World Backyard Ultra Champs: Ontario’s Amanda Nelson is the last female runner

Woodstock, Ontario Amanda Nelson 56 of just completed yards (loops/time) World Backyard Ultra Championships taps out after 375.76 km. She was the only female runner among her 544 athletes who started the event at her 37 different satellite locations around the world to run the course for hours.

Jennifer Russo was the penultimate woman to reach 48 yards (322 km).

Nelson, who just started running in 2020, has a new female 100 miles and 12 hours record At Survivorfest in June. Survivorfest is his official 6-hour and 24-hour Canadian National Championships held annually in Edmonton, Alta. The runner also won the entire race and set a new course record.

Nelson wins Persistence Backyard Ultra In August, he ran 33 yards and over 221 kilometers to earn a spot on the Canadian backyard team. Her crew noted that the course at Summerland, British Columbia, was dusty and caused breathing problems on the second day of the race, but Nelson overcame them and set a significant personal best (and I can now claim that I ran the most yards of any Canadian (woman).

Multiple team members dropped after 40 yards and Nelson was running with the remaining two team members. Ihor Velis Chilliwack, British Columbia and Quebec Eric DescheithA runner becomes DNF by not returning from the loop course within an hour or by deciding to tap out, formally called a ‘Refuse to Continue’ (RTC).

Nelson will get some well-deserved recovery and rest while teammates Belize and DeShades continue to move forward.The current backyard super record stands at 90 yards, set by Meridin Geertz Belgium earlier this year.

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