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."
U.S. President Donald Trump:
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How I Somehow Got My Dog to Sit Still in the Wild and Pose
He has been coming here since he was a pup. These old fir trees and dogwoods have watched him grow from a wild shadow into my best adventure partner. After five miles of running, he finally sat still long enough to breathe in the forest air. Simple, calm, and us.
The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right
From the assassination attempts of President Trump
To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered
Now to Charlie Kirk
The danger was actually on the Left