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Carmen Maria Perez
The best Spanish ultra-distance runner
Knowing a little about Carmen Maria Perez
Carmen María Pérez is the best Spanish ultra-distance runner, as proven by all her victories and places of honor, but above all for being the holder of up to 5 current Spanish records: 6 Hours, 50 miles, 100 kilometers, 12 Hours and 24 Hours. Her legs have been crushing kilometers for more than fifteen years in countless ultra trail tests (UTMB, Penyagolosa Trails, 101 kilometers of Ronda...) and ultra-distance races. Currently she has her sporting sights set on two events: Spartathlon (in 2024) and Badwater 135 (in 2025), the latter race in which he participated in 2023 as a companion for his romantic partner, also an ultra-distance runner. Iván Penalba, completing more than 160 kilometers on the hot asphalt of the very tough Californian race.
Personal sporting achievements…
The ultra-distance runner from Requena (Valencia) has in her sporting record important triumphs in events on Spanish territory such as the Transilicitana 100K, Climb to Pico Veleta, 90K Camino de la Cruz (Murcia) or 100 miles Sierra de los Bandoleros, all of them in the which in addition to achieving victory has also established new records in the women's classification. In November 2023, at the 24-Hour World Championship held in Taipei (Taiwan), she achieved the Spanish record with a record of 240,889 kilometers. She had previously achieved these other Spanish records: 6 Hours (81,226 km), 50 miles (5h58'22"), 100 kilometers (7h47'14") and 12 Hours (147,329 km).
What you may not know about Carmen is…
In 2011 an injury, a Morton's neuroma, prevented him from running for 8 months. He decided to look for alternatives to continue training and after ruling out the bicycle because it also caused him pain, he discovered that he could do the elliptical without problems. «The elliptical was my salvation. I started doing all my weekend workouts and races on the elliptical; When my friends went racing I went to the gym and did them on the elliptical; On the elliptical I did the Valencia half marathon in October, and a month later the marathon
from Valencia in 3h38'30", so it can be said that I stayed active thanks to the elliptical". In December 2016, he proposed to do 100 kilometers on the elliptical; no sooner said than done. «During the 10 hours and 50 minutes that I was on the elliptical I asked that the people who came to cheer me up bring toys to donate for Christmas to children without resources».
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