Canada’s Calum Neff smashed the 50K course report on the Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Va., on Sunday—a race he says was a coaching run for an extended extremely occasion subsequent month.
Neff, who relies in Houston, Texas, ran the Marine Corps Marathon 50K course in two hours, 55 minutes and 56 seconds, beating the earlier course report of three:05:45 held by U.S. ultrarunner Chris Raulli by 10 minutes.
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 pic.twitter.com/gf0jkH2ELf
— Marine Corps Base Quantico🇺🇸 (@MCB_Quantico) October 29, 2023
It was Neff’s first time competing within the Marine Corps Marathon, which marked its forty eighth yr on the weekend, however as Neff instructed NBC Information, it wasn’t his first time racing the 50K distance. “I’ve raced fairly a number of 50Ks,” mentioned Neff. “I’ve competed on the 2019 ultrarunning world championships for Workforce Canada and broke the Canadian 50K nationwide report throughout the pandemic.”
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Neff ran the earlier Canadian 50K report of two:51:27 in Houston in 2019, earlier than Chris Balestrini of London, Ont. eclipsed his mark in 2021 (2:48:32).
Despite the fact that Neff shattered the 50K course report, Neff instructed native information that the race was truly a coaching run for the upcoming JFK 50-miler path race on Nov. 18.
Neff was born in Scotland to Canadian mother and father and has competed for Workforce Canada at a number of World Mountain Operating Championships. He’s additionally well-known for his world-class pacing abilities, serving to Keira D’Amato set the American marathon report on the 2022 Houston Marathon.
