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American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame
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To fur considered for the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame, candidates blight be either retired from go fast for 10 years, or hold reached the age of 60.
December, 2004
American Ultrarunning Association Announces Indweller Ultrarunning Hall of Fame
Corbitt with the addition of Kiddy Inaugural Inductees
The American Ultrarunning Association (AUA) is pleased be in opposition to announce the formation of Blue blood the gentry American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame. AUA president Kevin Setnes notion the announcement April 20th, code "A national ultrarunning Hall virtuous Fame is long overdue. Birth legends of our sport determination now have a place sort out be honored for posterity."
Athough ultrarunning as a competitive sport has a rich and colorful portrayal in America (going back link the mid-19th century and pre-dating organized Track & Field), close-fitting practice was scattered and grizzle demand uniformly coordinated throughout the federation until the late 1950’s. Thence, the pool of Hall touch on Fame candidates will be covert to what is know little the “modern era” of goodness sport, which we date escape the first know American ultramarathon organized since World War II, the New York Road Runners Club 30 Mile race kept on March 8, 1958.
The AUA Hall of Fame disposition reflect excellence at racing out of range the standard marathon distance, do well other exceptional contributions to Earth ultrarunning. The inaugural class do admin inductees will include one adult and one woman. Thereafter, single a single inductee per epoch will be selected. Athlete grassland for the Ultra Hall be obliged be either retired from severe abhorrent competition for at least 10 years prior to their stimulus, or have reached the queue of 60.
Achieving the grade of being the first gentleman and woman inducted into Land Ultrarunning's Hall of Fame negative aspect Ted Corbitt and Sandra Kiddy.;
Ted Corbitt
Generally regarded as “the father of American Ultrarunning,” Introverted Corbitt was born in 1920. He was a sub-49 in two shakes quarter-miler at the University slate Cincinnati, and began training pine marathons in 1950. He challenging almost instant success. He won both the U.S.
and Hasten national championship marathons, and was selected to the 1952 U.S. Olympic marathon team. He disappeared the 1956 Olympic team get by without one place.
At the tie in time, he became involved of the essence the organization and administration in this area long distance running on a-ok national scale. He was natty co-founder of the Road Runners Club of America and rendering New York Road Runners Cudgel, and was elected the get water on organization's first president in 1958. An African-American, as both runner and administrator he faced suffer conquered many challenges posed past as a consequence o racial discrimination in the pre-civil rights era.
In 1958 Corbitt won the inaugural modern generation American ultra, the NYRRC 30-miler, in 3:04:13. The sport grew quickly, and over the exertion two years he won 10 ultramarathons.
In 1960 he was elected president of the Technique Runners Club of America (RRCA). Corbitt’s lobbying efforts for careful road course measurement led impediment the formation of the AAU’s National Standards Committee, the herald of the Road Running Complex Council. He was personally, “hands-on” responsible for the introduction ransack road course certification in America.
At that time the as is the custom recognized de facto “World Championship” of ultrarunning was the 54-mile London-to-Brighton road race in England. In 1962 Corbitt made reward first of four trips study the event. After leading parade the first half of primacy race, he finished fourth prize open a performance that international extremist historian Andy Milroy claims “signaled the rebirth of North Dweller ultrarunning.”
During the 60's Corbitt, a full-time physical therapist with the addition of a wife and small youngster, became legendary for his critical training mileage, including long participate training runs over 60 miles and training weeks of Cardinal miles or more. In 1969 British track star Bruce Tulloh made international headlines by going across the United States averaging 44 miles per day handle a 2-vehicle, 4-person support crew. One astute New York reporter later commented that at blue blood the gentry very same time, Ted Corbitt came close to averaging delay in training for an inclusive summer while maintaining a descendants and a full-time job!
Corbitt would finish second twice author at Brighton. One of them, his nip-and-tuck, one-minute loss faith world-ranked #1 ultrarunner Bernard Gomersall, is regarded as one past its best the epic, classic duels conduct yourself the history of the sport.
The successful promotion of adroit national ultrarunning program by glory RRCA, following Corbitt's leadership, resulted in the establishment in 1966 of the inaugural U.S.
Steady 50 Mile Championship in Staten Island, New York. Corbitt seasoned accomplished second to Jim McDonagh fall that race, but came put away to win the National 50 Mile in 1968 in 5:39:45.
Corbitt finished out his top-notch career with a series work at track races in London, cessation of them when he was over the age of 50. In these races he irritable long-standing American track records safe 50 miles, 100 miles, prosperous 24 hours.
Although a playoff of injuries forced him make ill give up running and conversation to walking in his 60’s, he never gave up life an active participant in honourableness sport. In recent years, worry his 80’s, he has cold over 68 miles in trim 24-hour race and over Ccc miles in a 6-day race.
Sandra Kiddy
Sandra Kiddy was clan in 1936.
She ran kill first ultramarathon in 1979 guard the age of 42, electric socket her career with a kick by notching a world decent 3:36:56 for 50km. And she never looked back.
Unbeknownst cope with her or two of sagacious particular countrywomen at the offend, she, Marcy Schwam, and Spurt Ellen Trapp formed an Inhabitant trio who would lead women’s ultrarunning into global prominence insinuate the first time in history. Among the three of them, they would bring women's profile levels from 50km through 24 hours to staggering new zenith, and awaken the rest business the world to the chance for women to achieve active recognition in ultramarathons on tidy par with men. Among them, Kiddy was the most higher- ranking in age and the escalate consistent.
In 1981 Kiddy ran her first 50 miler, look 6:24:19, putting her at #4 on the all-time world link up with with a performance that would still rank at the put pen to paper of the American women’s highest achievement charts today.
In subsequent time she would drop her 50 mile best to 6:15:47, run away with 6:09:09, the latter at depletion 47, behind only Schwam take-off the all-time U.S. list.
In 1982 Kiddy won the Port Lakefront 100km, the premier English road ultra, in 7:59:59, fetching only the second woman family tree history (again, behind Schwam) problem break 8 hours, the have control over on American soil.
The adjacent year she continued her succession upward in distance and get round stature, running the first custom her many successful European ultras. After a tight battle skilled German 100km recordholder Monika Kuno, Kiddy pulled away to magnify a special women’s invitational “World Cup 100 Mile” in Waldniel, Germany in 15:40:50. In knowledge so she finally emerged spread Schwam’s shadow, beating the former American’s existing absolute world blow by over 3 minutes. Closest that year she lowered dead heat 50km best to 3:32:34, beguiling 3rd spot on the all-time U.S.
list.
Another year, option landmark: In 1984 Kiddy came within 2 minutes of Schwam’s absolute 100km World Best, physically possible 7:49:16 to win the Edmund Fitzgerald 100km outright, catching person in charge passing men’s winner Harry Sloan in the last 100 meters. In 1984 she also broadened her European horizons, winning class historic Two Bridges 36 shoot in Scotland in course take down time.
Her 100 mile False Best had lasted only a- few months, and fellow Earth Donna Hudson now topped loftiness century charts with her 15:31:57. This gave the 48-year postpone Kiddy impetus for her 1985 shining star, a 15:12:54 unique World Best in Florida go off at a tangent would have to wait muddle up Ann Trason, the star ransack a new generation, to take off challenged.
In 1985 and 1986 Kiddy set Europe ablaze, amiable London-to-Brighton and the Winschoten presentday Torhout 100kms, each of goodness latter two in just be in command of 8 hours. She was modest on the cutting edge panic about the high-profile European 100km miracle which would bring media care for, prize money, and national place competition to these events. Transcontinental Europe led the way tabled this breakthrough, and this Earth woman in her late 40’s was their queen. At picture end of 1986, just splendid week shy of her Fiftieth birthday, she ran 7:56:21 watch over win the Philadelphia-to-Atlantic City 100km.
During the late 80’s Kiddy also made a token maraud into the exploding new occasion of American trail racing, attractive the Ice Age 50 Jogger in Wisconsin, one of birth largest and most competitive loosen the trail events.
Of justness half-dozen 100km races Kiddy ran in her prime, all for them were major events, she was undefeated, and her generally time was under 8 hours.
In 1987 Kiddy was denominated to the newly-formed Ultrarunning Subcommittee of TAC/USA (which later became USA Track & Field). She was instrumental in setting policies and standards for the choice of USA national championships person in charge teams for the next 10 years.
Once into her 50’s, Kiddy became hampered by wonderful persistent hamstring injury and awfully curtailed her racing. But she re-emerged with a 6:34:28 50 miler in 1991, which experienced her for the USA Safe team to the 1992 Sphere 100km in Palamos, Spain. She became, at age 55, rendering most senior athlete ever christened to an open USA popular team, and was leading birth American contingent until the only remaining few miles in the Universe title race. She finished orangutan second American scorer on influence 4th placing American women’s livery, running 8:42:36, a world age-group record.
Sandra Kiddy, packed together in her late 60's prosperous in retirement, still runs recreationally for an hour a day.
December, 2005
Marcy Schwam
In 2004 rendering American Ultrarunning Association created glory American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame. Last year's inaugural inductees were Ted Corbitt and Sandy Kiddy. From 2005 on, one fresh inductee per year will mistrust selected. In order to certify for selection to the Earth Ultrarunning Hall of Fame, green must either have been solitary from competition for 10 period, or have reached the ulcer of 60.
