{"id":57893,"date":"2026-08-02T12:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/runner-on-smashing-alps-ultramarathon-record-by-6-days\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:44:53","slug":"runner-on-smashing-alps-ultramarathon-record-by-6-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/runner-on-smashing-alps-ultramarathon-record-by-6-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner on smashing Alps ultramarathon record by 6 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runner Sophie Woods became the fastest person to complete the 2,000km (1242-mile) Via Alpina ultramarathon beating both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods ran the route through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through the whole thing, I was only ever thinking about the day, the hour, the sort of minute that I was in&#8221;, the runner told BBC Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The previous record was 35 days and Woods did it in just 29, crediting ice cream slushies for helping her power through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/crk5j6g8lmko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runner Sophie Woods became the fastest person to complete the 2,000km (1242-mile) Via Alpina ultramarathon beating both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s record. Woods ran the route through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries. &#8220;Through the whole thing, I was only ever thinking about the day, the hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57895,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57893\/revisions\/57895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}