N.S. runner wins gold in high-endurance competition [Video]

A Nova Scotian athlete recently took home gold in a high-endurance competition in New Brunswick.

Runner Lee Murphy from Hubbards took part and won in the Canadian Backyard Ultra World Team Championships – a race that spanned 68 hours, and 456 kilometres of consecutive running for Murphy.

He says the competition was unique as there is no real “finish line.”

“It’s a last man standing event, all the runners run 6.7 kilometres on the hour, every hour, until there’s one person left,” he said.

Murphy said each person could go at different speeds as long as they leave by the top of the hour – or else they’d be disqualified.

“You can choose to run the loop as fast or as slow as they want, runners can run it in 40 minutes and then they have 20 minutes until the top of the hour so they could use that time …