![]() “The concept I suppose is that if you go a little bit quicker you then get more of a break, so if you finish your loop in 40 minutes, you get 20 minutes to sit down, have some food and a drink.” ![]() So it’s a kind of pie in the sky thinking, of maybe well why not? Let’s just go for it.”Ĭompetitors got a three-minute warning before the start of each lap and have to complete a loop – 6.7km long – within an hour.īut it’s not a competition about speed, she says, and most of the loop can even be finished walking. “So I suppose I worked back from that and said the world record was run last year in Tennessee and that was 68 hours, in my head I suppose I was saying worst case scenario I’m going to be running for 68 hours and that’s about 35 hours further than I’d ever run before. “I have no idea really why I thought I could but it was something I had at the back of my head that this is an event that I could win. Of the Riverhead ultra marathon, she says she went in not knowing how long she could actually go on for but with a goal of winning it. “I think really the reason we’ve not seen a lot of women winning is actually more because there aren’t as many women competing.” “I think psychologically that aspect of not going out too quickly, of pacing yourself, women do tend to be a lot better at, stereotypically and I think we’re seeing that with a lot of other endurance events. Listen to the full interview with Katie Wright
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