If you have never seen the documentary on this it’s worth a watch 100miles and 60k ft of climbing. In the dark, through brambles. The man that organises it is completely cracked.
by cowie71
If you have never seen the documentary on this it’s worth a watch 100miles and 60k ft of climbing. In the dark, through brambles. The man that organises it is completely cracked.
by cowie71
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Forgot to say that Jasmin is from the UK hence the post
Watch the documentary about this race. It’s fascinating
I’d like to see the picture of this amazing lady with the cat waiting for a belly rub I read about!!!
What a remarkable lady
She’s an amazing athlete, and this is an incredible achievement.
This came up on my Facebook feed for some reason. Absolutely mental.
Undoubtedly one of the great ultra running / ultramarathon efforts. Bravo.
This race is just mental above any other ultra marathons because:
– the start time is not announced until about an hour before hand, where the organiser blows into a conch. It could be midday or 2am!
– the terrain around there is steep, hilly and you have to cross through a lot of thicket / brambles.
– the route is somewhat vague. there’s only one map and you have to kind of work it out from there.
– you’re not allowed gps guidance
– even though it’s laps of the same route, you have to do alternating clockwise / anti clockwise for the first 4 laps, then it’s down to organisers whim what direction you go on the last lap.
– you will more than likely have to wade through a storm drain underneath a prison on each lap.
Over the past 40 or so years this event has been ran, there’s like 17 people who have completed the five laps in the allocated time frame.
One of the competitors won a race late last year where he ran 425 miles over 4.25 days. He tapped out on Loop 2, Jasmin finished 5 loops.
Nah thanks I’d rather eat a battenberg and watch the footy :))
It has been the best 60 hours of the year so far with an amazing result at the end.
I can only assume with 5 finishers this year Laz will be step it up somehow next year.
Two years ago, one bloke got lost on lap 4, started hallucinating and made it to the local town. He was shouting at bins for being on fire, and the police had to bring him back to the race location.
> Only 20 people have ever made it to the end of the race within the allotted 60 hours since it was extended to 100 miles in 1989
This puts into context just how huge an achievement this is. It’s not just the first woman, she’s one of only a tiny handful of people in the world
Well done girl, incredible achievement. Brilliant documentary. I hope they made one this year.
Amazing. I also read somewhere that she somehow expressed breastmilk for her young son during the race – anyone know if that is true? Not sure on the logistics, but if so, that adds an extra level of awesomeness to what her body and mind has just achieved.
Absolutely incredible result! 100 miles is a conservative guess at the distance as well, it’s probably closer to 130 miles.