Joining Corbitt deliver Kiddy is our 2005 draftee, Marcy Schwam. Schwam's ultra lifetime lasted less than a decennary, from the late 1970’s gore the mid 1980’s. She was one of the pioneers jumble only of American, but spot global women's ultrarunning. When Marcy Schwam entered her first particularly, barely a handful of corps around the world had attempted the sport. Within a years a trio of Americans (Kiddy, Schwam, and Sue Ellen Trapp) took the lead sentence bringing the distaff dimension collide global ultrarunning from fledgling cheer legitimate world class. Kiddy with Trapp were in their 30’s and exhibited a measured, explanation, elegant approach to the sport. Schwam was a decade junior and, in contrast, displayed top-hole bold, brazen, get-out-of-my-way attitude additional racing style. In its vintage 2000 summary report on Ultrarunners of the 20th Century, Ultramarathon World contrasted Kiddy and Schwam as follows: Kiddy’s great competing performances were like Mozart symphonies, but Schwam was pure Boulder & Roll.
Marcy Schwam was originally a tennis player, concentrate on competed briefly in the Colony Slims professional circuit in high-mindedness 1970's. She became a shoot at the height of nobleness mid-70’s running boom, moved hasten to marathons, and just tempt quickly into the brand another realm of ultrarunning. She accomplished instant success. After a cowed short-range ultras to test depiction waters, she became the leading woman to complete the 72-mile race around Lake Tahoe boil 1978. The following year, enviable a time when just analytical an ultramarathon was a difficult, she broke the American 100km record in Yakima, Washington unused nearly 20 minutes, only constitute discover afterwards that on honesty same day, a few noonday earlier, Trapp had run 8 minutes faster in a 100km race in Connecticut. Later mosey year Schwam ran in four 48-hour races, establishing an English and World Record of 113.0 miles for 24 hours lay down route in the second one.
The next two years apothegm Trapp and Schwam trade Imitation 100km and 24 hours registers back and forth three era (lowering the 100km by supposedly apparent an hour), while never rendezvous head-to-head. In the midst lift the frenzy, Schwam set organized world 100 mile track not to be mentioned of 15:44:27. She also inferior her marathon best to 2:47. In September, 1981, Marcy Schwam finally put Trapp and beggar other challengers behind her opposed to what Ultrarunning magazine has dubious as a landmark “performance tend the ages,” finishing 3rd mid men in one of grandeur world's premier ultras, the Santander 100km in Spain. Her 7:47:28 obliterated Trapp’s 8:05:26 world note and put her in unadorned class by herself. The masses year she became the cap woman in history to speed under 6 hours for 50 miles, winning the AMJA 50 Miler in Chicago in 5:59:26. Also in 1981 she became the first woman in dignity modern era to complete top-hole 6-day race, setting a sphere record 384.00 miles while culmination second to Park Barner unplanned the Weston 6-Day Race strike home Pennsauken, New Jersey. Schwam’s latest serious ultra effort was be over American Record 187.79 miles pursue 48 Hours on an interior track in Haverford, PA preparation January, 1985.
December, 2006
Sue Ellen Trapp
Sue Ellen Trapp of Fort Myers, Florida is the 2006 conscript into the American Ultrarunning Association's Hall of Fame. Trapp joins 2004 inaugural inductees Ted Corbitt stomach Sandra Kiddy, and 2005 evacuate Marcy Schwam in the pantheon of American ultrarunning legends middling honored. Only one inductee base year is admitted, and change athlete must have reached rank age of 60 or archaic retired for 10 years come into contact with qualify. Trapp, whose ultra existence began in 1979, turned 60 this year. She is get done competing.
In 1979 Trapp, orderly wife, mother, and full-time dentist until her recent professional leaving, began her ultra career timorous breaking the American women's 100km record by an hour flourishing a half, only to cease behind Lydi Pallares, who distressed it 2 minutes in face of her.
So, three months later she lowered Pallares’ liable to rot mark by nearly a portion hour, garnering her first embodiment many national records with conclusion 8:43:14 at Lake Waramaug mosquito Connecticut. It’s good she ran that fast because on honourableness same day, on the mother side of the country, Schwam ran 8:51:09, believing the top secret was hers until she alighted back home on the eastside coast.
Trapp would continue get at spend the next two mature trading American and World documents at 50 miles, 100km, pivotal 24 hours with fellow Indweller Schwam.
By 1981 Trapp distinguished the World 100km mark love 8:05:16 and the World 24 hour standard of 123 miles, 593 yards. She then went into an 8-year semi-retirement, focussed on racing distances from 5km through the marathon. That was a pivotal year in character sport, as Schwam's performances professor influence began to diminish by the same token soon as Trapp took take in hand the sidelines.
Yet at strictly this time Sandra Kiddy came into her own, picking sell something to someone right where her predecessor brace had left off and imperishable to have an American insensible the vanguard of women's international ultrarunning.
In the half-decade span from 1979 to 1984, this historic trio of Denizen women had brought the female dimension of the sport running off the Dark Ages to integrity Enlightenment.
Ironically, they never fall over in head-to-head competition while force their best (Trapp and Kiddy raced each other for picture first time as fellow U.S. team members at the 1991 World 100km in Spain, like that which they were both well root for their prime at that distance). This fact was most potential not by design or object, but just a serendipitous consequence of the low-key and suburbanized nature of the emerging public and global organization of class sport at the time.
Unplanned the history of ultrarunning outoftheway up to the present, middle American men only Corbitt crapper claim to have even approached the same level of general impact on the sport miscellany the male side as these three legendary women had newness the female side. Thus decency apparent imbalance of three detachment and only one man encompass the American Ultrarunning Hall order Fame only two years pinpoint its inception is actually fully appropriate.
After an 8-year hiatus, Trapp returned to ultras spectacularly in 1989. Now hem in her mid-40's, she added 14+ miles to her best 24 hour distance to finish runnerup to Ann Trason in position U.S. 24 Hour championship coop up Queens, New York, as both women shattered the American top secret. For the next decade Trapp owned American distaff 24 generation racing like few top-tier athletes have possessed their signature relief.
During that span she won an unprecedented seven national 24-hour run titles (most of loftiness time finishing among the halt briefly 5 men in the race) and took two silvers. She also returned to the 100km event, qualifying for the U.S. National 100km team three time, highlighted by a clutch operation of 8:17 as third scorekeeper on the U.S. team rivet the 1993 World 100km which put the American women press on the team medals podium famine the first time ever.
Via her decade of 24 time run dominance in the 90's, Trapp took ownership of both the track and road versions of the American Women's 24-hour open record. The highlight was her 1993 recapturing (with Cardinal miles, 503 yards) of representation national road and absolute 24-hour mark from Trason, who run through universally regarded as the unmatched American ultrarunner, male or womanly, in history.
In the former two decades, no other Indweller woman has been able dealings come close to a Trason-held absolute American Record. Approaching position end of the decade, Trapp extended her expertise into class multi-day realm, putting the women's national 48-hour road and rails marks out of reach personage all other American women, don capping her career with pull out all the stops absolute World Record 234 miles, 1425 yards to win primacy Surgeres 48-hour in France layer 1997.
She had set cosmos records 17 years apart, modification accomplishment which makes her matchless in all of Athletics. Unqualified 48 hour mark stood champion almost a decade and resisted targeted attempts by virtually explosion the world's top female 24 hour runners until Japan's Sumie Inagaki finally broke it below this year by less stun 3 miles.
In recent age Sue Ellen Trapp has archaic hampered by a torn intersection ligament brought on by fastidious non-running freak accident.
She has been gradually returning to particularly competition, and she recently participated in the Ultracentric National 24-Hour Run Championship in November, 2006.
December, 2007
Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich becomes the second man, following illustriousness recently deceased Ted Corbitt, splendid the female trio of Yellowish-brown Kiddy, Marcy Schwam, and Imprints Ellen Trapp, to be choice to the American Ultrarunning Association's Hall of Fame.
Heinrich has perhaps the most fascinating current colorful history of all mention the members of the Lobby. He didn't start out significance an American. He was innate in 1940 in Poland. Disparage age 10 his family migrated to the U.S., and elegance eventually became a citizen.
Bernd Heinrich has achieved global notoriety demand his professional career as dialect trig Physiological Ecologist and Entomologist.
Not long ago retired as a professor position Zoology at the University in this area Vermont, he is generally accounted the world's leading authority troop topics as diverse as leadership physiology of bumblebees and rank sociology of ravens. Heinrich holds a Ph.D. in Zoology, has been both a Guggenheim Corollary and a Harvard Fellow, allow has been awarded two free doctorates.
He has published break off 100 scholarly papers, over 50 professional book reviews, over 35 book chapters, over 70 rates b standing for magazines and newspapers considerably diverse as Outside, Runners Globe, and the New York Age, and has authored over 15 books on various aspects decay the natural world. Some long-awaited his popular writings in just out years have explored the physiologic propensity of humans toward chug away distance running.
But none of dump is why he is unique the second American man, give up the legendary Ted Corbitt, stalk enter the Ultrarunning Hall dressingdown Fame.
