5 months after the 12-hour file was shattered in Israel, Finnish ultrarunner Satu Lipiäinen achieved a brand new file on Might 21 on the Kokkola Extremely Run in Finland. Not solely did she emerge victorious within the ladies’s race, however she additionally claimed the general title by protecting a formidable distance of 153.600 kilometres inside the 12-hour time-frame.
Lipiäinen broke the file by the closest of margins, exceeding the earlier 12-hour file of 152.633 kilometres run by Poland’s Dominika Stelmach in January by one kilometre. Lipiäinen is the primary lady from a Nordic nation to set an ultrarunning world file.
She not solely broke the ladies’s world 12-hour file, however she additionally surpassed the Finnish males’s nationwide 12-hour file of 148.750 kilometres by almost 5K. Based on Finland’s athletics federation, Finlands Friidrottsförbund, that is the primary time a ladies’s file in an athletics self-discipline is quicker than the lads’s.
To place her new 12-hour file in perspective, it’s 4 consecutive marathons run in 3:17.45, or averaging 4 minutes and 41 seconds per kilometre for 153 km. Lipiäinen now holds Finnish information in 5 official ultrarunning disciplines: 50 km, 100 km, 100 miles, 6 hours and 12 hours.
Regardless of operating a world file, Lipiäinen stated our her weblog that she went out method too quick. “The preliminary aim tempo was imagined to be 4:30/km, however I received out within the vary of 4:15-4:20/km,” she wrote. “My coronary heart fee saved beneath management, so I didn’t see the necessity to decelerate.”
Lipiäinen stated on her weblog that she felt overwhelmed when she started listening to discussions a few potential world file just a few hours earlier than reaching the end line.
She described her expertise within the remaining few hours as magical. “Though individuals have been speaking about it, I didn’t know the way near the world file I used to be. I didn’t wish to must speed up, and not one of the racers knowledgeable me in regards to the state of affairs,” wrote Lipiäinen.
