We sat down with record-setting ultrarunner, Camille Herron, to find out about the mind game, training, and fueling that led to a total 560 miles over six days.
In La Quinta, California, Camille Herron walks out to the starting line of a six-day ultramarathon to the sounds of Madonna’s “Vogue,” her signature hair down, two water bottles tucked into her apparel. She struts to the beat, performs the “Vogue” dance, and offers high-fives to the crowd of media, as announcer and Olympian Colleen Quigley rattles off Herron’s long list of running accomplishments. Among them: the 48-hour world record of 270.
, Herron also learned she’s superior at metabolizing fat. To find this, Trent Stellingwerff, Ph.D., senior advisor of research and development at Canadian Sports Institute Pacific, tells Runner’s World they used a graded exercise test, starting at slow speeds and working up to faster paces. “In this instance, we started with a walking pace and every three minutes, the speed would increase one kilometer per hour.
also tracked sleep during Further, and Herron says Stellingwerff found it super surprising how little she actually rested throughout the six days, considering how far she was running and how much energy she was expending.One week later, Herron is still in recovery mode as she lets her body come back to baseline and mend from the stress of jostled insides. But, like the ultrarunner she’s born to be and the high achiever she already is, Herron always has her eyes on a goal.
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