Alyx is the owner of FirePower Fit and FirePower Apparel.Her profile below is from her website Firepowerbody.com
Alyx is a Doctor of Naturopathy who’s sole focus with her clients is a mind and body connection that heals the individual, while creating the desired performance and aesthetic goals. She is a military spouse, clinically certified nutritionist, and certified personal trainer with over ten years of hands on experience as a coach. She is an Ultra Runner, WBFF Fitness Pro Ranked 5th in North America in 2016 and 11th in the World in 2016, and Ironman Triathlete. She believes that anyone can accomplish anything if they set their minds to it and are willing to put in the work.
On her Instagram page she also claims “1 x continuous 1406 miles 🇺🇸US Women’s Record🧜♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️” referencing her Decaman result.
She has over 311,000 Instagram followers. She makes her living in the fitness industry. She was actively posting her progress on social media, and is now promoting her finish as The U.S.Women’s Record.
The Decaman USA race was held in New Orleans and began on November 6th and lasted for 13 days. The “Classic Deca” which Alyx participated in consists of:
- 24 mile swim
- 1120 mile bike ride
- 262 mile run
1406 total miles.
There were 16 athletes that entered the race, 10 were listed as finishers, until it was announced that Alyx was disqualified.
It was allegedon the thread by a race official that she was witnessed cutting the run course multiple times without completing full laps.The run course is just over 1 mile per lap on an out and back road. The course was changed due to rainy weather. Alyx reported that as a slower competitor, she ran the entire race on pavement, while faster competitors initially ran on trail. Edit: I have confirmed with multiple sources that the course change took place prior to any of the Classic Deca participants reaching the run portion of the race. All competitors of this race ran the road course the entire time.
I have been in contact with another competitor. He relayed that suspicions began when it was noticed that while other runners kept moving, that Alyx spentmore time “sleeping or sitting on her phone”.
It was reported bythis competitorthat one runner became so suspicious that they took time to observe her and caught her almost immediately. A race official was notified, and she was observed shavinga lap again.
Earlier in the race Alyx posted about possible rule infractions along the bike course. “in a 1120 mile bike race drafting isn’t legal (but it doesn’t stop some people)”
I was actually familiar with Alyx when she reported apparent misconduct by another athlete a few months ago.
In a profile in Stars and Stripes, she stated her goalwas breaking the U.S. Women’s record for The fastest Decaman finish. She finished as the 2nd place female, overtwo days behind New Zealander Christine Couldrey. She was the only US Women’s finisher.
Alyx responded to the disqualification on Facebook:
I chatted with Alyx on messenger. Shewas adamant that she did not intentionally cut any laps. She does concede she may have missed the one lap.
I think I probably did screw the one lap up, otherwise I cannot imagine all the drama from the drunks
Alyx informed me that they had come to an agreement and that Alyx would runten extra laps without crossing the timing mats in order to earn a finish time. She says that she completed those laps as per the agreement. As per the race’s statement they re-evaluated this agreement and decided that it was appropriate to issue a disqualification.
In her statement, she puts up her Strava as evidence. In our conversation she said she wasn’t as particular about ensuring that her GPS was accurate until after the incident with the race official. She says this incident occurred at 7:30 am Sunday after she had a short nap. Her Strava does show a 30 minute gap before beginning a lap at 7:35 am on Sunday.
Idid check her Strava in as much detail as I could. There were a couple of notes about missing a few miles due to her watch dying or forgetting to start it. But, Alyx said she felt that her Strava was 90% to 95% accurate.
| Date | Start time | Total Time | Mileage | Finish Time | gap until next entry |
| 11/13/2018 | 1:41 PM | 1:03:00 | 5.15 | 2:44 PM | 0:06:00 |
| 11/13/2018 | 2:50 PM | 0:33:38 | 2.11 | 3:23 PM | 2:45:22 |
| 11/13/2018 | 6:09 PM | 2:42:00 | 12.45 | 8:51 PM | 1:06:00 |
| 11/13/2018 | 9:57 PM | 1:44:00 | 5.16 | 11:41 PM | 4:52:00 |
| 11/14/2018 | 6:33 AM | 3:34:00 | 9.5 | 10:07 AM | 0:24:00 |
| 11/14/2018 | 10:31 AM | 0:53:14 | 2.29 | 11:24 AM | 2:52:46 |
| 11/14/2018 | 2:17 PM | 2:41:00 | 9.42 | 4:58 PM | 2:32:00 |
| 11/14/2018 | 7:30 PM | 0:39:45 | 2.11 | 8:09 PM | 0:12:15 |
| 11/14/2018 | 8:22 PM | 0:59:05 | 3.04 | 9:21 PM | 9:59:00 |
| 11/15/2018 | 7:20 AM | 4:07:00 | 12.59 | 11:27 AM | 0:31:00 |
