The important thing to breaking a course document for a 250-mile ultramarathon?
Mashed potato, and 19 minutes’ value of sleep on the bottom.
That’s what fuelled Rachel Entrekin in her historic run on the Cocodona 250 in Arizona because the American received the general race – males included – in a record-breaking time of 56 hours, 9 minutes and 48 seconds.
“Someplace round mile 200, I slept for 5 minutes at an assist station,” stated the 34-year-old, chatting with BBC Sport the morning after her success.
“Then round 230 miles, I took two seven-minute naps on the ground. And meals, it is unimaginable to say how a lot I ate however so far as actual meals goes, I had a number of mashed potatoes.
“Mashed potatoes are the perfect. You get bored with chewing and you do not wish to expend any further vitality doing that.”
Entrekin additionally fuelled with a number of vitality gels, sweets, rice and broth alongside the best way, and even had the capability to place in a dash end on the finish.
The morning after the race, after sleeping from 11pm till 6.30am, was spent refuelling and cheering different runners over the end line.
She was supported alongside the course by a six-person staff which included her mother and father, and this was her third consecutive win, having triumphed within the ladies’s races in 2024 and 2025.
“Women and men clearly have very totally different skillsets however in an occasion like this, it comes right down to a lot extra than simply health,” stated Entrekin.
“Your angle and your capacity to fight stress is so necessary, they’re a minimum of as necessary as how bodily match you might be, so I feel the sector is simply a lot extra levelled at one thing like this.”
