Caitriona Jennings was delighted to see her plan come to fruition after setting a new 100-mile world record over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The 2012 Olympian from Donegal set a time of 12 hours 37 minutes and four seconds in Illinois, coming in more than five minutes quicker than the previous record.<\/p>\n
In an astonishing show of concentration, she managed to pace herself on each mile, clocking them in seven minutes and 26 seconds each, and finishing fourth overall.<\/p>\n
“I’m absolutely delighted,” she said on RT\u00c9’s Morning Ireland.<\/p>\n
“I’m just really pleased that I was able to go out and execute the race like I had hoped and the best I could. I’m just delighted that it paid off.<\/p>\n
“If everything went well on the day, I was hoping that the world record might be a possibility. But it was it was definitely my A plan and I wasn’t 100% sure it would happen.<\/p>\n
“I had never run longer than 60 miles before so there was a huge unknown there. But my training had gone really well. So following quite a good training block, I said I would set out on pace and try and hold that as long as I could and see, see how it played out.<\/p>\n
“At the start of the race, because it’s such a long race, you have to really hold back and run slower than you would think you would anticipate when you’re usually racing.<\/p>\n
“I just kept telling myself to be patient at the start and it went better then than I had thought. So that was good.”<\/p>\n
Jennings wasn’t hanging around after the race, as she explained on the programme.<\/p>\n
“I flew back with my husband from Chicago overnight. So, yeah, a little bit stiff getting off the plane this morning, but not as bad as I thought it would be.<\/p>\n
“Immediately after the race, I was really stiff. My legs were definitely very spent but I seem to have recovered faster than I had hoped.”<\/p>\n
Listen to Morning Ireland’s full interview with Caitriona Jennings below<\/p>\n
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