The winner of the Last Soul Ultra ran 94 loops. He ran 94 because the man who lost ran 93. The fo...The winner of the Last Soul Ultra ran 94 loops. He ran 94 because the man who lost ran 93. The fo...
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Kamran Mohammad
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• Aug 27
The winner of the Last Soul Ultra ran 94 loops. He ran 94 because the man who lost ran 93.
The format is a 6.7km loop, every hour, on the hour, until one runner is left. 169 started in Germany on a Friday afternoon. It ended Tuesday morning.
What kept Mark Dowdle going was not a target. There isn't one. No finish line, no distance to reach, no clock to beat. The only thing sending him back out was that Ayyoub El Osrouti hadn't stopped.
Ello is the one I keep thinking about.
He was running on the same Achilles that ended his race the year before, when he stepped off and the win went to someone else. Reports say it flared again. He walked longer and longer stretches through the final morning and kept making the bell anyway. 93 loops. Second-best backyard run by a German, ever.
He lost. He also dragged the winner past a mark that had never been beaten on German soil. #lastsoulultra #winner
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