At Lululemon’s Further event, the 42-year-old averaged 93 miles of running a day and broke a total of 11 world records
At Further, Lululemon’s women’s-only six-day ultramarathon which concluded on Tuesday, Camille Herron ran 560.33 miles to break the 6-day women’s world record. The US athlete racked up a staggering 220 laps of the 2.56-mile course, averaging 93.38 miles of running per day, and surpassed the old record — Sandra Barwick’s 549.063 miles from 1990 — by over 11 miles.
From 6 to 12 March, 10 women — Lululemon ambassadors from around the globe —attempted to run the furthest distance of their careers on a loop course at Lake Cahuilla in La Quinta, California. To support the athletes, Further was held in partnership with the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, the goal being to advance women-first research and address the gender gap in sports science.
Some of the other top finishers included Leah Yingling, one of the best ultramarathoners in the US, who cranked out an impressive 157 laps (400 miles), as well as Montana Farrah-Seaton, who logged the third-most laps at 124 (315.82 miles).
Ahead of the race, Yingling told RW that the furthest distance she’d covered to date was 108 miles in around 26 hours at last year’s UTMB.
‘Historically, running on a flat loop for days at a time has not been something that interested me,’ she said, speaking about Further’s loop course. ‘I’ve always found myself being more attracted to mountain races and trail races. [But] this is a special challenge – all of the community around it and all of my fellow ambassadors turned the switch in my head. With how well supported the event is, I thought: “I can be competitive in this”.’
Devon Yanko, who ran 313.3 miles (123 laps), also told RW: ‘It’s nice to have a theory of what I can do, but I’m excited to actually see.’
Herron posted on Instagram after the race, laying out the 11 world records she set on her way to the 6-day (144 hour) record.