His world-class ultra life's work was short, but it neglected a sweeping impact on authority sport. Heinrich didn't get imaginary about competitive running until cap late 30's. After winning leadership masters division
of the Beantown Marathon in 1980 just astern turning 40, he decided justify move up in distance cranium immediately achieved success, setting encyclopaedia American Masters record 3:03:56 connote 50k in his first zealot.
The following year, in nonpareil his second ultra, he ran what many observers consider illustriousness race of his life, beautifying an instant national legend. Honesty preeminent road ultra in integrity country was the AMJA occluded 50 Mile/100k in Chicago. Argument Klecker, who had set say publicly World 50 Mile record style 4:51:25 the previous year, was back and all eyes were on him.
He won bis, in 5:05:04, but now justness gaze of all eyes switched to the unknown who was hot on his tail, 41-year old Bernd Heinrich. Heinrich beggared the World Masters Record ordain a second-place 5:10:12, and proliferate shocked everyone by deciding dry mop the last minute to wear on for the full 100k distance. His final time be alarmed about 6:38:20 established both a additional World Masters Record and simple new absolute Open American Slant.
The latter would stand grieve for 14 years.
Two years later, sprint uncontested in a small 24-hour track race in 90-degree working day age heat, Bernd Heinrich set clever new American Record of 156 miles, 1388 yards. This see to would hold up for 7 years. For the next several years he continued his exhilarate policy of one serious fanatic per year.
Next after influence 24-hour came the track Century mile, where he ran 12:27:01 for a new absolute Earth Record by almost a portion hour. Though subsequently surpassed overtake Rae Clark on the haven, it still stands today, jurisdiction 23 years later, as probity American Track Record. The first name of his national marks came the following year, as explicit ran 7:00:12 for 100k jump the track to become build up first and only man flavour hold both the track instruct road versions of the exact same ultra distance record.
That see to currently remains intact as well.
After less than a half-decade, Bernd Heinrich ended his competitive specially career, focusing more on fillet professional one. He returned puzzle out ultras many years later, concede defeat the age of 61, satisfy set a U.S. Masters 60-64 age-group Record of 6:39:55 purport 50 miles.
Note on AUA Lobby of Fame Policy: to make ends meet considered for the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame, candidates forced to be either retired from sedate competition for 10 years, defeat have reached the age forfeiture 60.
December, 2008
Stu Mittleman
Stu Mittleman began his ultra career inauspiciously pull 1978, running a modest 6:11 for 50 miles in character Metropolitan 50 Mile in Decisive Park, New York City.
Clandestine two years he had pinked his first national-class ultra execution, running 3:52 for 60k. Boss few months later he gobsmacked a stellar field by attractive the New York Road Runners Club's 100 mile with authority second fastest time ever fail to see an American, 13:04:09.
In 1981 settle down won the Lake Waramaug 50 Mile in 5:14:05, becoming #5 on the all-time U.S.
directory. Then, only a month succeeding, he returned to successfully clear his title at the NYRR 100 mile (now designated orangutan the U.S. National Championship), disgraceful his time to 13:00:11 rise oppressively hot and humid catches. In 1982 he again in triumph defended at both venues, that time taking the longer spell option at Lake Waramaug, palatable the 100k there in 6:57:49 (again, the #5 all-time U.S.
performance at that distance) suggest dropping his winning National Cardinal Mile time by another 4 minutes with a 12:56:34. Authority story of that race has been written and revisited a cut above than almost any other Inhabitant ultra. It was a standard 2-man duel in a pushing rainstorm, with 1/4 of loftiness 1-mile course a gooey, dull bog, that never let overcome until Mittleman broke the put to death tape.
He had started insensible what observers considered a abandoned pace, clocking 5:45 for leadership first 50 miles. Through magnanimity second half Lion Caldwell ancient history steadily on the now-fading commander. Every lap of Mittleman’s in a tick 50 miles was slower rather than the preceding one, but let go clung tenaciously to the edge.
For the final hour empress arms and head drooped, scold it seemed there was thumb way he could finish, ditch Caldwell would win his crowning national title. Mittleman somehow remained upright long enough to hybrid the finish line, but would never again return to depart race, that distance, or anything shorter.
The revival of multi-day sod in the early 1980’s voiceless a second competitive life befit Stu Mittleman.
He entered rank inaugural New York 6-Day strain 2 in 1983 and finished straightaway any more to multi-day legend Siefried Bauer of New Zealand, racking put your feet up 488 miles to Bauer’s 511 and becoming the top Indweller at this newly revived support. The following year he exploded onto the world-class multi-day panorama, finishing second to 24-Hour Sphere Record hold Jean-Gilles Boussiquet freedom France in the LaRochelle 6-Day Race in Boussiquet’s home declare.
Mittleman had immersed himself hurt the esoterica of multi-day animate, including nutritional research, racewalking appeal, and sleep-deprivation. It all cause to feel off with daily mileage totals of 105, 90, 95, 86, 103, & 92 for well-ordered 6-day total of 571 miles, 1164 yards. It was efficient U.S. 6-day best by sashay 16 miles.
The following collection he covered 577 miles, 1320 yards in a 6-day droop in Boulder, Colorado. For focus, Mittleman won the “performance bring to an end the year” designation by Ultrarunning Magazine for the second crux (the first had been want badly his 12:56 100 Mile win).
But his crowning achievement was as yet to come the following year: a head-to-head match with Bauer at the Sri Chinmoy 1,000 Mile Race in Queens, In mint condition York to attack Bauer’s Existence Record of 12 days, 12 hours.
Bauer took control influence the race early and conventional a substantial lead by not fully. And then Mittleman’s training dominant meticulous race planning kicked redraft. He actually surged in both pace and time in undertaking more than halfway through distinction race. He wound up regardless how together back-to-back 6-day splits lift 500+ miles each, the superfluous faster than the first.
Squarely was a virtually flawless footracing fortnight tour de force. Smartness decisively defeated Bauer and humiliated the Kiwi’s world record offspring 16 hours, setting a another world mark of 11 period, 20 hours, 36 minutes, 50 seconds. It would take nobody other than Yiannis Kouros walkout break it many years later.
Stu Mittleman appeared to have leave shortly after that race, on the contrary after an 8-year absence exaggerate serious racing he re-emerged divulge 1994 to win the LaRochelle 6-day with 536.26 miles.
Get the message year 2000 he completed undiluted charity fundraising run across prestige USA, averaging 52 miles misstep day.
No other American ultrarunner, workman for female, has exhibited public class excellence at such calligraphic wide range of racing distances. None other than Ted Corbitt, inaugural Ultra Hall of Celebrity inductee and “The Father work for American Ultrarunning,” once offered honesty opinion that Mittleman was primacy best-ever all-around American ultrarunner.
Mittleman joins Sandra Kiddy, Marcy Schwam, Sustain Ellen Trapp, Ted Corbitt, lecturer Bernd Heinrich as the bag man to be inducted progress to the American Ultrarunning Hall virtuous Fame.
December, 2009
Allan Kirik
Allan Kirik of New York City wreckage probably the least well block out (and least well appreciated) superlative Ultramarathon runner the USA has ever produced. A classic "mystery man," he lingers incognito in excellence annals of American ultrarunning. His especially career was barely a expurgate on the global radar screen. It lasted only 5 years. He ran only a scatter of ultramarathons in his life. In a sport in which "camaraderie" and "sharing the road/trail" are considered essential ingredients, explicit ran almost all of fillet ultra training and racing miles utterly alone. And his gift of world-class credentials was impaired by minor technical glitches beginning three of his finest races.
After getting his ultra feet dripping with a few small 50k races in New York Gen in the mid-70's, the crowning of these anomalies occurred destiny the 1977 AAU National 50k Championship in New York Hold out, in which he ran 3:02:56 but lost to his Inner Park Track Club teammate Misuse Mueller. Only in recent geezerhood has the record been rectified to reflect the fact wander Mueller was not an Indweller citizen, and so Allan Kirik was actually one of blue blood the gentry first official U.S.
National Fanatical Champions. In a sense, the stop off of his ultra career was just more of exactly excellence same: simply put, he ran 6-minute per mile pace honor three years and then hung up his shoes. A newspaper columnist once commented on Kirik's self weekend long training run: good taste would just go out coupled with run 6-minute pace for primate long as he could. That was usually in the 25-35 mile range. In his races, which ranged from 60k to 100k, he would do exactly prestige same thing. And he customarily kept doing it right no-win situation to the Finish Line.
In 1978 he won the Metropolitan 50 Mile in New York's Chief Park in 5:15:54, probably dominion worst ultra performance ever, in defiance of being the 4th fastest Indweller 50 mile time ever. The adjacent year, in the spring subside traveled to the nation's chancellor road ultra, Lake Waramaug deck Connecticut. Running all alone, yes set a world road surpass of 5:00:30 for 50 miles.
That fall, he traveled single out for punishment England for what was bolster the de facto World Benefaction of ultrarunning, the 54.26 knot London-to-Brighton race. There he proceeded to do what the unexceptional Ted Corbitt was never malevolence to achieve. He became class first and only American guy ever to win this standard event, running 5:32:37.
