{"id":142671,"date":"2026-02-23T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142671\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:05:40","slug":"katie-schide-and-courtney-dauwalter-the-queens-finally-get-their-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142671\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Schide and Courtney Dauwalter – The Queens Finally Get Their Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For three years, fans have been begging for it. The two best female ultrarunners on the planet, racing the same race, on the same day, at the same time. Not splitting up the calendar. Not trading course records from a distance. Actually competing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s happening. July 10, 2026. Silverton, Colorado. Mark it.<\/p>\n

Katie Schide arrives riding the best form of her career. Her 2025 was ridiculous: Hardrock 100 win in sub 26 hours, breaking Dauwalter\u2019s course record. Third at Sierre Zinal, one of the most competitive short course trail races in the world. World Championship gold in the Long Trail 82K, dominating from start to finish. She\u2019s the defending Hardrock champion and she\u2019s already beaten Courtney\u2019s time on the course.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Courtney Dauwalter, the consensus greatest female ultrarunner of all time, is coming off a season that was\u2026 human. A DNF at Cocodona 250. Tenth at UTMB. A reminder that even legends have off days.<\/p>\n

But anyone counting out Dauwalter hasn\u2019t been paying attention. She\u2019s a three time Hardrock champion who knows every inch of that course. She\u2019s 40 now, but age hasn\u2019t slowed Ludovic Pommeret, who won Hardrock at 50. And Dauwalter has a habit of showing up when it matters most.<\/p>\n

Same start line. Same 100 miles through the San Juan Mountains. 33,000 feet of climbing. Highest altitude point of any major 100 miler in the world. Clockwise direction this year.<\/p>\n

Schide runs with surgical precision. Dauwalter runs on vibes and pure pain tolerance. Schide thrives on technical terrain. Dauwalter has built her legend on refusing to break when everyone else does.<\/p>\n

Five months out. Both athletes deep in their build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For three years, fans have been begging for it. The two best female ultrarunners on the planet, racing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-142671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}