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Camille Herron: American ultrarunner breaks own 100-mile women's world record
Who needs transaletes? [BBC] American endurance athlete Camille Herron has broken her own women's world record in winning the USA Track and Field 100-mile Championships in Nevada.The 40-year-old beat her previous mark by almost a minute and a half, winning in 12 hours 41 minutes 11 seconds - averaging around 7:37 minutes per mile. She finished almost half an hour ahead of first male athlete Arlen Glick, who came home in 13:10:25. "What a difference a year makes," said Herron, who was fourth in 2021. Camille Herron: Record-breaker fuelled on tacos and beer "I came back healthy, humbled, hungry to redeem myself, and [ready] to let the magic come out." In her first event as a Masters racer in the 40-44 age range, she also broke the 50-mile world record in that age group with a time of 6:08:24. My apologies for accidentally deleting Skidmark’s post. Here it is, reconstituted, including Merrick’s posted comment. — trailing wife at 10:20 a.m. ET #1 In other news, UPenn's Lia Thomas (transitioned from M to F, pronouns she/her) defeated Yale's Iszac Henig (transitioning from F to M, pronouns he/him) to nab the Ivy League women's [sic(k)] freestyle crown Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-21 00:36 Posted by: trailing wife 2022-02-21 |
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