{"id":78461,"date":"2026-09-09T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/ultrarunner-megan-eckert-shatters-us-mens-record-with-636-miles-in-six-days\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:55:28","slug":"ultrarunner-megan-eckert-shatters-us-mens-record-with-636-miles-in-six-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/ultrarunner-megan-eckert-shatters-us-mens-record-with-636-miles-in-six-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrarunner Megan Eckert shatters US men\u2019s record with 636 miles in six days"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Distance tops US men\u2019s mark by more than 30 miles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Eckert also beat women\u2019s world record she set last year<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While some teachers spent the second week of September easing into their school routines, Megan Eckert was making more ultrarunning history.<\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico middle school math teacher shattered the six-day women\u2019s world record and the American men\u2019s record by running 636.482 miles, completing her feat on Wednesday morning in Balatonf\u00fcred, Hungary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/09\/ultrarunner-meg-eckert-world-record-636-miles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distance tops US men\u2019s mark by more than 30 miles Eckert also beat women\u2019s world record she set last year While some teachers spent the second week of September easing into their school routines, Megan Eckert was making more ultrarunning history. The New Mexico middle school math teacher shattered the six-day women\u2019s world record and &#8230; <a title=\"Ultrarunner Megan Eckert shatters US men\u2019s record with 636 miles in six days\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/ultrarunner-megan-eckert-shatters-us-mens-record-with-636-miles-in-six-days\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ultrarunner Megan Eckert shatters US men\u2019s record with 636 miles in six days\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}