Comparing Kazami and Walmsley's Runs

American Jim Walmsley gave the men's world record set two and a half years ago by Japan's Nao Kazami a serious scare this weekend at the Project Carbon X 2 100 km. A quick look at their splits shows two different race strategies, Kazami essentially going out hard and slowing the second half and Walmsley running the first half more conservatively and then trying to negative split. Both had