American Courtney Olsen continues to make her mark on ultrarunning historical past, this time provisionally setting a girls’s 50-mile world document of 5:31:56 on the Tunnel Hill 50 Mile in Vienna, Illinois, on November 9, 2024.
The earlier document of 5:40:18 was set in 1991 by the enduring American ultrarunner Ann Trason. Olsen’s effort resets the world document by 8 minutes and 22 seconds.
Her efficiency represents a mean tempo of 6:39 per mile (4:08 per kilometer) over 50 miles (80.47 kilometers). Wow!
Courtney Olsen crossing the road to set a brand new girls’s 50-mile world document on the 2024 Tunnel Hill 50 Mile. Photograph: Micki Colson, Colson Pictures
The Tunnel Hill 50 Mile is run as a double out-and-back on the Tunnel Hill State Path, a rails-to-trails path composed principally of grime. The occasion and path are named after the tunnel by means of which the path passes and was the situation of a new males’s 50-mile world document in 2023. It’s a USA Monitor & Discipline-certified course, and the occasion has an Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) Gold Label. The IAU governs the 50-mile distance for world data, and will probably be liable for ratifying the document.
The 37-year-old hails from Bellingham, Washington, and seems to be amidst an enormous yr in racing. Earlier in 2024, she took third on the Comrades Marathon. She’s additionally on Crew USA, set to compete on the IAU 100-Kilometer World Championships in December, 2024. In 2022, the final time the 100k world champs came about, Olsen completed fourth and ran 7 hours and quarter-hour. Her marathon PR seems to be 2:36:21.
