A woman who outruns men, 200 miles at a time

I saw her first at Joe Rogan&#x27;s podcast[1]. Far beyond the athletic achievement, I was amazed by her humility, how modest was she was during the entire conversation!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=V8DfjXnIk6c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=V8DfjXnIk6c</a>

FWIW, women beating men in ultra-marathon length events isn&#x27;t a new thing. Pam Reed won the Badwater Ultramarathon[1] outright in 2002 and 2003.<p>More insights on this topic can be found here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trailrunnermag.com&#x2F;people&#x2F;is-women-winning-ultras-overall-a-trend.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trailrunnermag.com&#x2F;people&#x2F;is-women-winning-ultras-ov...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Badwater_Ultramarathon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Badwater_Ultramarathon</a>

Her Moab 240 pace wasn&#x27;t actually that competitive, the exception is she didn&#x27;t sleep.<p>It will be interesting to see what this does to the sport, if it ends up becoming as much about performing for days without sleep as being physically capable of running 200+ miles.

Interesting topic. Terrible reporting. Conclusion is contradicted by the data:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iau-ultramarathon.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;file&#x2F;Records&#x2F;2017_2020_RecordsTable20181124.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iau-ultramarathon.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;file&#x2F;Records&#x2F;2017_20...</a>

The numbers for 2017 Moab 240 don&#x27;t seem reasonable to me: She ran the 238 miles in 58 hours. That&#x27;s 4.1 mph. She beat the next competitor for 10 hours or 20 miles. Now let&#x27;s focus on the competitor...<p>If 10 hours is 20 miles that&#x27;s 2 mph for the last 10 miles. First, that&#x27;s not running, that&#x27;s not even walking. I walk about 3.5 mph. So either the competitor spent a couple hours in bed or it doesn&#x27;t check out at all.<p>It&#x27;d also mean the competitor ran at 3.75 mph for the first 218 miles. Did they lose almost half the speed for the last 20 miles?

This is cool. I think it will be helpful to have more sports that don’t have gender or sex separated categories and finding activities where there aren’t biological advantages is important.

Would LOVE to see this as a summer Olympic sport. Talk about testing the absolute limits of human ability.