#and he's never run a 100M and not because he's new to pro trailrunning (he's not)

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I was really surprised that David Roche just won Leadville, but then I looked at who else was running and it was mostly people I'd never heard of (though tbf I can name fewer than half as many male ultrarunners as female) and Ryan Montgomery was racing in the nb category. So now I am less surprised. But I'm still very surprised that he set a course record! If gambling on ultrarunning was a thing, a handful of people who placed what I'd call a very stupid bet would have just won a lot of money