Records Fall Hard at Way Too Cool 50K
Erin Wachter enjoying the perfect trail conditions. (Photo courtesy Erin Wachter)
What’s the recipe for course records and fast times on a long-running trail race? Perfect conditions and and a stacked field, clearly.
Sadly, I wasn’t able to be out there in person for this year’s Way Too Cool 50K, but as the results were coming in via text and Twitter, it was immediately apparent that something special and amazing had taken place.
First off, Patrick Smyth’s winning time of 3:04:48 is insane. That is a sub-6:00 pace over a hilly trail run, and a four minute improvement over Max King’s record 3:08:50 that was set in 2013.