


"There's no set plan, no schedule that way I can see how my body feels, see how my brain feels, see where I'm at emotionally, and that'll determine if I push, or have a more chill day."īut - eat your heart out, Tom Brady - it works. Her training regime is dictated not by performance markers and down-to-the-millisecond metrics, but by how she feels when she wakes up.

She doesn't have a coach - "I prefer to just play around with the puzzle pieces myself" - doesn't follow a strict diet - she'll eat pizzas, burgers and candies - and wears baggy basketball-style shorts because, well, they're comfortable. As she breezes through the thin mountain air on snow-spattered trails around her home in Leadville, Colorado, US ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter keeps up a cheerful chatter that makes her running look easy, but she insists it's not © CHANDAN KHANNA / AFPīut she's nothing like an elite athlete is supposed to be.
