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Camille Herron breaks 12-hour, 100-mile masters records in South Carolina

The result adds yet another couple of world records to Herron's resume

Camille Herron Photo by: Lululemon

American ultrarunner Camille Herron set multiple masters world records and American records on Saturday, breaking her own 12-hour and 100-mile bests on the track at the Raven 24-Hour race in South Carolina. Herron first beat her 12-hour track record with an amazing 150.43K covered, and less than an hour later, she crossed the 100-mile mark in 12:52:50, which lowered her previous American track record by 10 minutes. Both results earned her American open records and masters W40-44 world records. 

Two new records

Breaking records is nothing new for Herron, who is the owner of multiple American and world bests. She is the only woman to have run 100 miles in under 13 hours, 150K in 12 hours and 270K in 24 hours. She is also a Comrades Marathon champion, from 2017. That win may have been close to six years ago, but Herron hasn’t slowed down since, and with her race on Saturday she proved that she is still one of the best ultrarunners in the world. 

“I did it again!” Herron wrote after the Raven. “Broke free of the pain cave to set new track 12Hr/100 mile World and American Records and Masters Records.” She went on to note that ultramarathons on the track “are brutal,” requiring “incredible mental and physical fortitude.” While Herron ran the fastest track 100-miler and the farthest 12-hour race on a track of anyone ever, the feats will only be recognized as American and masters world records, not open world records, as the International Association of Ultrarunners doesn’t distinguish races by surface, just overall distance or time. 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Herron’s final 100-mile split of 12:52:50 works out to an average pace of 4:48 per kilometre. That pace works out to a 48-minute 10K, a time many runners would be thrilled to hit, but Herron ran 16 straight 10Ks at that pace. She ran close to four marathons in a row, with the average time for each working out to about 3:22. The current Boston Marathon qualification time for Herron’s age division is 3:40, meaning she could have qualified three times on Saturday alone.   

What’s next?

Herron is still young and hungry, so it shouldn’t be a surprise if and when she continues to etch her name in the record books. As she said recently, “I feel so blessed to be 41 and still getting faster,” and she plans to chase more world records while also working to improve the ones she already owns. “I want to go for the 48-hour and six-day records,” she said. “I’m hoping I have the opportunity this year to go beyond 24 hours.”

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