![]() ![]() I love going somewhere you've never been, and running the trails there and not knowing what's around the corner, or what the summit will look like, or how you'll get there."ĭauwalter is something of a contradiction: she's the best female ultra runner on the planet, and is worshipped in the extreme running community as something akin to superhuman.īut she's nothing like an elite athlete is supposed to be. "I love it for so many reasons," she says. Wearing over-sized shorts and a huge smile, she burst onto the scene around a decade ago, and was soon leaving competitors - including men - for dust, knocking hours off course records. ![]() "I'll make some friends out there," she laughs.ĭauwalter sits at the apex of an elite group of ultra runners - people who run 50, 100 or 200 miles (322 kilometers) in one go. It could be a leopard in a hammock, a cowboy twirling a lasso, or hundreds of white kittens on the trail. Some time during a 200-mile race, maybe when she has been awake all night, ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter will probably start hallucinating. ![]()
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