Running a Record-Setting 366 Marathons at 55 with Hilde Dosogne (Episode 228)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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At the start of 2024, 55-year-old ultrarunner Hilde Dosogne set out to achieve the female World Record for the most consecutive days to run a marathon distance run by completing a marathon every day for a year. On December 31st of last year, she clocked her 366th 26.2 mile run (it was a leap year, which means she had one extra day to run) and her record was verified by Guinness in March. And we had questions, mostly how? How did she stay healthy? (Spoiler, she didn’t, but kept going.) Is she managing menopause symptoms? (Yep.) What does she want others to take from her feat? (The power of the mind and so much more.) This week we share our conversation about her journey to set that Guinness World Record.

Hilde Dosogne is a Belgian ultrarunner who started running at 41 and found her stride as a world-class endurance athlete quickly thereafter. Her career highlights include 100km Race Belgian Champion in 2023; 4th place in Ultrabalaton, a 210km race around Lake Balaton in Hungary; finishing Spartathlon in 2022 and 2023, and Marathon Des Sables, a 250km stage race in the Moroccan desert in 2021. She is also a mother of four and a bio-engineer. In 2024, she set a Guinness World Record by running 366 consecutive marathons in support of breast cancer research. Hilde is dedicated to pushing the limits of human endurance and proving what we’re capable of when we set our mind to it. You can learn more about her and her accomplishments at www.hildedosogne.be/en

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.6	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.9	I hope you all are well.
0:36.2	So, I remember when I ran my first marathon. It was the Shamrock
0:41.2	marathon in Virginia Beach in 2004. And when I was done, I swore I would never, ever do that again,
0:49.9	unless it was part of an Iron Man. And I made good on that promise to myself.
0:56.0	And then after I ran not just one, but two more marathons in 2008,
1:02.0	when I did Iron Man Louisville and then went to Cona six weeks later,
1:07.0	I hung up my marathon shoes for good.
1:10.0	Because for me personally, the repetition of running on the road or a track
1:15.2	wears me down mentally and physically in ways that I honestly just can't wrap my head around.
1:21.2	So I'm always fascinated by people who run super long distances, especially on the road.
1:28.6	So earlier this year, Hilda Dosanya caught my attention.
1:33.3	At the start of 2024, the 55-year-old runner from Belgium set out to achieve the record of being the first woman
1:42.4	to run a marathon distance run every single day of the year.
1:48.3	And on December 31st of last year, she clocked her 366th marathon. It was a leap year, which means
1:57.1	she had that one extra day to run. And serendipitously, because she had that one extra marathon to run,
2:04.8	that also gave her a tie with Hugo Frias from Brazil,
2:09.9	who holds the mail record for consecutive marathon distance runs,
2:13.9	also 366, which he did in 2023.
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