If someone can’t complete their mile because of an injury or other problem, the whole thing is off.Īnd this group spans all kinds of categories - the youngest runner is 13, and the oldest is 63. The race requires that 100 women run - no one is allowed to run more than one of the miles. That’s not even the average pace for the average person who runs track,” he said. The Guinness World Record for the fastest mile run by a woman is 4:12, but to have 100 different women consecutively miles at a 5:37 average is still no small feat. Sax, the relay director, said that based on everyone’s mile times, the group is on schedule to beat that record, but it’s going to be a challenge. This year, 100 San Francisco women will try to break the record again. “This is a great thing for runners and for San Francisco.”Ī T-shirt from the 1977 women’s 100 x 1-mile relay race, at which the runners set a world record. “I think we’ll make it,” Lavelle, a third-generation San Franciscan, said. Saturday’s runners, organized by Shawn Sax with the San Francisco Road Runners Club as well as the Dolphin South End Runners Club, are aiming to shave a second or two off that average pace. The most recent record, broken by the Canadian Women’s Miler’s Club in 1999, is 9 hours, 23 minutes and 39 seconds - about a 5:38 mile pace. However, the study also found that a finish isn’t guaranteed, as 1,507 runners in the dataset did not finish all their attempts at their chosen 100-miler.On Saturday, Lavelle, now 62, along with a new team of 100 total San Francisco women, will attempt to break that record for a fourth time at San Francisco State’s Cox Stadium - the same location it was in 1977.
On 2,510 occasions across this study’s data, runners returned to a race they previously did not finish and managed to get a finisher’s medal. More than 60 percent of runners eventually finished a race where their first result was a DNF. If you still need to finish your first 100-miler, the study suggests you try again. That percentage is nearly identical for men, at 54.37 percent. Additionally, those who love a race enough to do it 10 or more times may be mainly driven to improve.įurthermore, runners with prior experience on a 100-mile race course gain a competitive advantage, regardless of gender: 54.47 percent of female runners improved their results in a 100-mile race when running the race a second time. The study acknowledges that other factors may play a role: for instance, runners motivated to improve at a particular race may be drawn back to it more than others. Forty-six percent of runners with two runs at the same race improved their result, and this rate increases for each repetition-and if you’re feeling extra ambitious, almost every runner who has done the same event more than 10 times saw an improvement.
The data showed that running a 100-miler multiple times increases your chances of improving your result.
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