@DavidDack I’m using walking strategically in an upcoming half. I’m planning on walking the first .15-.25 of each mile. Intentionally slowing my pace to keep from blowing up early.
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@DavidDack Half. I’m not fast, so 5k and 10k are out. At 55 years old, the half is the perfect distance as it requires consistent training and discipline without crushing me into taking weeks off.
Rachel Entrekin just ran across Arizona on five-minute naps. She covered 253 miles, nearly 10 marathons back to back, in 56 hours and 9 minutes. Faster than any human has ever done it.
The race starts in the cactus desert near Phoenix and ends in Flagstaff. Runners climb 38,791 feet over the course (taller than Mount Everest). They descend almost 34,000 feet. Daytime in the desert hits the 80s, while overnight on Mount Elden it drops below freezing. The cutoff is 125 hours, and most finishers need every minute of it.
The course runs across trail, rocky dirt roads, and pavement. She held a 13-minute-mile pace, the speed of a steady jog, for two and a half straight days.
Researchers tracking 119 ultramarathon runners found that 74% of people in 100-mile races don't sleep at all during the race. Past 200 miles, the body breaks. Most racers stop and sleep for hours at a time. Entrekin took five-minute dirt naps and kept moving. Her closest rival, Kilian Korth, who won the three biggest 200-mile races in 2025, tried the same five-minute strategy. It didn't work. He ended up sleeping for an hour and finished 78 minutes behind her.
Going that long without sleep is medically dangerous. A 2023 review of ultramarathon research found that in one 152-mile mountain race, about a third of runners who slept under 30 minutes had visual hallucinations. Seeing things that aren't there usually starts after about 24 to 48 hours awake. Severe loss of touch with reality, often called acute psychosis, sets in between 48 and 90 hours. Entrekin ran straight through that entire window without stopping.
Her three Cocodona times: 73:31:25 in 2024, 63:50:55 in 2025, 56:09:48 this year. She has cut 17 hours off her own time in three attempts. The previous overall record, set by Dan Green, was 58:47:18, and Entrekin beat it by 2 hours and 37 minutes. At the finish, she said: "I feel fine, that was insane."
@DavidDack Smart. As a recovering Type 2 diabetic, I carry something on any run longer than three or so miles, just to be safe. If my sugar takes, it’s all bad.
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