![]() “I ran a bit faster than I thought I would for 100 miles,” Sorokin said on Sunday over a Zoom call. Whereas mountain ultrarunning has grown exponentially in recent years, ultrarunning on repetitive loop courses is a niche discipline that doesn’t get much exposure outside of the 50K, 100K, and 24-hour International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) world-championship events. But Sorokin ran the equivalent of 35 straight 5Ks, or more than four consecutive marathons. For perspective, Sorokin’s average pace equates to a 5K time of 20:18 and a marathon time of 2:51:10. He kept things up with a sub-6:55 pace as he reached the 100-mile split before eventually slowing to 7:10 and then 7:15 over the final miles, for a total average pace of 6:32. For the first 65 miles, Sorokin held a pace that ranged between 6:13 and 6:25 per mile. Sorokin’s performance also set the record for the greatest distance ever run in 12 hours-110.23 miles, besting his own previous world record of 105.82 miles (warranting a pace of 6:48), which he set at the same event in England last spring.įor the new record, Sorokin completed 122 laps on a 0.91-mile loop course. His time of 10:51:39 smashed his standing 100-mile world record of 11:14:56, set last April. ![]() For far fewer, it’s the pace they can maintain for an entire marathon.īut on January 6, at the Spartanion 12-hour race in Tel Aviv, Israel, Lithuanian Aleksandr “Sania” Sorokin maintained a 6:31 pace for 100 miles, en route to shattering two of his own eye-popping ultradistance world records. For some, a 6:30 mile is the target pace for a 5K. Running a mile in six and a half minutes is a challenging benchmark, one that takes considerable fitness and a strong or even all-out effort for many.
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