Courtney Dauwalter didn't start at the Transgrancanaria this year, but that doesn't mean there wasn't plenty to talk about during the legendary Spanish ultra as another US runner set a fiery new record and a husband and wife duo stacked the podium.
A thousand runners took off on the 126k course from the beach in Las Palmas in the northeastern part of Gran Canaria at 11:59 p.m. on Friday. From the very start, American Caleb Olson held onto his place at the front of the pack and managed to maintain what race organizers describe as "an impossible pace" from the 80k mark until he crossed the finish line in Maspalomas in a stunning 12 hours, 17 minutes and 25 seconds. That's more than 25 minutes faster than the 2019 record set by Pau Capell, who came back for another stab at victory this year, but DNFd.
