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Her post on facebook:

Kaiha Bertollini I am seriously thinking about reaching out and seeing if someone will give me a go pro, shoes, and spot tracker and re doing it. Its all I can think of at...

Karl is in his prime for a multiday event. Not for 100 mile races anymore. It's one thing to run 100 miles fast and a whole other world to run this kind of thing.

Scott Jurek was also new to the multiday running thing, just like Karl Meltzer was in 2008.
Karl learned from his 2 attempts and his Pony Express trail run.

I don't think that you can get more of a top end ultra trail runner than Karl Meltzer. There is a huge difference of being great in a 50 or 100 mile race or at a multi day run like the AT record...

But nobody knows how accurate that is, since they update this website only once a month ;-)

Actually that JPD didn't do much running might have worked a lot in her favor. You don't have to be fast on these long distance runs. You have to be steady and don't overdo it on ANY day. Once you...

Not really, if you have big injuries and fighting for every step. Half way on the AT is a little more than half way in a 100 miler.

Just Bill, I hope you are right.

I think, that Scott Jurek and Karl Meltzer (in his first attempt) underestimated the task of a multiday ultra. It looks a lot easier on paper than it actually is....

Of course you can't exactly compare. But the record is only 21 days away and 53 miles per day is a lot when you have shin splints.

Good to know. But with shin splints it will be very difficult. That is not something that goes away while you are doing hard long running days.

Exactly, the coverage on the red bull website was not that great so far.

1095.3 miles in 25 days = 43.812 miles per day
Scott Jurek had an average of 47.2 miles per day...

I would agree with these 20%. The trail is long and a lot can happen. But Karl is a good runner too. If he did his homework well, he should have a good chance to go for the record.
But its still...