Canada’s Calum Neff smashed the 50K direction document on the Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Va., on Sunday—a race he says used to be a coaching run for an extended extremely match subsequent month.
Neff, who’s based totally in Houston, Texas, ran the Marine Corps Marathon 50K direction in two hours, 55 mins and 56 seconds, beating the former direction document of three:05:45 held via U.S. ultrarunner Chris Raulli via 10 mins.
The primary male runner, Calum Neff, has crossed the end line of the forty eighth Marine Corps Marathon 50k with a unofficial time of 02:55:56. #MarineCorpsMarathon, #USMC #RunwiththeMarines %.twitter.com/gf0jkH2ELf
— Marine Corps Base Quantico🇺🇸 (@MCB_Quantico) October 29, 2023
It used to be Neff’s first time competing within the Marine Corps Marathon, which marked its forty eighth yr at the weekend, however as Neff instructed NBC Information, it wasn’t his first time racing the 50K distance. “I’ve raced rather a couple of 50Ks,” mentioned Neff. “I’ve competed on the 2019 ultrarunning global championships for Group Canada and broke the Canadian 50K nationwide document all through the pandemic.”
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Neff ran the former Canadian 50K document of two:51:27 in Houston in 2019, prior to Chris Balestrini of London, Ont. eclipsed his mark in 2021 (2:48:32).
Despite the fact that Neff shattered the 50K direction document, Neff instructed native information that the race used to be in fact a coaching run for the approaching JFK 50-miler path race on Nov. 18.
Neff used to be born in Scotland to Canadian folks and has competed for Group Canada at more than one International Mountain Working Championships. He’s additionally well known for his world-class pacing abilities, serving to Keira D’Amato set the American marathon document on the 2022 Houston Marathon.