Courtney Dauwalter has made trail running history becoming the first runner ever to win the Western States 100 and the Hardrock 100 in the same year – breaking the course record that she set in last year’s race.
Just three weeks after her record-breaking Western States victory Courtney Dauwalter stormed to first place in the Hardrock women’s race only just missing out on third place overall as she was passed in the closing stages by Spain’s Javier Dominguez.
Many had thought that this achievement was impossible. The Western States 100 covers 100.2 miles through the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, and has nearly 5,500m of elevation gain. The Hardrock 100 features 10,000m of elevation gain across 102.5 miles of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado’s famous Rocky Mountains.
With so little time to recover between the two it seemed so unlikely that back-to-back wins were even a possibility.
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