The difference between fell racing and trail racing is that in fell racing, there are no trails to follow. I think I found the people that I can really, really understand and these people understand me.’ I just fell in love with it that day.” I was so oxygen deficient by the time I finished, but I thought, ‘This is fantastic these people are running around in the hills for fun. “I only had road trainers I fell over a lot of times on the descent because I just slipped, but I loved it. “And the aim would really be not to see anyone for that whole time.”Īfter graduation, a colleague at Jasmin’s first job, a fell runner, suggested that she give fell running a try. “We’d take all our stuff and go for like 7 to 10 days to mountains all over Europe, the wilder the better,” she recalls. When they were old enough, she and her brother would go on long hikes together. Her parents hiked across the Andes, carrying her, when she was just a year old. She was, however, introduced to hiking at an early age. It may be hard to imagine, but Jasmin didn’t even consider herself to be a runner until after she left university. Listen to the Running for Real podcast here:Īpple (iTunes) Podcast | Sticher | Castbox | Overcast | Spotify | Google Play | iHeartradio | She also left her corporate sponsor and began representing Green Runners, an environmental group which she co-founded.

This year, Jasmin completed three loops of the Barkley Marathons, the first time in nine years that a woman had done so. Her win went viral, not only because of the records she smashed, but because she was breast-feeding at the time, and expressed milk for her baby during rest breaks.

She was the overall winner in 2019, finishing in 83 hours, 12 minutes, breaking the previous overall record of 95 hours, 17 minutes and the previous female record of 109 hours, 54 minutes. Jasmin Paris completed the grueling winter course, the majority of which takes place in darkness, in less than half that time. Runners have seven days to complete the Spine Race, 268 miles along the Pennine Way.

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