A teenage endurance racer made history this weekend as the youngest person ever to conquer a gruelling 200-mile race in Alberta.

Griffin McCue, just 17 years old, completed The Divide 200, an ultra-marathon which took place over four days, starting on Friday, Sept. 12, in the Castle-Crowsnest area.

He is the youngest to ever complete the distance.

McCue told Energeticcity.ca he got into running after his mom broke her foot before the 2023 Canadian Death Race endurance race in Grande Cache.

“Somebody needed to cover her leg,” explained McCue. “[So] I did, and it went really well.

“I got ‘runners high’, they call it. The Death Race had a marathon option. I told my dad: ‘Next year, I’m going to do the marathon.’”

He did, and then was asked to be a pace runner, which means he shadowed an

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