{"id":119979,"date":"2026-05-07T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/rachel-entrekin-becomes-first-woman-to-win-cocodona-250-ultramarathon-and-pets-dogs-along-the-way\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:53:27","slug":"rachel-entrekin-becomes-first-woman-to-win-cocodona-250-ultramarathon-and-pets-dogs-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/rachel-entrekin-becomes-first-woman-to-win-cocodona-250-ultramarathon-and-pets-dogs-along-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Entrekin becomes first woman to win Cocodona 250 ultramarathon \u2013 and pets dogs along the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rachel Entrekin has made history by beating a field of elite men and women to win the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Entrekin had won the women\u2019s race on two occasions but on Wednesday she headed the entire field, winning in a record time of 56 hours 9 minutes and 48 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I basically wept from the second I got off the single track until I crossed the finish line,\u201d she told Run after completing her victory<\/a>. The 34-year-old\u2019s previous best time, which she set last year, was 63:50:55. The overall record had been 58:47:18.<\/p>\n

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The American took breaks along the way. According to Canadian Trail Running<\/a>, she stopped to pet dogs, while she told Run that she had a few naps: \u201cI slept five minutes, then seven minutes, then seven minutes,\u201d Entrekin said. \u201cMy goal was to only have dirt naps.\u201d She was helped by a support crew of six, which included her parents.<\/p>\n

Entrekin did not play team sports in high school as she didn\u2019t think she was good enough, but took up running seriously in 2012 while studying exercise science at college. She went on to earn her doctorate in 2016.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Rachel Entrekin with her supporters after her victory. <\/span> Photograph: Scott Rokis\/Scott Rokis\/Cocodona 250<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhy put my body and mind through such stressful exercise you may ask? Because it\u2019s fun and you get to explore so much stuff while you\u2019re in these races as the biggest hook for me is I see lots of the world in a short time frame,\u201d Entrekin told the Madison Record in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite its name, the Cocodona 250 is run over a 253-mile course in Arizona<\/a>. It is one of the world\u2019s toughest ultramarathons and athletes must deal with 38,791ft of elevation gain, with a high point of 9,241ft and desert conditions.<\/p>\n

Tragedy struck this year\u2019s race<\/a> when a runner died on Tuesday after a medical emergency. The race continued in the runner\u2019s honor and organizers asked athletes and their crews \u201cto carry the memory of this runner with you on the trail\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rachel Entrekin has made history by beating a field of elite men and women to win the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon. Entrekin had won the women\u2019s race on two occasions but on Wednesday she headed the entire field, winning in a record time of 56 hours 9 minutes and 48 seconds. \u201cI think I basically wept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}