On Feb. 19, U.S. ultrarunning legend Camille Herron broke her earlier girls’s 100-mile world file time of 12:42:40 on the Jackpot Ultras in Nevada, which hosted the 2022 USATF 100-mile Championships. Herron obtained redemption after her fourth-place end final 12 months, profitable the race outright in 12:41:11, forward of the primary male, Arlen Glick, who was second in 13:10:25.
🇺🇸 Congratulations to @runcamille for setting a brand new 100 Mile World Report in 12:41:11 at Jackpot Ultras. She beat her earlier mark of 12:42:40!
Herron topped her prev WR set FIVE YEARS AGO which was on a monitor (2017), whereas this course had a pair thousand ft of elevation. pic.twitter.com/PKKqvDN5a4
— USA Ultrarunning (@USAultrarunning) February 19, 2022
Glick received final 12 months’s Javelina Jundred, the place Herron received the ladies’s race and set a brand new course file.
Within the technique of setting the 100-mile world file, Herron additionally broke her earlier 12-hour file of 149 kilometres, setting a brand new file of 152 km.
In 2020, Herron skilled accidents and setbacks which held her again from competing at her greatest. “I felt wholesome, humbled, hungry to redeem myself, and most significantly, able to let the magic come out,” Herron mentioned on her social media web page after the race.
Herron, who not too long ago turned 40, beat her earlier world file from 2017 by nearly a minute and a half – averaging 4 minutes and 44 seconds per kilometre.
In 2019, Herron set the 24-hour world file by working a complete of 270 kilometres at a mean of 5 minutes and 20 seconds per kilometre.