10 km, half-marathon, marathon… Guillaume Ruel’s incredible festival in Deauville!

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It’s a extraterrestrial. Almost sickening for ordinary mortals…

While there are surely runners still complaining of soreness after completing the 10 km from Deauville (Calvados) in the afternoon of this Saturday November 16, 2024Guillaume Ruel (27 years old) “recovered” from this effort by continuing the next morning with the semi-marathon at 8:15 a.m. then… marathon at 9:45!

In summary, he ran 73 terminals in less than 24 hours. At a slow trot? Quite the contrary! The native of Valognes (Manche) finished 5^e du 10 km en 30’28 » (3’03 » au kilo), 6^e half marathon in 1h 10’29” (3’19” per kilo), “on a walk” according to his comment on Strava, and 6^e tied with his brother Pierre-Antoine for the marathon in 2h 31’44” (3’33” per kilo).

The world championship in the viewfinder

Of the stratospheric performance which come at the end of an insane cycle, during which the athlete licensed in Pays Saint-Lois has participated in five marathons since the end of September while aligning training weeks at 250 kmwith a peak at 325 km!

After this “ crazy program » concocted by Loïc Letellier, the veteran of AS Tourlaville who became his “executioner” as coach, it is therefore sharp and with full confidence that he will fly to India, to Bengaluru, at the beginning of December to participate in the 100 km world championshiphis big goal of the year, where he will aim for “at least the podium” after his 5^e place in 2022 and its abandonment last year.

Above all, he will seek to beat his record (6:13:41), or even become the first athlete in history to go under 6 hours over the distance. Nothing is impossible with such a phenomenon…

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