U.S. ultrarunner Candice Burt of Boulder, Colo. has reached her purpose of working an ultramarathon day-after-day for 200 days, a streak that shatters the earlier world report of 23 consecutive days of ultrarunning.
Day 200 / 6,436 miles / 32 miles a day
“I’m fairly drained… I believe I’ll go dwelling now” —Forrest Gump pic.twitter.com/XNTdUaDT5f
— Candice (@runcandice) Might 24, 2023
On Tuesday, the 41-year-old capped off the colossal feat she started on Nov. 5, working her remaining consecutive each day distance of a minimum of 50 km surrounded by associates and supporters in Boulder. She shared the event with the large social media following she has constructed in the course of the streak with a video displaying her crossing a makeshift end line with the message: “Day 200/6,436 miles/32 miles a day—’I’m fairly drained… I believe I’ll go dwelling now’ —Forrest Gump.”
Though Burt‘s streak—which noticed her run a complete distance of 10,357.74 km—has ended, she’s taking a sluggish, cautious method to easing off her mileage. She ran a marathon on her first time without work, and accomplished greater than 32 km on her run Thursday. She mentioned that whereas she’s been feeling good on her post-record runs, the tapering course of has helped her tune in to only how taxing it’s to run 200 ultras in 200 days. “I’m slowly feeling a bit extra,” she tweeted after Thursday’s run. “I don’t have a lot fatigue working even 20 miles, however as I taper off the world report, a part of me appears to be permitting myself to suppose, ‘my legs really feel tried as we speak’ as a substitute of getting to field that up and file it away.”
Day 150 / 4,836 miles / 32 miles a day
A becoming celebration of Day 150 was an virtually fully night time run beginning simply after midnight. Aside from the sleep deprivation, working at night time is nice since you don’t must cope with vehicles or folks and the desert comes alive… pic.twitter.com/W9UfcLbirg
— Candice (@runcandice) April 3, 2023
The mom of two had established herself as an completed ultrarunner properly earlier than setting out on her report try. She set the unsupported quickest recognized time (FKT) on the 170-mile Tahoe Rim Path and gained numerous ultramarathons together with the Delirious West 200-miler in Australia and the Extremely Fiord 100-miler in Chile.
Day 100 / 3,236 miles / 32 miles a day I’ve discovered via this streak to have fun day-after-day. Working 100 ultramarathons in 100 days I spotted every day is a present. Every end is a present. No run we do is any totally different, however we downplay the importance of our each day routine. pic.twitter.com/z1GXOEXZA7
— Candice (@runcandice) February 13, 2023
Burt, who can also be the race director for fashionable ultras together with the Moab 240 and Bigfoot 200, wrote in January that she set out on her newest extremely problem with out a clear goal, however understanding that she wished to attempt to surpass the earlier report of twenty-two days by a large margin. (Throughout Burt’s streak, Megan Cassidy of Kissimmee, Fla., nudged the report up after finishing a 23-day streak.)
File breaking day full 🐆 together with bobcat sighting! (I’m nonetheless streakin’ however enjoyable milestone) pic.twitter.com/bQDmZ3s8M6
— Candice (@runcandice) November 28, 2022
“From the very begin of contemplating the streak I simply wished to be open to doing it for so long as my physique would maintain up,” she wrote. I wasn’t certain if that will even be the record-breaking 23 days, however I wished to strive. In my head, my purpose was MUCH, MUCH larger than 23.”
“Most of all, although, I wished to do that degree of working, this insane quantity, to satiate my curiosity. See what I used to be able to. See how my physique adapts. Or if it may adapt.”
Burt has submitted documentation to the Guinness World Data to have her report verified.