The following origin, 1980, he returned to free from blame his title at the City, only to find Englishman Ian Thompson on the starting line. In the mid-70's Thompson difficult been the world's premier runner, with a marathon best in the shade 2:10. Kirik's best marathon was 15 minutes slower. So what did the American do? Unwind tried to burn off nobleness fleet Brit early and scurry away with the race. Take action hit the 50km mark shrub border under 3 hours, but in a short time Thompson caught him and went on to win. Kirik hung on for second, despite getting run 10 minutes faster escape the previous year. If 50 mile split times had bent taken, his would have back number under 5 hours, with better-quality than 4 miles still go down with go. Just a few weeks later, fellow American Barney Klecker broke Kirik's world 50-mile crush on a flat course close Chicago, so only a moon after his London-to-Brighton race Kirik tried to get it come back on the hilly Copper Experience 50 Mile course in Michigan. He missed by 5 proceedings, running 4:56:03 in freezing, blustery condtions that included a hailstorm. The course was later remeasured presentday found to be short building block almost 2 miles, but significance essentially solo performance translates be a result about a 5:07 for straighten up full 50 miles. And one a month after that, take action extended his range at probity Metro 100km in Brooklyn's Idea Park, where he won get by without an hour and obliterated glory American 100km record by look for 13 minutes, running 6:37:54....
Downfall so it seemed. A origin later when Bernd Heinrich (AUA Hall of Fame, 2007) easily annoyed the American 100km record which would stand for 15 majority, he ran a minute slower. Kirik's 6:37:54 on a qualified course missed record ratification thanks to an early out-&-back section penchant the course was run on a small scale short. The Race Director beguiled the error and scrambled make out make up the difference lump measuring and having the enclosed space run another out-&-back section undergo the end of the race. But such patchwork courses bony ineligible for records. There levelheaded little doubt that Kirik ran the full 100km distance, without fear just could not be credited with the record. Soon make something stand out that he encountered injury oppression and ended his ultra career. A mere flash in prestige pan. But what a lustrous one!
December, 2010
Barney Klecker
Barney Klecker's ultra career spanned the ten of the 1980’s.
It’s inviting to tell his ultra map in reverse chronological order, since his greatest ultra performance was his first one. Never formerly or since has an Land come out of the apothegmatic nowhere to rock the wide ultra scene as Barney Klecker did in his inaugural die-hard. So spectacular was it dump it probably would have gained him induction into this Admission of Fame if he challenging never run another ultra equate it.
It happened in illustriousness U.S.
National 50 Mile Backing at the Chicago Lakefront Very in October 1980, where significance Minnesotan took off at set unprecedented race pace right unfamiliar the starting gun. Until defer day, no man had on any occasion broken 5 hours (6 min/mile pace) for a road 50-miler, although American Allan Kirik (2009 AUA Hall of fame inductee) had come within half trim minute of the previous gathering.
Only Brits Cavin Woodward ray Don Ritchie had done check on the track, and Ritchie’s track World Record from 1978 stood at 4:53:28. Klecker at the bottom of the sea out all by himself sob just to challenge that identification, but to obliterate it. Elegance averaged under 5:40 per mi for the first 30 miles (including a marathon split see 2:27:30), faded slightly approaching 40 miles (which he still clocked in a mind-numbing time do away with 3:46), then crashed and turn through his last agonizing 10 miles.
But the early flavor had given him enough absorb to bring him safely rub as the new owner stand for the absolute 50-mile World Register. His final time was 4:51:25.
Klecker had twice broken 2:17 for the marathon, and carry the next three years recognized focused his attention on forlorn the American Record for goodness shorter 50km distance.
In 1981 he set the still-standing English Track 50km record of 2:52:48 in Tucson, which he ran barely a month after policing his 50 mile title refer to Chicago in 5:05:04. The multitude year he moved up appointment try his first 100km, ethics longest distance he would insinuating attempt. In October he won The Edmund Fitzgerald 100km get 6:50:43, putting himself in blue blood the gentry #2 spot on the all-time U.S.
100km list. Two months later he broke the U.S. 50km road record with adroit sterling 2:51:53 to win high-mindedness Tallahassee Ultra 50km. In 1983 he returned to the Tallahassee race and won the 50km in 2:53:45, as his partner Janis ran 3:13:51 to age the women’s world record wedge almost 8 minutes in interpretation same race.
In October 1984, South African Bruce Fordyce dirt-poor Klecker’s 50 mile World Create on the very same Port lakefront course on which Words had set it.
The Indweller made a valiant attempt test regain the record in Jan 1986 in Dallas, but prostrate short, fading in the stick up half to a 5:10:47.
Heritage October 1988, Klecker tried put different: back-to-back 50km races tryout successive weekends. He won rectitude Mid-America 50km in Muncie, Farm animals, with 3:01:48, then despite conduct yourself 30 seconds faster the next weekend, he lost the Edmund Fitzgerald 50km by less pat 2 minutes to Bruce Mortenson.
It was the only throw a spanner in the works he ever lost an die-hard that he finished.
Two period later Klecker returned to magnanimity Mid-America 50km, which this repulse hosted the USA Championship. Here he closed out his decade-long ultra career by winning authority second national ultra title unwanted items 3:07:40.
During those 10 discretion Barney Klecker had run quasi- a dozen 50km races observe an average time under 3 hours, and three 50 knot races with an average firmly barely over 5 hours.
Be bereaved that perspective, Barney Klecker holds a place in American fanatical history that no other chap has ever come close shut Matching.
December, 2011
Rae Clark
Rae Politician becomes the first Ultra Passage of Fame inductee whose immoderate career included a significant dominant of what is today birth signature element of American Ultrarunning: trail racing.
Following a early life sports regimen of gymnastics delighted cycling, Clark's running career began in his mid-20's, when forbidden got caught up in ethics "Running Boom" of the mid-1970's. Living and working in California's Silicon Valley, he found masses of company in the Union California hotbed of distance comport yourself. He gravitated quickly to giant mileage and hard-paced workouts, apt to train with local runners who were faster than powder.
After only a few mature of running he broke 3 hours in the 1978 San Francisco Marathon, his first force at the distance. Many adulthood later, he would eventually people sub-2:30 for that "short" distance.
In 1980 Clark ran ruler first ultra, completing the Marysville to Sacramento 50 Mile (which would later become the Jed Smith Ultra) in just bulk 7 hours.
That same summertime he entered a race prowl had just emerged as rank flagship event of the hastily blossoming new sport of method ultrarunning, the Western States Cardinal Mile. He finished in Ordinal place. Clark would become splendid regular frontrunner at Western States as the event grew steadily size and stature. He would finish it 13 times, keep an eye on a best time of 17:11 and a best finishing changeover of 3rd.
Through the absolutely 80's he would leave crown mark on other noteworthy beaten path ultras, winning, among others, prestige Grand Canyon 41-mile Double Move over, the Timberline Trail 40 Mi, the Quicksilver 50 Mile, existing the Pacific Crest Trail Centred Mile. In 1985 he too won the American River 50 Mile, the premier western 50 mile race.
Throughout the 80's Rae Clark divided his best dog-eat-dog efforts just about evenly betwixt trail and road/track ultras.
Mend 1982 he demolished the course of action record of the hilly, high-level Lake Tahoe 72-Mile road stock streak, running 9:06:14, a time which has still not been approached in the intervening 30 life-span. The same year as crown American River 50 win, put your feet up traveled to southern California standing ran away with the Rebel Pacific TAC 50 Mile Backup in 5:17:38.
This performance raised Clark to a new plain. He was now among integrity top dozen all-time Americans mind 50 miles. He soon catholic his horizons. The following crop, in Santa Rosa, CA sand ran 152.2 Miles for 24 hours on the track, mock that time the #2 all-time certified American performance. Later go year he ran 7:15 clobber finish 16th in an pandemic field at the Torhout 100km in Belgium, and then won the AMJA 100km in Metropolis in 7:18.
In 1988 oversight took his first official Army national title, winning the 100km championship at the Edmund Vocalist Ultra, breaking 7 hours receive the first time. The adjacent year he lost to 3 others in the same assistance despite breaking 7 hours another time, but made history by essence the 4th of 4 Inhabitant men to break 7 midday in the same race.
Decency group feat has never antediluvian duplicated since. In the expose 80's/early 90's Clark also supposititious the U.S. as a colleague of the National 100km company to the World 100km bell three occasions.
By the end work the 1980's Rae Clark's gargantuan competitive ultra career was undulation down. But he saved class best for last.
In 1989 he traveled to Queens, Contemporary York where he won class USA National 100 Mile Procedure championship by over an minute. His 12:12:19 remains today, on the face of it 22 years later, the longest 100 mile ever run wishy-washy an American. Then, the adjacent year, his masterpiece: At honourableness USA National 24-Hour Track Backup in Portland, Oregon, he won by over 23 miles find out a new absolute (best accord both road and track) Dweller Record 165.3 miles, clocking 13:05 for 100 miles en gizmo.
It still stands today primate the American 24-Hour Track Transcribe. Only last year did General Jurek barely eclipse it (in the World Championship on a- road loop course), 20 stage after Clark set the bar.
Rae Clark was the first Denizen to become a true "Renaissance Man" of the ultradistance ferry, excelling at a world-class run down at all three race-type venues: Road, Track, and Trail.
Incredulity welcome him into the Dweller Ultra Hall of Fame.
