The craziest thing about this is that she somehow managed to become one of the highest-paid ultrarunners, maybe even the highest paid (if the rumors are true), despite being a total publicity PITA and only dominating a tiny niche of the sport that no one really cares about. Just a week ago she had a post showing the house they were building in AZ - new construction on massive land and the house itself looked pretty large. I think at one point she also bragged about their $100k+ RV, but I could be misremembering.
It's basically the windfall of a lifetime. Thousands of runners would kill to have a running career for 1/3 of what she is probably making. Her previous issues were tolerated because it's wrong to say anything bad about anyone at anytime in ultrarunning's "positive and inclusive" environment (which btw I think ultimately led/enabled her into this trainwreck).
And to throw it all away over Wikipedia trolling???? JFC.
Yes, there was a fancy RV at on point in life. I thought it was a sponsored vehicle. And yes she posted a photo of a new construction of a house in Oro Valley, just like she posted buying land in Flagstaff a couple years back and buying another house in Oro Valley a few years back.
If nothing else, her RE story shows how all over the place she is.
All I'm saying is that she is a major anomaly. The only 2 ways to make money from ultrarunning is (1) to have a great personality and go the influencer route (like Sage) or (2) to dominate events that have an actual following (like Courtney, Walmsley). She is in neither of those two groups, yet managed to hit the top of the payscale. There's nothing wrong with that - random people hit lucky windfalls all the time, but to not realize is, and to blow it away so easily is bewildering.
Like I said, I think the toxic positivity in ultrarunning is what ultimately caused this. Had there been stronger blowback to her numerous earlier antics (e.g. the repeated cheating allegations), she and her husband may have changed course and avoided this train wreck. But because it's sexist/racist/ableist/non-inclusive/... to call someone out in ultrarunning for anything, she was essentially enabled the whole time.
Notice how she wouldn't dare try this in the road non-ultra world because she'd be laughed out of the room and called out immediately.
Yes, people don’t care about road ultras much at all. Trail is where the attraction is.
The craziest thing about this is that she somehow managed to become one of the highest-paid ultrarunners, maybe even the highest paid (if the rumors are true), despite being a total publicity PITA and only dominating a tiny niche of the sport that no one really cares about. Just a week ago she had a post showing the house they were building in AZ - new construction on massive land and the house itself looked pretty large. I think at one point she also bragged about their $100k+ RV, but I could be misremembering.
It's basically the windfall of a lifetime. Thousands of runners would kill to have a running career for 1/3 of what she is probably making. Her previous issues were tolerated because it's wrong to say anything bad about anyone at anytime in ultrarunning's "positive and inclusive" environment (which btw I think ultimately led/enabled her into this trainwreck).
And to throw it all away over Wikipedia trolling???? JFC.
Maybe she became the highest-paid BECAUSE OF these things. Not saying she’s dark triad (I don’t know her at all), but you do hear that those people can sometimes be highly successful.
Said another way, this is someone who appears to be extremely selfish and narcissistic, willing to cause conflict, break norms, and diminish other people to benefit herself, and whose life is oriented around seeming like the world’s best ultrarunner (and she legitimately is very good). Is it all that surprising that absent a community willing to punish defectors such a person would be particularly successful in her goals?
The live tracker shows Camille is the first woman through checkpoint 4 / 20.1 km of the Spartathlon 2024. There are 75 checkpoints / 244.7 km total. Looks like Camille's plan is to win the race by leading all the way right from the very start to the end. She is running on pure hate today.
Also, has anyone else noticed that Camille's profile bio on the Spartathlon website reads exactly like the Wikipedia edits she and Conner tried to force?
Found a photo of Camille from the live photo stream from when she was still in the race. This was very early on in the race as Camille was laying the hate down on the road with only 2 women in sight behind her.
Found a photo of Camille from the live photo stream from when she was still in the race. This was very early on in the race as Camille was laying the hate down on the road with only 2 women in sight behind her.
There are two more on the race course but this on shows her state of mind pretty well. The photo at the start is similar. She knew that she would not finish this.
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