After running for 60 miles through snow, up steep, root-filled switchbacks with thousands of feet of elevation gain, Courtney Dauwalter entered what she calls her pain cave.
Scott Jurek won Western States seven times (most recently in 2005) but never once ran as fast as Dauwalter did this year.
She beat a 1994 Western States record set by Ann Trason, who won the race 14 times, by more than two hours.
Now she is trying to do something even the most accomplished ultrarunners would consider extraordinary: win three highly competitive 100-mile races in a single summer.
She has won the race twice and currently holds the women’s record.
Persons:
Courtney Dauwalter, —, Scott Jurek, Ann Trason, Mickey Mouse, billy
Organizations:
Western
Locations:
Sierra Nevada, ultrarunning, Moab , Utah, Western, Silverton, Colo, Blanc, Chamonix, France