The 44-year-old dominated the USATF 100 Mile Championships in Nevada.
At the Jackpot 100 Mile Ultra on Friday, Ashley Paulson set a new women’s world record for 100 miles, winning the race by more than two hours in a time of 12 hours, 19 minutes, and 34 seconds—an average pace of 7:21 per mile.
Paulson knocked 17 minutes off the previous record of 12:37:04, set by Caitriona Jennings of Ireland at the Tunnel Hill 100 Miler last November. Held in Henderson, Nevada—just outside of Las Vegas—the Jackpot 100 also served as the USATF 100 Mile Championships. Running in a pair of pink Nike Alphaflys that matched her signature pink ponytail, Paulson finished more than two hours ahead of the next woman and was second overall to Rajpaul Pannu, who won the event in 11:38:56.“Honestly, it doesn’t feel real,” Paulson, 44, said in a post-race interview with her sponsor, Buzz Bomb Caffeine. “I’m like, has this really happened? … I worked so hard for it, but it came, it happened. Dreams come true, you just gotta keep fighting for it and show up, put in the work, and then execute.”The USATF-certified road course is run on a 1.19-mile loop, which athletes in the 100-mile division complete 84 times. Paulson covered the first half of the race right under six hours and held on to record pace despite a positive split in the second 50 miles.An accomplished endurance athlete, Paulson was a professional triathlete in her 30s. In 2015, she accepted a six-month anti-doping sanction after testing positive for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator. She’s run more than 130 marathons in her career, and in 2020, she qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials, where she placed 44th in 2:40:07. Three years later, she made headlines after winning the notoriously tough Badwater 135 ultramarathon outright. Her time of 21:44:35 at Badwater was nearly 2.5 hours faster than the previous women’s course record.
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