Evan Dunfee

Olympic medalist for walking fast || World Champion || @canfund || Fast Walker ||

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

Sunday’s 5km was 95.7% of my PB
Today was 95.5% of my PB.
So that puts me around 1:26 for the half marathon at Nationals in a couple weeks if I can maintain the trend.

And I guess when people ask how injury recovery is going I can say I’m about 95% of the way there?

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

✅ Canadian title and automatic qualifier for Commonwealth Games secured!

26 degrees, and definitely hotter on the track so I’m pleased to get under 40min! Pacing was spot on until I started to drift a little bit just after 8km, really had to dig deep the last km and get back on pace and then a 1:29 last lap.

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@pnwprincess23 Hope you locked in!

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Always a treat when mentioned in the same paragraph as the likes of Sawe and @MountainRoche!

Thanks for the inclusion @tckahler, best of luck with the Marathon build!

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@MattIlich @kareemformayor I wonder how much of Sydney, Nova Scotia’s tourism comes from that mix up!

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@DavisJKyle Good luck Davis! I hope the experience gained in 2022 helps you on the campaign trail this go around.

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

Did a 5km at the Jesse Bent track meet yesterday and looking through my old training after discovered that I inadvertently had a really good race against my *2011* self from the same meet.

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

@tckahler Interesting! So different from my protocol with Umara. I specifically take my doses with food. Good luck with the experimenting and congrats on the sub 9!

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

@tckahler Interesting. Do they recommend to take it with food?
I do wonder if for a 3km earlier would be better. For the marathon 90min probably works well though, and saves you from the 3am wake up calls that I have 😮‍💨

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@GlennYoung_PE Sara and I were there yesterday! Hopefully you’re less behind then we were 🤦‍♂️
I sent a bunch of notes. I suspect Sara and I will be helping out at more next year!

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Spent 30+ hours the last 5 days volunteering at Elementary School track meets. My voice is wrecked, but so much fun.
Playing a role in helping kids fall in love with the sport I fell in love with, not much that compares to that!

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@andrewjgunn Love to hear it! We had a blast at try track day.

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@SherSherWarner Thanks Sherri!

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I honestly don’t know how the horses are going to do some of those Ninja Warrior obstacles.

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@Predamame But then how do you pick between them? A bunch of them don’t even need to rely on the rankings, they got automatic standards!

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

@Predamame Fun fact: to be an above average IOC president of the 9 who have held the role, one must simply not be a fan of Hitler.

[Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee]

I mean, objectively this is untrue. Yes, GB has tougher criteria, but its consideration standards are not the same as the WA auto standards.

The GB way of doing it sucks and is bad and federations that refuse to take the maximum qualified athletes should be punished in some way by WA.

Two things can be true.

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The amount of people who are seemingly fans of our sport who are either willfully or ignorantly misrepresenting the qualification standards for world champs is wild to me. It has to be engagement bait, right?
Standards are designed to achieve 40% of the target number. Other 60% through World Rankings. This is very simple stuff. Last time they were aiming for 50% so yah, they got harder 🤯

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@DecathletesOfEu This is the kind of qualification scrutiny I want to see all over my timeline!