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Honnold & Florine break Nose speed record- 2:23:51

One Day Hero

21-Jun-2012
6:50:38 PM

On 21/06/2012 sliamese wrote:

Thats a
>250m pitch, think you you'd do that?

On ground that's 90% gr19 or less, on a route I'd done 100 times, with a big enough rack? Yep, I'd do that.

Could I do it at even a quarter of the pace that these guys do? No, don't be silly, I'm not "the Usain Bolt of climbing"

One Day Hero

21-Jun-2012
7:45:04 PM

In terms of who might be able to give the record a shake, how about Lee Cossey and Leo Holding? Or what about Nico Favresse and Chuck Norris? They'd be pretty strong teams.

ARidgley

21-Jun-2012
8:27:46 PM

On 21/06/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>In terms of who might be able to give the record a shake, how about Lee
>Cossey and Leo Holding? Or what about Nico Favresse and Chuck Norris? They'd
>be pretty strong teams.

You're forgetting Captain Kirk and Spock. Honest omission? I think not.

gfdonc

27-Jun-2012
9:44:10 AM

Hans Florine has posted up a trip report, has been copied to SuperTopo:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1862472/Very-detailed-Nose-Speed-Record-log?utm-source=SuperTopo+purchasers+and+forum+up+to+3.22.11&utm-campaign=23bf89e469-SuperTopo-Climbing-News-May-26-20114-5-2011&utm-medium=email

pecheur

27-Jun-2012
9:49:58 AM

On 27/06/2012 gfdonc wrote:
>Hans Florine has posted up a trip report, has been copied to SuperTopo:
>
>http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1862472/Very-detailed-Nose-Speed-Record-log?utm-s
>urce=SuperTopo+purchasers+and+forum+up+to+3.22.11&utm-campaign=23bf89e469-SuperTopo-Climbi
>g-News-May-26-20114-5-2011&utm-medium=email

I was going to post that too, but I forgot ...

I loved the bit where Hans talks about Alex telling him to not to take various pieces of gear because he never falls there.

Would definitely be interesting to see a Potter / Honnold* run. The two best soloists of their generations going at it, obviously Hans is just too safe and carries / uses too much gear ;)

* Or as a non-climber friend calls them, the climbing base jumper and the checked shirt guy (from Alone on the Wall)


muki

27-Jun-2012
2:27:45 PM

On 21/06/2012 ARidgley wrote:

>You're forgetting Captain Kirk and Spock. Honest omission? I think not.

but Kirk fell on the 19th pitch and Spock held the fall remember ? so no onsight there

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