Trisha Ignatowski, a 26-year-old pediatric occupational therapist in New York City, ran a 1-mile loop 144 times in 48 hours. Ultra-endurance runs with various distance and time cut-offs are increasingly popular. The events are meant to challenge people physically and mentally, but they’re also supposed to be fun.
While you were sleeping one Friday night in May, Trisha Ignatowski was running around a 1-mile (mostly) paved loop in Augusta, New Jersey. She’d been at it since 9 a.m. that morning and continued until 9 a.m. Sunday morning. She slept only a half-hour each night, otherwise resisting the urge to crawl into her track-side tent to nap at every mile. “That was the hardest part,” the 26-year-old pediatric occupational therapist in New York City told INSIDER of the sleep-deprivation.
Ignatowski stayed fueled on whatever the on-site kitchen could cook up: burgers, pizza, cookies, watermelon, pancakes, and more pancakes. “I ate at least 20 pancakes during the race,” she said. In all, Ignatowski ran 144 miles — more than double the distance she’d ever run in a single weekend, about triple the distance she’d ever completed in a single race, and almost exactly the distance of five and a half marathons. In the end, she placed fourth among women in the NJ Trail Series event, which is called “3 Days at the Fair.” See also: What elite athletes do to push themselves beyond the ‘limits’ of human performance — and how to incorporate that […]
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