American ultrarunner Jennifer Russo has set a brand new ladies’s yard extremely world document by finishing 496.21 km on the Capital Yard Extremely in Lorton, Va. The 57-year-old mom of three from New Richmond, Ohio, completed the multi-day race Tuesday after working 74 yards—or 74 laps of the 6.706-km course—in a contest that started Saturday.
The yard extremely race format requires members to start out one “yard” (loop) each hour on the hour, till just one runner stays. (Yard racing is designed in order that theoretically, runners can full the 100-mile distance in 24 hours.)
Russo’s newest effort tops the earlier ladies’s world document of 68 yards set by American Courtney Dauwalter at Massive’s Yard Extremely in Bell Buckle, Tenn., in 2020. With this week’s race in Lorton, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Russo additionally turns into the primary American feminine to succeed in 300 miles (482.8 kilomtres) inside 72 hours in any race format. Her 74 yards additionally places her in a four-way tie for sixteenth for the longest distance ever lined within the yard extremely format.
These achievements got here on the finish of a gruelling standoff between Russo and Scott Snell of New Jersey. The pair battled alone on the course for nearly half a day after Levi Yoder of Dundee, Ohio, who completed with the third-highest complete of yards, couldn’t full his sixty fourth lap. Snell finally outlasted Russo within the showdown, successful the occasion by working 75 yards, or simply beneath 503 km.
The race additionally noticed an impressive effort by Canada’s Viktoria Brown. The runner from Whitby, Ont., racked up the second-highest variety of yards among the many race’s six feminine rivals, finishing 49 yards and ending the race within the high six. Brown, who in March broke her personal 48-hour Canadian and 72-hour world information on the GOMU (World Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners) six-day world championships in Policoro, Italy, got here simply seven laps in need of the ladies’s Canadian yard extremely document set by Amanda Nelson of Woodstock, Ont., earlier this month on the Race of Champions-Yard Masters in Rettert, Germany.
Fellow Canadian Justin Wright additionally cracked the highest 10 on the Capital Yard Extremely. The runner from Leamington, Ont., accomplished 36 yards—241.4km—to complete tenth general within the discipline of 31 rivals.
