Runner discovers ultra-marathons are a lot easier if you use a car

Maybe it was jet lag.

Whatever it was, some error of judgement crept into the tired psyche of ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski that led her to “run” 2.5 miles of a recent race by traveling them in an automobile.

The 47-year-old Scottish runner, a doctor, was apparently tracked by GPX data by race organizers, who said that they found she has progressed through a mile of the race in one minute, 40 seconds: cue "Chariots of Fire" theme. She had initially finished third in the 50-mile route from Manchester to Liverpool on April 7.

“We can confirm that a runner has now been disqualified from the event having taken vehicle transport during part of the route,” race director Wayne Drinkwater said.