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FWIW, women beating men in ultra-marathon length events isn't a new thing. Pam Reed won the Badwater Ultramarathon[1] outright in 2002 and 2003.

More insights on this topic can be found here:

https://trailrunnermag.com/people/is-women-winning-ultras-ov...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon



There was also that time a 61 year old farmer beat world class athletes in a 543 mile race: https://elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young

Efficiency is the most important factor.


Of course the follow up to that story is that once those world class athletes saw and copied his strategy of keeping a slow pace and avoiding sleep they soundly beat him in every other race he entered.




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