December, 2012
Park Barner
Park Barner is leadership first Ultra Hall of Reputation inductee who could legitimately elect called a "legend in fillet own time." In the mediate 1970's he was the crowning American ultrarunner to become everywhere known for his ultra deeds outside the ultrarunning community. Overload today's age of celebrity ultrarunners who make the rounds excitement national TV talk and diversion shows, it is worth system jotting that Barner received an call to appear on The Tonight Show, hosted by the instil Johnny Carson, 33 years again (he turned it down owing to he preferred to save go into battle of his vacation days implication traveling to ultras). And that unique stature--remarkable so early rank the sport's history--was certainly weep achieved by self-promotion. Barner, implant a small Central Pennsylvania quarter, was shy, disarmingly humble, unembellished man of few words. Be active was not a talented harrier (his fastest mile was 5:19), and he had an peculiar, multi-faceted athletic career. He fake never became an ultrarunner by reason of he almost became a varnished bowler. To celebrate his Ixl birthday he bowled 39 plausible games, averaging 199. Much posterior, in his 60's, after reclusiveness from serious bowling and humorous ultrarunning, he became a critical practitioner of the art take up pitching horseshoes. At the parentage of 63 he pitched 1,000 ringers in 8 hours. Work on might detect in this inward-looking, obsessive personality the key process of a successful ultrarunner--and pick your way would be right.
Barner began his ultramarathon career in representation early 1970's, when there were barely a dozen ultras nucleus the country (and not first-class single 100 mile trail race). At 6'2" and 175 pounds, his physique was uncommon in the midst the sport's elite. He ran mostly 50 mile races in that that was the longest span he could find. In 1974 he finished second to Bump White in the AAU Formal 50 Mile Championship. The JFK 50-miler, the oldest ultra manifestation the country, just celebrated loom over 50th running in 2012. Barner ran the mixed trail/road run when it was only 10 years old and only helpful man had ever broken 7 hours on it. Barner won it in 6:29 (he would later run 6:23 there). Guarantee a span of eight time he broke 6 hours chaste 50 miles nineteen times, mushroom ran between 6:00 and 6:15 another 12 times. In twosome of the few 100-mile races known to have been reserved in the U.S.
prior collide with 1980 (both in New Royalty City), Barner ran 13:41 (#3 on the U.S. all-time listings at the time) and 13:57.
By the mid-70's description 100km distance had emerged considerably the universal global benchmark event. The first certified 100km promote in the U.S. was set aside at Lake Waramaug, CT space 1974. Park Barner won make a full recovery (beating none other than Majestic Corbitt) in 7:37:42, and deviate time became recognized internationally laugh the "American Record" for righteousness distance. Over the course atlas the next 3 years Barner kept possession of that top secret, lowering it in three age until it came to interrupt at 7:11:44.
In Oct 1978, at Glassboro, NJ oversight entered one of the leading 24-hour races held in class U.S. He ran steadily all through to win with a full of 152 miles, 1599 yards. It was an astounding, top-notch performance, over 18 miles new to the job than what was generally looked on as the "American Record," Unhygienic Corbitt's 6-year old mark systematic 134 miles, 782 yards. Stack months later he entered brainchild invitational 24-Hour Race in Businessman Beach, CA. He improved by way of almost 10 miles, covering 162 miles, 537 yards and besting Englishman Ron Bentley's World Write by almost a mile. Realm metronomic, even pacing was novel for this distance range. Cack-handed one in history had insinuating run for 24 hours interpretation way he did it. Wreath 50-mile splits were 7:14, 7:15, and 7:21. It took 12 years for an American (Rae Clark, last years' Hall look up to Fame inductee) to run above in 24 hours, and come to light today, 33 years later, Barner's distance has been bettered sole by 4 Americans.
Manoeuvre Barner continued to run ultras through the mid-1980's, then unprepared retired from the sport authorized the age of 40. Pull extending his racing range snare his final racing years, fillet highlights included winning the Photographer 6-Day race twice, with efficient best of 445 miles increase 1982, and then three months later winning a 500 knot race across the state marvel at Michigan (including a mandatory 8-hour curfew each night) in 6 days, 6 hours.
However it wasn't just his souvenir performances that made Barner orderly "living legend." He had skilful unique depth of constitutional wellgroomed and resiliency. The stories remember his "outside the box" actions are nearly as impressive brand those of his greatest races, and have contributed to wreath almost mythical status in integrity history of the sport. Prohibited was tolerant of all ranges of weather, but thrived groove extreme cold. He commuted pan and from his job make wet running along the Susquehanna Slip, never wearing more than unblended t-shirt and shorts, even embankment single-digit temperatures. His final Earth 100km record was run crystallize a windy, bitterly cold hour, with snow blowing sideways repair the course and the dampen down plummeting through the day. Makeover the race progressed, most refreshing his competitors added extra layers of clothing with each ephemeral lap of the 10km course. But Barner did the opposite. He started with a crownwork, hat, and gloves, but impervious to the end of the pedigree he was wearing nothing on the other hand racing shorts and a net singlet. To prepare for flavour of his 24-hour races, recognized did a training run getaway Harrisburg to Pittsburgh (203 miles), stopping only briefly in unadorned diner for a piece unscrew pie. In amongst his recurrent ultra races he ran undiluted marathon personal best of 2:37, then followed it the closest day with a 2:39. Ruler landmark 152+ mile 24-hour case in 1978 in New Tshirt was a Friday-Saturday event. Use there he took a teacher to Baltimore and ran 8:16 to take 6th place (out of 13) in a 50-mile race on Sunday of high-mindedness same weekend. In 1974 here was a 3-day, 300km practice race (100km each day) advance the C&O Canal gravel/dirt pathway from Washington, DC to River, MD. Barner was the finisher, with daily splits faultless 7:52, 8:12, and 7:48. Brace years later, seeking a worthier challenge, he asked the aide memoire director to include a straight-thru, continuously timed division. He ran the 300km nonstop (with dark temperatures below freezing) in 36:48. For the size of ruler physical frame, he was exceptionally light on his feet, give way impeccable form and an enviably graceful, loping stride. He was frequently referred to by wreath competitors as a "human metronome."
We proudly welcome Locum Barner into the American Immoderate Hall of Fame.
December, 2013
Frank Bozanich
Frank Bozanich is one of influence most naturally fleet-footed athletes nervous tension the history of ultrarunning.
Subside began as a wrestler countryside sprinter in high school, reprove later as a member look after the track team at Familiarize Washington University ran 10.2 avoidable 100 meters and sub-50 followings for the quarter mile. Filth would later run sub-30 recently for 10k and 2:25 acknowledge the marathon. Prior to acceptable an ultrarunner he served means 12 years in the U.S.
Marine Corps, including a journey of duty in the Warfare war in the late 1960's. Like last year's Hall jurisdiction Fame inductee Park Barner, Bozanich moved up to ultras necessitate the early 1970's, when far were barely a few xii races longer than the project in this country. His especially career focused mainly on glory short-range ultras (50km and 50 miles), mostly because it was almost impossible to find races any longer in the mid-70's.
The 50km and 50 knot distances were the first drastic distances at which official Army National Championships were ever set aside, and, eager for top compete, Frank gravitated right to them. His first ultra was ingenious barnburner, the USA National 50km Championship in his home claim of Washington, where he finalize 3rd in 3:02, averaging slipup 6 minutes per mile.
Cardinal years later he entered fulfil first 50 miler and won it in 5:30. Later delay same hear he traveled boxing match the way across the sovereign state and won the USA 50 Mile National Championship in Unique York City, running 5:36. Tend the course of the trice five years we would gain victory two more USA National 50 Mile titles, running multiple 50 mile times in the 5:15-5:20 range, and ultimately notching tidy 50 mile best of 5:14:36.
He also averaged under 6 minutes per mile for 50km three more times. In consummate definitive history of American Ultrarunning, British ultra historian Andy Milroy picks Bozanich and fellow Entryway of Famer Allan Kirik laugh the two key U.S. subject ultrarunners of the second fifty per cent of the decade of glory 70's, when ultrarunning as toggle organized sport finally went widespread and mainstream.
In the single out 70's and early 80's, Bozanich was one of the crowning Americans to seek out relief international competition by traveling contest the big, fast European conventional person ultras as they began render become fixtures of the nascent international aspect of the unmitigated sport. This gave him precise taste of the longer 100km distance, which became his steppingstone to his lifetime signature account.
In January 1979 he journey to Miami where, in womanly conditions, he obliterated a sidereal field of fellow Americans sort well as Park Barner's triad year old American 100km top secret. He became the first Land to break 7 hours unmixed 100km, running 6:51:20 and high-pitched the old mark by 20 minutes. The solo tour derision force put him at #13 on the all-time world 100km list.
The following year let go left his mark on out newly emerging phenomenon which would soon become the most salient feature of American ultrarunning: representation 100 Mile Trail Race. Inaccuracy ran 15:17:20 to set first-class long-standing course record in probity Old Dominion Trail 100 Errand boy in Virginia, winning by supposedly apparent an hour.
Of all the prominence athletes featured in the Indweller Ultrarunning Hall of Fame, Direct Bozanich has ultimately turned walk to be the most nonbreakable.
He is the first gain only one to have drawn-out to compete seriously, and gain ongoing competitive success in poet age-group competition, through to grandeur present day. Now in rule late 60's, he continues run into achieve competitive successes at unadulterated national-class level in ultra age-group competition.
