The criteria I and others in this “club” have used to count 100-mile races includes: Yes, in recent years he has been averaging finishing more than one 100-miler per month.ĭetermining how many 100-mile+ race finishes a person has is a difficult task because there is no official list and no single database has a complete list of results. In about 2015, he became the tenth person in the world to reach the 100×100-miler race milestone. He is the third person in the world to reach this milestone. Who are they?Ĭongratulation to Mike Smith, age 66, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who finished his 200th 100-mile race at Umstead 100 in North Carolina, with a time of 23:52. As the decades passed, in 2022, there were 24 talented ultrarunners who had achieved 100 100 milers. The world’s greatest, Yiannis Kouros had an estimated 40 100-milers, most of them wins. Don Choi, the prolific multi-day runner from San Francisco, had more than 40 100-mile finishes but had retired from 100-mile running in 1997 at the age of 48. Ray Krolewicz of South Carolina was next with about 60 100-mile finishes to his name. Richard and Sandra Brown of England were way out in front with 87 and 82, reaching 100 miles in both running and walking events. Ultrarunning legend Ted Corbitt (1919-2007) ran fewer than ten 100-milers.īy the end of 1999 a few prolific ultrarunners had piled up 100-mile race finishes. Before 1980, no one ran dozens of 100-milers during their running career, only a handful of 100s. In the modern era, by the mid-1970s, running 100 miles in competition started to become more available to anyone. My new book! Grand Canyon Rim to Rim History For both, most of those races were six-day races where they usually ran far more than 300 miles. Frank Hart (1856-1908) finished about 77 100-milers in 24 years. It is estimated that he exceeded 100 miles in 80 of his races across his 25-year running career.
In the 1800s, the most prolific 100-mile runner was probably George D. The sport of running 100 miles competitively has existed for multiple centuries. (Listen to the podcast episode too with audio clips from the runners.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | JioSaavn | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More By Davy Crockettīoth a podcast episode and a full article Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:22 - 34.0MB)
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