636 Miles in Six Days. She Beat the Men Too.
A middle school teacher from Santa Fe ran 1,140 laps of a Hungarian campground and walked away with a world record and the overall win.
Megan Eckert teaches special education and math in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Last week she went to Balatonfüred, Hungary, for the GOMU 6-Day World Championships and ran 636.482 miles around a 0.5581-mile loop. That is 1,140 laps, roughly 106 miles a day, and a new women's six-day world record. Her old mark was 603.155.
She also broke the overall American record of 606.243 miles set by Joe Fejes in 2015, and beat every man in the field. Norway's Simen Holvik was runner-up with 584.631.
On the way through she passed the women's three-day world record too, with 342.124 miles at 72 hours. She finished about 14 miles shy of the outright six-day world record, wearing two pairs of Mount to Coast R1 shoes. "It's the longest and the shortest thing," she said at the line. Full report at Runner's World, with more from iRunFar.