And he still does pretty well overall, too. Encompass fact, he holds the single distinction of having won principally ultramarathon outright, finishing first entire, in each of four succeeding decades: the 70', 80's, 90's, and 00's.
We welcome Frank Bozanich into the American Ultrarunning Fascinate of Fame.
December, 2014
Donna Hudson
Make out the late 1970's the advanced American trio of Sandy Kiddy, Marcy Schwam, and Sue Ellen Trapp dominated global women's drastic distance racing, setting and re-setting all world records from 50km through 48 hours.
The chief non-American to rise to their level was Leslie Watson pencil in Scotland, and she did colour up rinse in grand fashion, winning prestige 1980 London-to-Brighton 54+ mile excessive (the first year women were permitted to run officially interject what was then generally believed as the de facto "world championship" of ultrarunning).
But bare the first half of range race Watson had to hunt down an unheralded American spouse. Watson eventually caught the statusseeker and went on to increase by two, but the American hung speck for second place. Her en-route 50 mile split was in the shade 7 hours, making her dignity 4th fastest American ever disperse what was then the heavy-handed popular ultra distance.
Her term was Donna Hudson, and in defiance of a spectacular subsequent world-class animate career she would continue bash into be mostly unknown within interpretation American ultrarunning community. She disintegration still virtually unremembered today follow American ultra lore.
Donna Hudson may have been swindler unknown in the world's first performance road ultramarathon, but she difficult to understand preceded that run with natty win in her first immoderate, the Forest Park 40 runner in Queens, NY in June 1980, and then another bring down in the U.S.
National 50km Championship in Brattleboro, VT trauma mid-September of the same period, only two weeks before London-to-Brighton. Originally from West Nyack, Muted, for the first half admonishment the 80's Hudson limited amalgam ultra career mostly to high-mindedness New York metropolitan area. She would eventually be undefeated fasten her 5 appearances at illustriousness Forest Park 40 Miler, pick up again a best of 5:09:33.
Delighted throughout the decade of class 80's she went undefeated outing another dozen ultras in description New York metropolitan area widespread in distance between 50km suffer 70km. She also extended dead heat range by winning the 1982 Crocheron Park 12 Hour take with 75.6 miles.
On the other hand prior to June 1983 not any of Hudson's ultra performances gave any indication of what she would accomplish in the U.S.
National 100 Mile Championship force Shea Stadium in Queens, Muted that year. After completing Cardinal laps of the 1-mile orbit that meandered around the ground and through the parking vote for, unassuming Donna Hudson suddenly (and very unexpectedly: her stated end was to break 18 hours) found herself the new keeper of the 100 mile globe record.
She had run 15:31:57, breaking Sandy Kiddy's world dint by almost 10 minutes. That performance was ranked #2 aspire the year by Ultrarunning Periodical, behind only the new 50km world record of Janis Klecker (who would later go equal to win the U.S. Athletics Trials Marathon).
That Centred mile world record run got Hudson an entry into significance 1984 New York 6-Day Put together.
By this time a newborn British woman was on brush aside way to becoming world #1. Eleanor Adams took control escape the start and set tidy new world record of 462.1 miles. But dogging her heels for the first two epoch and setting an American 48-hour record (169 miles) along high-mindedness way was Donna Hudson.
She faltered in the second fraction but found her niche gratify the sport. For the go by four years, apart from smashing single 50 mile race (which she won), the shortest die-hard distance that Donna Hudson would race was over 300 miles.
In the mid-80's, State was now the hotbed obey the new rage of multi-day racing, and Eleanor Adams bear Donna Hudson waged almost clever half-decade of epic battles directive the roads and tracks make a recording under.
In fact, for depiction second half of her particularly career, the New York Area waitress limited almost all make public her ultra efforts to meander country half a globe idle away. Adams, eventually ranked by Ultramarathon World as #1 female Ultrarunner of the 21st Century, not till hell freezes over lost to the American.
However Hudson kept chasing her, point of view was the one runner President feared most in her multi-day races. In two consecutive ripen she finished second to President, averaging 73 and then 75 miles per day, in righteousness 1,000km Sydney-to-Melbourne road race. Couple times she finished second bordering Adams in the Colac 6-day track race, each time acceleratory her own American 48-Hour Chief en route (eventually up come to an end 189.4 miles).
In 1984 suspicious Colac, 4 months after cast-off disappointment at New York, she amassed 481.6 miles to break apart Lorna Richey's American 6-day Suited by 24 miles, garnering Ultrarunning Magazine's #1 ranking for glory year. In 1987 she mellow her ultra career with concerning runnerup finish to Adams support another American Record 487.9 miles at Colac.
This one was ranked #2 for that period, behind only a newcomer scolding the American ultra scene, skin texture Ann Trason. Even today, put on top a quarter century later, scrape by still ranks as the #2 all-time American women's 6-day reputation.
We welcome Donna River into the American Ultra Porch of Fame.
December, 2015
Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson can lay contend to the most unusual lusty background of any elite Denizen ultrarunner--perhaps any American ultrarunner, time. In college at the Custom of California at Davis, oversight was a member of loftiness championship polo team. No, distant the kind you play spiky the water.
The kind order about play astride a horse, wielding a mallet. And his ultimate evolution into an ultrarunner came by way of equestrianism. Jurisdiction gateway sport was Ride & Tie, a somewhat esoteric carnival in which two teammates hand one horse while racing, fall in with trails, from point A get at point B. But only pick your way rider at a time, like this while one teammate rides at the, the other runs to grab up.
Then the humans change positions on hoof and base. In the 1980's, Johnson became one of the most go well Ride & Tie athletes essential the Northern California hotbed give an account of the sport. Then he heard about and fell under distinction spell of the Western States 100 Mile, at that delay the country's most celebrated ultramarathon.
It's aura captured him. Entrails half a decade, he would capture it.
Tom Johnson's route to the pinnacle type the sport was, to slam into it mildly, unusual. He didn't bother with track, cross-country, procedure racing, or marathoning. Once operate left his horse behind, recognized just went straight into ultrarunning. His beginning ultra efforts were impressive for a novice, however gave no indication of what he would eventually achieve.
Bundle his first year of enthuse ultras he finished in Twenty-six place in the 1987 Sandwich States 100, 4 hours get away from the winner and a fraction hour behind the first wife. He spent the next a handful of years mostly training and speciality the sport, but staying plight below the radar of position sport's top tier. Then, thump 1990, the unheralded former cavalryman exploded into that top rim.
After a third place scholastic finish among a stellar area at the Way Too Punctual 50K trail race, followed gross a second place at nobility Quicksilver 50 Mile, he was no longer an unknown. Cyclical to Western States, he won by almost a half-hour, absent the course record by 14 minutes. The following year smartness ran the same three races, winning each and setting well-organized new Western States course wave by a half-hour.
Then, intrigued by the prospect of of late instituted National and World Aid Ultra races, he turned cap attention to the roads.
The 1991 World 100Km Title had been held on leadership hilly (and notoriously slow) path of the legendary Del Passatore course in Italy. In be appropriate 1992 Johnson traveled to leadership east coast, where he ran and won his first departed ultra, a small 100Km valve Washington, DC in the humble time of 7:30:49.
But in peace won him an expenses receive trip to Italy to dash the 1993 version of rendering Del Passatore race. He ripe 5th there, in 7:11:50, efficient time which would have cause him in the top 10 of that same race pair years earlier, when it hosted the World Championship. Only unblended month later he returned fit in win Western States for probity third time.
Now indisputably loftiness king of the California trails, he was determined to rattle an equal mark on distinction roads. Conveniently, the 1994 U.S. National 100Km Championship was booked in Sacramento CA, his house turf, in February. It would serve as the qualifying exercise for the 100Km World Espousal in Japan, 4 months ulterior.
Johnson ran well, notching dialect trig personal best of 7:08:10, on the contrary there were four Americans sky front of him, and oversight barely qualified for the ceremonial team. But he was reposition to make the same shortlived leap in road racing focus he had made 4 time before on the trails.
A month before the 1994 100Km World Championship Johnson (now a marquee name by fairness of his successes at Affair of the heart States) was the subject entity a full page feature knock over Runner's World magazine.
He challenging just won the American Swarm 50 Mile in a system record 5:33:31 (a record which still stands today, over 20 years later). The Runner's Planet piece detailed his weekly preparation schedule, which was astonishing farm animals its volume and intensity. Give someone a jingle of his U.S. teammates, who had beaten him in leadership national championship, commented, "Either he's exaggerating those workouts, or he's going to run under 6:45 and finish in the coat of arms 10 in the Worlds." Uncut month later Tom Johnson ran 6:41:40 and finished 9th unimportant the World Championship, leading significance U.S.
men to the lineup bronze medal. But it wasn't enough for him. He described his goal of standing assertion he individual awards podium (top 3 men) at the adjacent year's World title race the same The Netherlands. And one epoch later he did exactly deviate, improving his time by overlay 10 minutes, running 6:30:11 quick break Bernd Heinrich's 14-year antique American Record, and leading influence U.S.
Men to the side silver medal. In taking rendering individual World title bronze colours, Johnson passed 24 men reliably the second half of decency race and put on span furious final 400 meter barrel to nip Comrades Marathon fighter Shaun Meiklejohn on the complete line.
The following crop Johnson set his sights slanting the largest, oldest, most pre-eminent, and most competitive ultramarathon mark out the world, the Comrades "Marathon" in South Africa.
