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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 17: 1,000-milers – Part 1
Description: By Davy Crockett
Both a podcast episode and a full article
In the 1980s running 100 miles started to become more popular for the non-professional runner to attempt. By 2017 some in the ultrarunning community viewed running 100 miles as fairly common place. In recent years a saying of “200 is the new 100” emerged as a few 200-mile trail races were established, meaning that 100 miles used to be viewed as very difficult but 200 miles was the new challenging standard. This may be true, but what about running 1,000 miles? Will 1,000 milers ever be the “new 200?” What? Who runs 1,000-mile races?
In 1985 America’s first modern-day 1,000 mile race w...