Camille Herron wins her 2nd World Champ of the Year

well done Jaguar1

Credibility is immediately lost when any sentence or statement begins with "yo".

I do have to agree with Prob Not on this one, what a joke, and you want praise for it? Come on!

alright, great. I'd say this title is on par with the world half championship or something. How does she fare in the upcoming Olympic Marathon trials? Does she still have the speed to hang with the leaders?

Dude, wtf are you smoking she is a 2:45 if at best for the marathon now. The winners are going to run 2:27 at trials, figure it out and use common sense. She is a middle packer at best.

Can't compare "World Championship" ultras, with other running related world championships. Minimal prize money equals minimal competition. Most of the top ultra guys couldn't even quality for marathon trials.... 2:22 to 2:30 marathoners at best. Few exceptions... Sage C, Max K., and Wardian in his prime.

The top marathoner guys couldn't even qualify for the 800 meter trials.

When she broke the 100km wr, she ran a little over 62 miles in 7:08:xx - 6:53/mile

She's averaged over 100 mpw - per year - for 10 years. None of the other American women could touch her over that distance. She would have scored on the men's side for this event. Her accomplishments are more impressive than many of you give her credit for.

Awesome job Camille! Way to go!

Great Job and hats off to Camille. I think you guys are missing the point all together. She showed up on race day and won. That is what the sport is all about. She wasn't in a time trial. This was a race which she won. So what if you think someone might have run faster? The fact is she trained well, showed up, and kicked butt.

Prob Not wrote:

YO, get a life, no one is saying anything, because,NO one frigging cares about these stupid 50k-100k ultras. Do you know how,many US women would of totally smoked her today? Or even on the mens side what a joke.

No need to brag about somthing that is not worth bragging for son.

Would have smoked. Try it out ...

I have smoked her before.

He has smoked the field.

Nobody ever "of smoked" her today.

A lot easier for elite marathoners to see success in ultras than for that same elite to run trials qualifying 800m.

gator56 wrote:

A lot easier for elite marathoners to see success in ultras than for that same elite to run trials qualifying 800m.

You don't see many 800m runners taking a crack at the marathon trials either.

gator56 wrote:

A lot easier for elite marathoners to see success in ultras than for that same elite to run trials qualifying 800m.

You misunderstood the analogy. He was saying:

A) Comparing what an ultra guy/girl might do at the marathon distance

is like

B) Comparing what a marathon guy/girl might do at the 800m distance

In both cases, the answer is not that much. Yet rarely do you see marathons get shit on for not being better at the 800m.

No one cares. This is no big deal, except what you think. Who ever said camille would beat any female marathoners. Youre a joke and an idiot. Open your eyes, shalane, kara, crap alana hadley is even faster and could beet the BEER drinking so called 50k,100k champion. Haha next will be bragging about how sharks fly.

Wtf

I for one find her accomplishments to be very impressive. At the 50 mile championships she essentially ran consecutive sub 3 hour marathons back to back. She's dominating the female field and that takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Everyone wonders why elites don't post often in here yet anytime someone has an impressive accomplishment it gets trashed by anonymous posters.

Nice work Jaguar1, congrats!

Camille is obviously a great ultra runner. But... please don't compare ultra world championships or ultra US Championships with World/US track and marathon championships. No comparison!

Real non-troll question: why is there a 50k world championship? The marathon is already 42km...isn't that close enough?