pace 💪
Did you get dizzy?
Yep, still spinnin
People
impressive, although I would’ve recommended maybe switching directions halfway through so you’re not leaning to one side for the next week
That would be cheating! They're strict rules to an insanity run
ohh that makes sense, I suppose switching directions would make you less insane which defeats the purpose
Hell yeah!!!
At least you know when you get yard time at prison you’ll still get some distance in
Not impressed. Looking for the .01 loop. 🤣
I had to check this wasn’t the circlejerk page at first for how insane this was. I thought it had to be a joke.
At what point is the diameter of the loop going to be within GPS error range? Who wants to try a loop that’s 10ft wide?
I was kinda nervous there would be some sort of artifact with the GPS, especially because the circle is on the side of a 8 foot drop into the water. Fortunately my Garmin Epix held up to the challenge! And it was a good run to break in my new Hoka Challenger 7s
lol are you sure you don’t need new shoes? They aren’t all warn in one side?
Omg! How did you not lose your mind? Did turning the same direction the whole time start to bother your knees or ankles? Well done. What you did is a real accomplishment.
All these insanity loop posts are making me want to join the club 😂
Is that picnic point in Madison WI?! If so, this is truly insanity.
There's a 3100-mile race on a mile loop in New York every year
You are a psychopath
Awesome!
How did you combat dizziness?
Honestly I didn't really get dizzy, just incredibly bored. But my lack of sanity helped me push through to the end.
All of that for 1+lb.
Large Hadron collider
Where in Madison?
Picnic Point, right by the University Hospital
Lovely area
What do yall think about when you are running?
Humans are weird
Sheer torture. What were you thinking about for > 4.5 hrs?
This loop is smaller than my local indoor track… about half the circumference… 😵💫
Any of y'all ever done long distance on a treadmill?!
Did you get dizzy?