Tracy Garneau is a Canadian

ultramarathon An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of . Various distances are raced competitively, from the shortest common ultramarathon of to over . 50k and 100k are bot ...

er. She was the 2010 ''UltraRunning'' Female North American runner of the year.

Running career

Garneau began running at age eleven in her hometown of

Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the Okanagan region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is northeast of Vancouver. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped establish the Coldstream Ranch in near ...

. She ran several marathons before running her first ultramarathon in 2004 by competing in the Canadian Death Race. In 2008, she was part of the Canadian team which won the Transalpine-Run in the

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. In 2009, she placed third at the 50 mile San Francisco North Face Endurance Challenge. The next year Garneau won the

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in a time of 19 hours, 1 minute, and 55 seconds after coming from behind at the 80 mile mark. She qualified for the Western States by winning the American River 50-mile Endurance Run. In 2010, she also won four separate 50 mile races. She set the Hawaiian Hurt 100 course record of twenty four hours and six minutes at the 2010 race, breaking the previous record by two hours and finishing third overall. She is sponsored by

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and works as a

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. Garneau runs almost exclusively on trails rather than paved roads. She often cross trains by

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ing in sub-zero temperatures and practicing

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