25-03-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com

Hallucinations and no sleep: Jasmin Paris on her historic ultramarathon

In an exclusive interview, the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons explains how she beat the 100-mile course“I was so close to passing out,” says Jasmin Paris, as she relives the moment she became the first woman to complete the race widely seen as the most devilish, daunting, and toughest of them all. “I felt I was going to reach the finishing gate, or collapse right in front of it. There was a tunnel of roars on either side. But I couldn’t focus. It was all a
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