A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)

Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by snissn on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:03PM (#20770196)

Big ups to all athletes that were involved with this, but a 50k is only about 10% longer than a regular marathon and feels awkward to get "ultramarathon" status. Great athleticism regardless, I just intuitively thought ultra means double marathon or above

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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by ericol on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:14PM (#20770297)

50K is actually closer to 20% more than a regular marathon. Also, as per wikipedia:

An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi).

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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by frereubu on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:42PM (#20770581)

Marathons are also generally on flatter ground aren't they? This is trail running, so off-road with much more variable ground to deal with, and often much more climbing and descending (although I don't know this race in particular).

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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by Pfhreak on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:06PM (#20770218)

Isn't ultramarathon just the category for anything longer than a marathon?

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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by yarone on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:11PM (#20770270)

Yes

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Re:A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals... by travisl12 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:15PM (#20770306)

Yes.

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