Trail & Ultra Running Thread

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And on they go. Incredible mental ability to keep going.

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7909

If Iā€™m reading it right there are still 12 runners including 2 women, and they are through 600km? :exploding_head::exploding_head::exploding_head:

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7910

The womenā€™s world record has been broken - by the last two women still standing. Incredible and still going strong.

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7911

One of the ladies is a brit, Sara Perry. I say this every year but I just canā€™t comprehend how they do it. Only another 27 hours ish to break the overall world record :roll_eyes:

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7912

Megan didnā€™t complete yard 93 so Sarah is last woman standing

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7913

Was also just made aware of this. Had totally passed me by when it happened.

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7914

Sarah dropped after 95 yards. From inov8 website

Speaking shortly afterwards Sarah said: "Iā€™ve got mixed emotions. Iā€™m quite disappointed that my back went when everything else was working so well. I had it in my legs and my head on reaching 100 laps, something I was really fixed on, but thatā€™s ultra running.

ā€œItā€™s going to take a while to process it all. I just need to catch up on sleep and then process what Iā€™ve achieved.ā€

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7915

637km is an amazing distance for Sarah

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7916

9 of them left

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7917

Incredible, what a race she has had. I dread to think what recovery is like. Its bad enough after 100 miles.

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7918

Down to 7

677km

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7920

I think we have a winner after 475 miles !

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7921

Also on the iPlayer until this evening (timestamp 27:30)

7922

Heard about this on the Centurion podcast. FMD, how is that even possible?

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7923

Awesome and I think faster ascent than the Alpe de Huez cycling record 1120m / 37 mins? Although guess a cyclist has to lug the weight of a bike up too, so kind of makes sense.

7924

And goes a lot further with the switchbacks.

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7925

Iā€™m not sure you can that a ā€œworld recordā€ but a ā€œbest on that courseā€ unless itā€™s recognised as THE course for WR attempts. There are many VK courses around - all different with different gradients

7926

Thereā€™s a world record for the marathon though, right? Independent of the course (within accepted criteria around not being super downhill for example)

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7927

I wondered that but I suppose it doesnā€™t matter what the course is

If the course is steeper (and therefore shorter) or not (and therefore longer) it doesnā€™t matter - itā€™s still how fast you can do 1000m up?

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