| 11/15/2018 | 11:58 AM | 3:20:00 | 10.43 | 3:18 PM | 0:47:00 |
| 11/15/2018 | 4:05 PM | 1:52:00 | 5.22 | 5:57 PM | 0:30:00 |
| 11/15/2018 | 6:27 PM | 0:36:33 | 2.09 | 7:03 PM | 2:17:27 |
| 11/15/2018 | 9:21 PM | 2:06:00 | 6.25 | 11:27 PM | 1:19:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 12:16 AM | 1:21:00 | 4.04 | 1:37 AM | 5:39:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 7:16 AM | 4:28:00 | 15.63 | 11:44 AM | 0:35:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 12:19 PM | 2:46:00 | 8.31 | 3:05 PM | 0:13:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 3:18 PM | 1:52:00 | 9.36 | 5:10 PM | 1:54:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 7:04 PM | 1:12:00 | 3.16 | 8:16 PM | 0:24:00 |
| 11/16/2018 | 8:40 PM | 0:50:59 | 2.04 | 9:30 PM | 0:48:01 |
| 11/16/2018 | 10:19 PM | 0:21:35 | 1.03 | 10:40 PM | 0:22:25 |
| 11/16/2018 | 11:03 PM | 2:02:00 | 5.48 | 1:05 AM | 0:23:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 6:44 AM | 2:40:00 | 7.6 | 9:24 AM | 0:08:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 9:32 AM | 1:52:00 | 5.55 | 11:24 AM | 1:20:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 11:30 AM | 1:05:00 | 3.32 | 12:35 PM | 1:43:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 12:44 PM | 0:48:04 | 2.15 | 1:32 PM | 0:45:56 |
| 11/17/2018 | 2:18 PM | 2:16:00 | 6.55 | 4:34 PM | 0:56:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 5:30 PM | 2:09:00 | 6.51 | 7:39 PM | 0:40:00 |
| 11/17/2018 | 8:19 PM | 0:26:26 | 1.18 | 8:45 PM | 0:54:34 |
| 11/17/2018 | 9:40 PM | 1:53:00 | 5.41 | 11:33 PM | 0:55:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 12:19 AM | 1:27:00 | 4.23 | 1:46 AM | 3:35:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 5:21 AM | 2:57:00 | 8.65 | 8:18 AM | 0:13:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 8:31 AM | 1:06:00 | 3.25 | 9:37 AM | 0:13:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 9:50 AM | 0:36:17 | 2.16 | 10:26 AM | 0:07:43 |
| 11/18/2018 | 10:34 AM | 0:15:50 | 1.04 | 10:49 AM | 0:19:10 |
| 11/18/2018 | 11:09 AM | 0:58:31 | 4.31 | 12:07 PM | 0:08:29 |
| 11/18/2018 | 12:16 PM | 0:36:36 | 2.1 | 12:52 PM | 0:13:24 |
| 11/18/2018 | 1:06 PM | 0:42:53 | 2.18 | 1:48 PM | 0:06:07 |
| 11/18/2018 | 1:55 PM | 0:32:56 | 2.04 | 2:27 PM | 1:38:04 |
| 11/18/2018 | 4:06 PM | 3:01:00 | 9.37 | 7:07 PM | 0:28:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 7:35 PM | 1:20:00 | 4.11 | 8:55 PM | 0:05:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 9:00 PM | 0:34:43 | 2.06 | 9:34 PM | 0:05:17 |
| 11/18/2018 | 9:40 PM | 0:19:24 | 1.01 | 9:59 PM | 0:33:36 |
| 11/18/2018 | 10:33 PM | 1:05:00 | 3.07 | 11:38 PM | 0:08:00 |
| 11/18/2018 | 11:46 PM | 1:04:00 | 3.16 | 12:50 AM | 0:11:00 |
| 11/19/2018 | 1:01 AM | 0:24:01 | 1.02 | 1:25 AM | 0:37:59 |
| 11/19/2018 | 2:03 AM | 0:52:28 | 2.36 | 2:55 AM | 0:21:32 |
| 11/19/2018 | 3:17 AM | 1:02:00 | 4.67 | 4:19 AM | 0:17:00 |
| 11/19/2018 | 4:36 AM | 0:44:47 | 2.21 | 5:20 AM | 0:13:13 |
| 11/19/2018 | 5:34 AM | 0:56:56 | 3.24 | 6:30 AM | 0:08:04 |
| 11/19/2018 | 6:39 AM | 1:28:00 | 7.17 | 8:07 AM | 0:08:00 |
| 11/19/2018 | 8:15 AM | 1:37:00 | 6.11 | 9:52 AM |
For the run, she logged a total of 254 miles. Taking into account the extraten laps, she should have logged over 270 miles.
In the above Instagram post, she said that she was around mile 135 into the run. Her Strava to this point (as indicated by the Beer Miles labelshows around 128 to 130 mles. So, it would appear that for the first part of the race she was actually fairly consistent in logging her miles. It was about 1-1/2 days after this when she was confronted by race officials. Below is the log that I put together from her Strava entries.
Alyx and her defenders referenced drinking by the timer, and other allegedly unprofessional behavior. But, the immediate issue here is whether Alyx knowingly cut the course. The argument of timing error in reference to what was witnessed when she was confronted is refuted by Alyx herself when she concedes that she likely screwed up the lap. Additionally, this ‘screw up’ was witnessed only after other runners were suspicious and only after she was reported by another runner.
In her response, she is leaning on The Strava data. Unfortunately there are too many holes in the data to be able to be able to conclude that she completed the entire 262 (or 272) miles.
Alyx mentioned her race history. Alyx recently finished 2nd overall in The Wildcat 100 mile race and was 1st place female in 8 Hours of Hell. Her results from 2017 and prior were more in the middle to the back of the pack.
There is likely much more to come out about this. Maybe other runners will come forward publicly now that the race made an official statement. There has already been debate from both sides after The Decaman Facebook post.
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