Viktoria Brown ran simply shy of 350 km on a monitor in Gloucester, England this weekend to assert gold for Hungary on the GOMU (International Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners) 48-hour World Championship and proceed what has been a stellar 12 months for the Canadian twin citizen.

Brown, of Whitby, Ont., looped the monitor 874 occasions to cowl 349.648 km in 47 hours, 59 minutes and 43 seconds. She racked up 59 laps greater than Romania’s Mara Guler, who completed second with 326.314 km in 47:53:19. Rounding out the ladies’s podium was Marianne Mäkinen of Finland, who ran 320.877 km in 47:49:04.

Brown’s win on the weekend comes on the heels of her fourth-place end within the ladies’s subject ultimately month’s Badwater 135. In March, Brown bested her personal 48-hour Canadian file and 72-hour world file on the GOMU six-day world championships in Policoro, Italy—she ran 364 km inside 48 hours and 471 km inside 72 hours, finishing the six-day occasion with 684 km and the ladies’s particular person gold medal.

She tells Canadian Working she had set an A objective of of 380 km and a B objective of 370 km for the 48-hour championships in Goucester, “however I used to be struggling from very early on. We needed to utterly rewrite the diet plan and the climate made the race very difficult too, so I let go of any goal distance tremendous early and simply targeted on profitable each the person and workforce championship as my solely targets.”

Brown explains she needed to change her diet to principally solids, which she isn’t used to in 48-hour races. “Our idea is that though faucet water was completely potable, in some way most foreigners weren’t tolerating it in a race scenario. That’s what occurred to me in addition to a number of others,” she defined. “My solely selection was to swap to solids. … We did what we needed to do and ultimately all of it labored out effective.”

She notes the climate posed an rising problem because the occasion rolled on. “The climate was surprisingly sizzling the primary day, which I used to be effective with—I had simply come again from Badwater, in any case. However the rain posed completely different challenges. Typically it was raining so onerous that I made a decision I used to be higher off with a sleep break and ready it out after my raincoat received soaked by—which by no means occurred earlier than, not even in Vancouver the place I first broke the Canadian 48-hour file in fixed rain in 2020. Different occasions the rain was gentle and one would query placing rain gear on, and by the point I made a decision to take action, [the rain] was over, so I might waste one other chunk of time taking all of it off.”

As Canada didn’t ship a workforce to the 48-hour world championships, the choice to run for Hungary was straightforward, says Brown. “I actually like races the place they may let me carry each flags, like Badwater, however at championships I would like to choose,” she explains. “This race was underneath GOMU, so it has no penalties on which nation I can run for in IAU races. I run for Canada in IAU (Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners)—I can’t hold switching that.”

Becoming a member of Hungary on the ladies’s workforce podium have been Finland in second-place and Germany in third.

Brown’s particular person and ladies’s workforce wins within the 48-hour race have been a part of a clear sweep for Hungary. The nation additionally gained the lads’s workforce competitors forward of Nice Britain and Switzerland. Hungary’s Szabolcs Beda ran 390.838 km in 47:54:51 to complete first among the many males. He was adopted by Poland’s Lukasz Sagan, who ran 376.911 in 47:57:11, and Britain’s Dan Lawson, who ran 370.592 km in 47:54:09.

“It was nice to look at 59 athletes from 17 international locations share the monitor for 2 days and change into brothers and sisters in arms,” says Trishul Cherns, Canadian ultrarunning pioneer and GOMU president. “All of them introduced out the perfect in one another. The world actually can be taught from their instance.”