The ultra-marathon champion who race officials say didn’t break the previous world record she set to complete a 100-mile run because the course was not measured properly says having the accomplishment revoked is “heart-crushing.”
Camille Herron ran a tough 100-mile ultramarathon from Henderson to Nevada in February. She did it in 12:41 minutes and 11 second. That beats the world record of 1 minute, which she had set back in 2017. She ran 7 minutes 37 seconds per mile and beat Arlen Glick (second-place finisher, first male athlete) by almost 30 minutes.
“To break my own world record four-plus years later? I mean, that’s a magical moment,” Inside Edition hears her story.
But according to the U.S. Track and Field Committee, Herron didn’t run 100 miles that day. Eight months after the race, officials re-measured the course and found it was 716 feet short of 100 miles, and so authorities decertified Herron’s record-setting race.
“It’s very heart-breaking to find out that they would remeasure it eight months later without the race director present and say that the course was short,” Sie says.
Running 100 miles from New York City is equivalent to running two blocks. Seventy-six feet takes you about two blocks. Herron claims she broke the world record.
“Don’t take my world record away. I definitely ran over 100 miles. The course was not short,” Sie says.
Herron claims that the ruling stress has also affected her performance during subsequent races.