The Desert Solstice 24-hour and 100-mile Monitor Invitational came about in Phoenix, Ar. this Saturday, and Viktoria Brown grew to become the primary Canadian girl to run 100 miles in beneath 15 hours, setting a brand new Canadian document in 14:57:13.
Brown accomplished 404 laps (161.60km) in whole in 15:24:45.8 earlier than stopping resulting from an bronchial asthma assault. Regardless of this, she nonetheless managed to break the earlier Canadian ladies’s 100-mile document, held by Michelle LeDuc of Russell, Ont., in 15:19:45. “It was all very very unusual as a result of at no level did I really feel nice, but I might simply hold going at surprising paces,” says Brown. “Each level within the race from the start I saved pondering “this doesn’t really feel as simple because it ought to at this level within the race”, but I by no means blew up.”
After about 13-and-a-half hours of working Brown’s bronchial asthma started to flare up, however she knew she was on tempo to interrupt 15 hours, so she pushed on anyway. As soon as she reached the 100-mile mark, she took a break to attempt to get her respiration beneath management, and managed to get by means of two extra laps earlier than lastly calling it quits.
Finally, Brown completed because the sixth girl and thirteenth general. Marisa Lizak of California was the highest girl, working 564 laps for a complete of 225.60km in 23:59:41. Arizona’s Nick Coury was the highest general finisher, finishing 696 laps for a complete of 278.44km in 23:59:53. Arlen Glick, who gained the Javelina Jundred in November, was the fifth male finisher (eighth general) for a complete of 518 laps (207.20km). Camille Herron, who was the highest feminine finisher and course record-holder on the Javelina Jundred, was the seventh-place runner behind Brown (sixteenth general), and ran 403 laps for 161.20km.
Viktoria Brown breaks Canadian W45 100-mile document in North Carolina
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