Camille Herron: US ultrarunner who breaks world records fuelled on tacos and beer
Camille Herron is no ordinary athlete. But then again, no ordinary athlete would run 655 and a half laps around a track for 24 hours.
Nor would they break two world records in doing so. Herron ran 162.9 miles in 24 hours and completed the first 100 miles in 13 hours and 25 minutes at December's Desert Solstice in Arizona, both new women's records on the track.
Fast food and zombies
Any long-distance runner knows the pain of hitting that invisible brick wall but when it hit Herron, she still had six more hours to run. She had watched the sun set but it was yet still to rise.
Thankfully, she and her husband had a contingency plan in place. It involved a dash to her favourite fast food restaurant. "We decided that if I got to a point like that, I would try to take in more sustenance," she says. "They had actually gone to Taco Bell and got some double-decker tacos ready for me, and some beer.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/46566122
Camille Herron is no ordinary athlete. But then again, no ordinary athlete would run 655 and a half laps around a track for 24 hours.
Nor would they break two world records in doing so. Herron ran 162.9 miles in 24 hours and completed the first 100 miles in 13 hours and 25 minutes at December's Desert Solstice in Arizona, both new women's records on the track.
Fast food and zombies
Any long-distance runner knows the pain of hitting that invisible brick wall but when it hit Herron, she still had six more hours to run. She had watched the sun set but it was yet still to rise.
Thankfully, she and her husband had a contingency plan in place. It involved a dash to her favourite fast food restaurant. "We decided that if I got to a point like that, I would try to take in more sustenance," she says. "They had actually gone to Taco Bell and got some double-decker tacos ready for me, and some beer.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/46566122
