Camille Herron | Six Day World Record Holder
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Camille Herron is a world champion and world record holding ultrarunner. She is perhaps the most decorated athlete in the history of timed ultra events. Last week, Camille completed the lululemon FURTHER event in Southern California. A team of ten women set off to test their limits, running "further" than ever before. In the process, Camille broke the following world records:
- 300 miles
- 400 miles
- 500 miles
- 500k
- 600k
- 700k
- 800k
- 900k
- 3-Day WR
- 4-Day WR
- 5-Day WR
- 6-Day WR
We talk all about the vision, preparation, and execution of this pioneering ultra event.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam. Welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman, here with one of the all-time greats, |
| 0:21.5 | certainly on the Mount Rushmore of Ultrunners, potentially the goat of timed events. And now, |
| 0:26.7 | the six-day world record holder, among many others, Camille Heron is back for her third |
| 0:32.4 | appearance on the podcast. Of course, last week, Camille participated in the Lulu Lemon Further event in Southern California. |
| 0:39.7 | It was absolutely incredible to follow from afar, a seminal moment for women's sports and women's sports science. |
| 0:46.7 | And as is her habit, Camille went on a record-shattering spree. |
| 0:51.1 | We took through the 12 world records that she set over six days. And of course, |
| 0:56.3 | also talked through the vision for the event, the preparation that went into it, the strategy employed |
| 1:01.4 | by Camille and her crew. We talk about some of the learnings in the aftermath and also spend |
| 1:06.6 | some time on some of the brand and product considerations for Lulu Lemon and their approach to running. |
| 1:11.9 | As usual, it's an honor to have Camille on the show and a really fun conversation for me |
| 1:17.6 | to be able to conduct. Before we get to the show, some big news here at Freetrail HQ. That's right. |
| 1:23.6 | We now have a brand new presenting sponsor of the podcast. We are thrilled to welcome the feed |
| 1:29.7 | into the free trail fam. We are grateful for their support of the show and our whole team. And many |
| 1:35.4 | people from the free trail community have been loyal customers of the feed for a long time. So we're |
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