And on the Subject of Course Records!

Sam Amend Canes her 100m debut

 With the Manchester Marathon just two weeks in her legs and feeling very under-prepared, Sammy Amend set about her ultra-distance debut like a fox let loose in a chicken hutch at the Thames Path 100m.  She hurtled through the first 22 miles in an eye-watering 2:55, quite literally miles inside the pace of Ann Trason's world record of 13:47 set in 1991.Things settled down a bit thereafter, but no walls were hit and indeed SA's final 9 mile stretch saw the speedometer rise, not fall.Her half-way split was 7:17, and she came home in 8:43, for a time just nine (slightly annoying) seconds over 16 hours.It could just be that Sam goes on to dominate Ultra running in the years to come, as her nearest female competitor, Marl Mauland, was 3 hours back, and slowed by 3 hours to boot.  It's only the men who can keep her anything like honest, with the second and third men still over an hour back though, and just Craig Holgate's excellent 14:09 making the order of things vaguely sensible.As with her comrade Zoe on Saturday, it was another big course record from our oh so talented women's squad.  Pioneers these Belles...But which is the tougher nut to crack?  Running 3.1 miles at 5:33 pace, or 100 miles at 9:36 pace?  Search me, but they both take some doing.Full results