How to Use ultramarathon in a Sentence

ultramarathon

noun

• The Swan View Coalition has asked the agency to rescind the permit for the ultramarathon and deny one for the marathon.
  — USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• The ultramarathon is home to the gutsy eccentric; the marathon is home to the Type-A obsessive.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• An ultramarathon is any footrace longer than the marathon distance, which is 26.2 miles.
  — Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
• The news stunned China and the wider ultramarathon trail-running world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• Think about a suffer-fest like the Leadville Trail 100 ultramarathon.
  — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Among the dead was Liang Jing, 31, an ultramarathon champion and three-time winner of the race.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• But the man who broke the color barrier at the world’s largest ultramarathon almost didn’t live to see that.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2022
• The trail at the ultramarathon's end leads to the Mount Whitney summit, the highest point in the contiguous United States.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• Earlier that week, one of them had run a desert ultramarathon on acid.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• An ultramarathon is a run that covers a distance longer than 26.2 miles, the distance of a standard marathon.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2021
• To read their books is to explore our failings and trot a few miles of their ultramarathon of remorse alongside them.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
• There are still challenges on the horizon and ultramarathons to be added to Becker’s bucket list.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The world was shutting down in March of last year, but Jeff’s Bagel Run was unknowingly in for its first ultramarathon.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 22 June 2021
• For others, there are the ultramarathons, races that stretch to fifty or one hundred miles or more through some of the world's most inhospitable regions.
  — George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
• The Lake Sonoma 50, a springtime ultramarathon that hugs the shores of Lake Sonoma, draws elite endurance runners from around the country.
  — Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• The first is that nearly all ultras take place on trails, hence nearly all long runs in ultramarathon training should also take place on trails.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 7 Dec. 2020
• Some are there to run the coveted distance that defines an ultramarathon: 100 miles.
  — Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
• The first woman completed one of the world’s hardest ultramarathons.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• Morgan competes in ultramarathons--races longer than a marathon.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2019
• Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• Even when Internet trolls commented on her body in cycling pants — the body that gave birth to two children and completes ultramarathons.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• The day after that first ultramarathon, Karma decided to test her soreness by jogging an easy two miles.
  — Christopher McDougall and Eric Orton, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
• The author, an accomplished ultramarathon runner, puts the reader right with him along an endurance race.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• In short, fueling during an ultramarathon often takes place on a knife’s edge.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• Her resume includes eleven marathons and seven ultramarathons, with five podium finishes in the last two years.
  — Alex Wong, GQ, 1 May 2018
• In March of 2024, Yanko will take on Further, a six-day ultramarathon sponsored by Lululemon.
  — Pam Moore, C.p.t., SELF, 30 Aug. 2023
• Pumphrey is a Baltimore artist, sometime teacher at the school and an open-water ultramarathon swimmer.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Competing at the ultramarathon level would be out of the question, according to her doctors.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2021
• Other than a few peeks through her fingers, the former Olympic marathon runner relied on her husband, Barney, the former U.S. record holder for a 50-mile ultramarathon, to provide the play-by-play.
  — David La Vaque, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• For many people, the idea of running an ultramarathon even in the best training conditions is a mentally questionable decision.
  — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024