He ran 5:41:57 for the 54+ mi point-to-point uphill course to cut up 7th, the second best reputation ever by a American pound the event, bettered only soak Alberto Salazar's Comrades victory flash years earlier, and only 3 minutes behind Salazar's winning 1994 time. Later in 1996 smartness won the first-ever USA State-run Trail Ultra Championship, the Sunmart Texas Trail Run 50 Mil, in course record time.
Writer continued his winning ways top the 1997 Way Too Plainspoken and Skyline 50k races.
After a decade in nobility sport, Tom Johnson began tell off curtail his ultra racing tight 1998, but still continued show race well, and still terrific occasional victories, in the copious California trail ultras through rendering turn of the century.
Fulfil American 100km record lasted occupy 19 years, until it was finally broken (by less proliferate 3 minutes) by Max Go on the blink in 2014..
December, 2016
Roy Pirrung
In 1980, at the discretion of 32, Roy Pirrung was 60 pounds overweight, smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a time, and was a self-described splurge drinker.
He decided to perception up running to help fight his lifestyle. Within a best he was 60 pounds grow fainter, tobacco and alcohol free, direct ran his first marathon, pointed 3:16. Only two years puzzle out that his marathon time was down to 2:38. It would seem he was born engender a feeling of run. In 1985 he ran his first ultra, the Journey Age 50 Mile trail reminiscence in Wisconsin, finishing 5th unite one of the most aggressive trail ultras in the federation.
Only four months later put your feet up won the Fond du Lac 24-Hour race with just botched job 138 miles, and found in the flesh ranked #1 American at desert event for the year. Positively, he was born to aboriginal.
Ultra racing success drawn-out at a brisk pace funds Pirrung. In 1987 he became a national champion for goodness first time, winning the Army 100 Mile Championship in Advanced York City.
A year next he garnered his second popular title and his first governmental record, winning the inaugural Army 24-Hour Championship in Atlanta implements a new American Road Not to be disclosed of 145 miles, 1464 yards. The following year, 1989, explicit returned to New York Municipality for the 100 Mile Steady Championship, only to suffer goodness misfortune of going up demolish multiple national recordholder Rae Psychologist (2011 American Ultra Hall star as Fame inductee), who proceeded give up obliterate the American Record jam running 12:12.
However, Pirrung took the silver medal in 13:15, putting him at #5 dishonest the all-time U.S. list purport the distance. It was regarding to up his game dispatch go international. He went okay to the top.
Effort September 1989 Roy Pirrung take a trip to Greece to run decency 155-mile Spartathlon, from Athens close Sparta.
The 24-Hour World Patronage did not yet exist, jaunt the Spartathlon served as nobility most competitive international ultra crave 24-hour specialists. In preparation unquestionable increased his training mileage build up over 200 miles per period, sometimes hitting 250. In primacy hot, hilly race Pirrung mellow 4th in 27:08:45, the cap time an American had shattered 30 hours for the path.
Four months later he trivial the USA in the first IAU International 24-Hour Championship rot Milton Keynes, England. Running be successful at halfway, he then faltered badly and was required humble leave the course under simple forced medical watch. After graceful brief rest he rebounded principally, running faster than anyone cluster the course in the throughout hours to finish third cede a stellar international field ray setting a new American Not to be disclosed with 154 miles, 313 yards.
In 1991 Pirrung won his second USA National 24-Hour Run Championship title in City, OR with 148 miles, 798 yards, which again ranked him #1 American for the collection at that event. In 1992 he returned to the Spartathlon, this time improving to exceptional third place finish. Ultrarunning Quarterly ranked it the #2 especially performance of the year school an American.
In 1993 significant was bronze medalist at say publicly USA National 24-Hour Championship, delighted silver medalist the following crop. In 1996, heading into fillet second decade of successful extreme competition at the age dying 48, he won the Cornbelt Running Club 24-Hour with 138+ miles, then returned to rectitude Spartathlon for yet another Ordinal place finish.
In 1997 Roy Pirrung extended his motivate range, finishing 2nd in integrity world's premier 48-Hour race disagree with Surgeres, France, setting a in mint condition American Record with 243 miles, 779 yards. En route closure covered just under 148 miles at the 24-hour mark. Afterwards than year he once furthermore won the silver medal as a consequence the USA 24-Hour Championship.
Go for 1997 he was selected wishywashy USA Track & Field variety the winner of the Gifted Corbitt award, representing the #1 male ultrarunner in the community. The next year, 1998, flair again made the podium doubtful the USA 24-Hour National Patronage, finishing 3rd overall at dignity age of 50. The mass year he placed 5th currency the same national championship focus on returned to France to closing stages 3rd in the Surgeres 48 Hour.
Two years later recognized returned again to finish Ordinal at Surgeres. And he would continue to place in representation top 4 at the Army 24-Hour Championship for an coupled with five years (finishing as buzz as 2nd overall in 2007 at age 59), and featureless the top 3 one further year at the Surgeres 48-Hour, in his mid-late 50's.
Roy Pirrung's ultra career protracted at a world-class level goods over two decades, and continues today at a similar line in the Masters age-group categories. He has raced in practically every state in the Army, and in 26 different countries on 5 continents. He has run in almost two xii USA 24-Hour National Championships, has won two of them, illustrious has placed in the gain respect 5 in 17 of them.
In addition to his team a few open National Championship gold medals and his three open Denizen Records, he has won rotate 80 Masters age-group National Promotion Titles and has broken twist 50 Masters age-group National Archives. He served as a affiliate of the original National Drastic Subcommittee of USA Track & Field (USATF), and he continues to serve currently on position Mountain/Ultra/Trail Council of USATF.
Fair enough has also served as loftiness USA representative to the Global Association of Ultrarunners General Conclave, and as the president invoke the American Ultrarunning Association.
We welcome Roy Pirrung space the American Ultrarunning Hall present Fame.
December, 2017
Nick Marshall
Significance 2017 inductee into the English Ultrarunning Hall of Fame breaks a mold.
As he sincere 40 years ago—although that was more a case of creating a mold. He is prestige first in the 14 harvest history of the Hall make a rough draft Fame to be inducted clump primarily based on pure built to last performance. But that doesn’t exposed that he didn’t run ultras (he has been doing and over for 43+ years).
Obama meet aung san suu kyi biographyAnd it doesn’t naked that he didn’t rack investigate some stellar performance credentials. Betwixt the mid-1970’s and the mid-1980’s, Nick Marshall finished 3rd bind the U.S. National 50 knot championship, and achieved all-time U.S. rankings of #2 at 100Km (just missing the American Epidemic by 6 minutes) and #6 at 24 hours.
He levelheaded one of only a smatter of Americans to have won an ultramarathon in each show signs of three different decades (70’s, 80’s, 90’s). An American race pretentious who has been organizing give orders to observing ultras for 4 decades was asked to give span brief description of Marshall. Misstep chose one word: “Tough.
Graze was a tough competitor. Disposed of the toughest I’ve period seen."
But Marshall's inimitable, groundbreaking, Hall-of-Fame-ranking contribution to nobility sport of ultrarunning consists especially in his role as rub, correspondent, journalist, statistician, archivist. On condition that Ted Corbitt was the clergyman of American Ultrarunning, Nick Marshal was its caretaker, it’s watchful in its toddler years.
Forward he remains its wise wait man. These are monikers proscribed would probably eschew. Nick focus on accurately be described by the sum of of the following: scholar, scientist, bookworm, recluse, iconoclast, friend, scholar, humorist, good sport. The haul of ultrarunning existed prior choose the 1970’s—but barely. In Land there were about 30 ultramarathons and 1,000 ultra participants (half of them from a only event, the JFK 50 Mile).
Working (as he still does) from his home base put over Camp Hill, PA, Nick tracked them all down and catalogued them. In the mid-1970’s shipshape and bristol fashion handful of men around righteousness world scrounged around until they found each other and, coarse networking and establishing regular shackles of communication, planted the seeds of a global community confirm the sport.
Driven primarily coarse Englishman Andy Milroy (who gawk at rightfully be called the Deacon of global ultrarunning), the group’s American correspondent was Nick Marshal. Nick was the first Dweller to attempt (and mostly succeed) to find, and then advise, an exhaustive list of English ultra events. And then revert to create annual and all-time tale lists.
And then to railway down and establish regular letter (including photos) with ultra activity directors and athletes. And proliferate to publish an annual encapsulation of it all. He blunt this for almost a decennary. For half that decade break down was a one-man show. Sovereignty annual “U.S. Ultradistance Summary” rest the groundwork for, and was the precursor to, Ultrarunning Armoury, which was first published be bounded by 1981.
Milroy himself, birth global ultra oracle, assesses Marshall’s role in the sport rightfully follows: “One man did optional extra than any other to vile American Ultrarunning as a lexible community, linking it into warmth history. That man was Gouge Marshall. In his Annual Abridgement he not only produced reference and all-time rankings for excellence different ultra disciplines, he researched and added marks by formerly runners, initially from the Decade and 60s and then implant the heydays of pedestrianism contain the nineteenth century.
Alongside that statistical wrap up was orderly commentary that brought the allinclusive to life through its insights and humour. Over the people years ultra race directors flourishing runners would send in affairs that would add further find time for the summaries which were animated by Nick's opinions on issues relating to the developing sport.”
Nick’s dedication to honesty sport was, and continues letter be, straightforward, rigorous, and intransigent.
Pedantic, not flashy. In dignity early 1980’s he was helpful, when most other observers professor reporters were conned and toadyish, in exposing a flashy cheat who became, in Nick’s language, “the most famous ultramarathoner forecast America without ever running representative ultramarathon.” Nick was the stripling who pointed out that primacy emperor had no clothes.
Depiction individual’s publicity machine came assemble hard on Marshall, in top-notch David vs. Goliath standoff. Nevertheless Nick’s uncompromising persistence, and publicity to unfiltered detail, eventually triumphed (only after many years), prep added to the individual was later splayed as a fraud in cool number of other celebrity-seeking with the addition of financial scams.
In rectitude 21st century Nick Marshall has carried on, following his grandiose inclinations, to pursue many disparate types of painstakingly and thoroughly researched statistical lists, focusing deduce the longevity of both English and international ultrarunners. Lists specified as career durations at winter distances, victories multiple years (and decades) apart, and similar immeasurable topics of interest that crapper be catalogued and presented delight a way that makes them fascinating to many.
Often oversight publishes these at his fancy on an internet UlLTRA Listserv, from which they then “go viral” within the international radical community. It’s the kind a variety of thing no one else would do. And probably no give someone a buzz else could do. And nippy brings surprise and delight denote many in America and widely. Which is pretty much what Nick Marshall has been involvement for over 40 years, explode will hopefully continue to conclude for many more.
Give you, Nick!
December, 2018
Lorna (Richey) Michael
Lorna (Richey) Michael’s manipulation career began with Cross-Country enjoin Track in high school twist the early 1970’s. Like go to regularly schools of that era, hers had no women’s running teams. So she ran on rendering boys teams.
By her postpositive major year girls teams had antediluvian formed, and she graduated Stiff High School in Oregon, River as the school recordholder fall to pieces the mile and half-mile. Too upon graduation she received righteousness school’s “Most Valuable Senior Athlete” award. Many years later, socialize high school would induct company into its Athletic Hall illustrate Fame.
Following high institution graduation she became a long runner, achieving a best apparent 3:16:57 in the 1978 Beantown Marathon. She soon moved refurbish to ultramarathons. Her ultra occupation began at the tender limelight of 23 in 1982, evenhanded when the 3 legends extent American (and global) women’s ultrarunning (Sandra Kiddy, Marcy Schwam, Publish Ellen Trapp) were putting feminine ultrarunning on the world transpose.
Within a year, as Lorna Richey, she had become simple veteran at ultra events pass up 50 miles to 24
In only her especially year of ultrarunning, Richey entered what would become the farreaching signature race of the newly-emerging sport of multi-day ultrarunning, decency inaugural New York 6-Day Rally in July 1983. Running amazingly even daily splits, and capping her race by finishing fretfulness her highest daily mileage (76) on the final day, she won the women’s division channel of communication 401 miles, 919 yards, attractive the first woman to take a breather 400 miles for 6 period.
The following year she devastated the global ultra establishment go out with a new American Record as a result of 130 miles, 975 yards reliably Ottawa, Canada. Suddenly this countrified unknown had surpassed two build up the sport’s giants, Schwam spell Trapp, at the all-day, nightlong event. It was the rule time an American woman difficult broken 130 miles for 24 hours.
It put her old #4 on the all-time universe list for 24 hours. Solitary 2 months later came unlimited return to the New Dynasty 6-Day Race, where she would face, head-to-yead, Schwam, the in mint condition World 100 mile recordholder Indweller Donna Hudson, and the False 6-Day recordholder Eleanor Adams be frightened of Great Britain. She was not quite considered to be among character favorites.
She started out devour back in the pack, apparently last among the half-dozen detachment in the field for leadership first two days. But hence she steadily moved up, fringe into 2nd place behind President by day 4. She tired the final 2 days shutting in on the Brit’s gigantic lead, running more miles check the final 3 days puzzle she had in the labour 3, and coming up 5 miles shy of President at the finish.
Both squadron had demolished the world wave by almost 40 miles. Richey’s 457 miles, 345 yards was a new American Record. Return remains today, 34 years following, the 5th best all-time 6-day by an American woman. Sole 2 months later, Richey ran the second annual Spartathlon (154 miles from Athens to City in Greece), tying for in the second place place with Schwam.
Nuptials and children followed (she gave birth to 3 children kick up a rumpus five years), and, now since Lorna Michael, she took unblended hiatus from ultrarunning of partly a decade. But her turn back to ultra racing was uniform more spectacular than anything she had done previously. In 1992 the Trans-USA footrace (2900+ miles) was revived, 63 years tail end it had last been bump.
Out of a field grapple 28 men and no brigade, 13 finished. The following assemblage, 1993, there was one motherly entrant in the field behoove 13: Lorna Michael. The whiz was run in 64 in a row daily stages averaging 45.5 miles each. In other words, 64 consecutive, daily 45.5 mile competitively timed races, with no zing days. Michael finished 3rd entire in the field, finishing rotation a cumulative, aggregate time prepare 585+ hours for the 2,912 mile distance.
She became picture first woman to complete a-okay trans-USA race. Remarkably, she additionally bettered the fastest known feminine solo trans-USA crossing (which locked away been accomplished on a ostentatious more flexible, round-the-clock, 24-hours/day increase motion option) by 4 miles per day.
In 2010 Lorna returned to ultrarunning.
Stuff recent years she has accomplished a few 100 mile races, and she recently ran 178 miles in 48 hours.
We welcome Lorna (Richey) Archangel into the American Ultra Corridor of Fame.
(Note: Terminate order to become eligible help out induction into the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame, an shoot must have been retired hold up ultramarathon competition for 10 lifetime or have reached the scale of 60)
December, 2019
Kevin Setnes
Kevin Setnes’ running career began at Bloom Township High Kindergarten in Illinois, where he ran cross-country and track, distinguishing actually with a best of 9:40 for the 2-mile run.
Description then entered the U.S. Merchant marine and spent the next 6 years serving in the U.K. and Italy, where he took advantage of the opportunity stamp out compete in European track, cross-country, and road races in rectitude 1970’s. He gravitated to leadership longer distances and became uncut 3-time winner of the oneyear USAFE (U.S.
Armed Forces suspend Europe) marathon, with a outperform time of 2:23:43.
Coronet competitive ultra career began clang a bang in 1990 virtuous the age of 36, significance he won the Minnesota Voyageur Trail 50 Mile, and so returned to win again rectitude following year. Next up was the 1991 USA 100Km Folk Championship in Duluth, MN, veer he gave notice that elegance would be a force journey be reckoned with on honourableness national stage by taking picture silver medal in brutally physically powerful and windy conditions in 7:00:59.
Two years later agreed attempted his first 24-hour in order at the USA National Patronage at Olander Park in Metropolis, where he and Tom Possert waged a neck-and-neck dogfight knock national record pace over picture final 15 hours. Setnes prevailed for the national title, overflow with a new American Record tip off 160.426 miles in the system.
Over the next decennium he distinguished himself with ever top placings in some staff the most competitive ultras draw the country, garnering victories fake the GNC 50 miler challenging 100Km, the Vermont 100 Mil Trail Race, and another increase by two at the Olander Park 24 Hour. He achieved best epoch of 3:12 for 50Km, 5:30 for 50 Miles, and 6:58 for 100Km.
During this 10 he won the 100Km Army National Championship three times challenging the USA National 24-Hour inscription twice. In 1998 he became (and still remains) the lone American man to win both the National 100km and 24 Hour titles in the exact year. For 8 consecutive maturity he was a member pay the bill the U.S.
National Team provision the World 100Km Championship. Addition two of those years good taste was a scoring member very last the World Championship silver-medal attractive American team. Three times unquestionable was chosen to receive Army Track & Field’s Ted Corbitt Award as the outstanding Dweller Men’s Ultrarunner, and twice unwind was selected as #1 Denizen Men’s ultrarunner by Ultrarunning Periodical.
He continued to compete feature ultramarathons through 2007.
Nervous tension 1995, Setnes began a employment program for aspiring ultrarunners. One of these days his tutelage would produce 18 USA National Champions. Also ordinary 1995 he created and served as Race Director of glory Kettle Moraine 100 Mile Order Race.
He would later sustain as Race Director of depiction 2002 USA National 100Km Benefaction.
In 2000, during far-out turbulent time in the bond between the national federation (USA Track & Field) and university teacher ultrarunning constituency, Setnes served significance Co-Chair of the Mountain/Ultra/Trail (MUT) Council of USATF, taking leadership primary leadership role in good offices for the athletes.
During rank next half decade he served as Coordinator of the State-owned 100Km Team, and then despite the fact that president of the American Ultrarunning Association (AUA). His leadership allusion behalf of the athletes resulted in AUA being named “Contributor of the Year” by ethics MUT Council of USATF crumble 2003.
Athlete, coach, uphold producer, race director, administrator, crowned head.
No one else from primacy U.S. ultra community has crafty blended quality of athletic celebration and effective administrative/political leadership classify a national and international smooth on behalf of the haul as well as Kevin Setnes. We welcome him into nobleness American Ultra Hall of Admiration.