Ultra Marathon: Any race where the distance is longer than 26.2 miles is considered an Ultramarathon. Running a full marathon is a major accomplishment and Ultras take that 1 step or many steps further. The Western States is a 100 mile race. Imagine, essentially running close to 4 full marathons in 1 day. RunningPage.com is under new management and the new owner will be completely revamping the website with updated information, with ultra marathon content and all kinds of tools for runners. The overhaul of this website is extensive so please be patient with the updates. Running page is the Internet's oldest running website and was originally hosted on government servers before domain names were common. To start a running we very innovative and we promise you the new version of the Running Page that is being worked on will be cutting edge.
Ultramarathon News: A 13 year old named Mackenzie Riford recently completed the nations oldest Ultramarathon the JFK 50 with her mother. This is an incredible accomplish for any runner. Its amazing that a 13 year has the fitness level to complete a 50 mile race. For any experienced marathoners having doubts about completing a 50 miler you can use this story as inspiration to accomplish a goal of completing a 50 mile ultra marathon. Congrats Mackenzie looks like Dean Karnazes should be worried!
This listings below are dedicated to races longer than the marathon and may be outdated. To suggest an ultramarathon please send an email to runningpage at gmail dot com. You can email us the details of your ultramarathon and we will prepare a page for it when the new ultra section goes live. Please include a unqiue description of your race.
| Event | Type | State/Country | Date | Phone Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River to Sea | Relay | New Jersey | Aug-01-1998 | 973 584-0679 |
| The Colorado Relay | 180 Mile Relay | Colorado | Sep-18-19-98 | (303) 831-6967 |
| 7th Amman Dead Sea Ultra | 50KM | Jordan | Apr-2-1999 | 962-6 5930435 (FAX) |
| Marathon des Sables | 6 day/ 144 miles | Southern Morocco | Apr -5-14 1997 | N/A |
| Rocky Mt. 50 Mile | 50 miles | Wyoming | May 25 1997 | (307) 635-3316 |
| Ocean To Sound | 50 Mile Relay | New York | Sep 08 1996 | (516) 735-0981 |
| Napa-to-Santa Cruz Relay | 195-mile, 12-member team relay | California | Sep 19-20 1997 | (408) 446-5440 |
| HUFF Huntington Ultra Frigid Fifty | 50K trail | Indiana | Dec 27 1997 | (219) 456-1381 |
| Edmund Fitzgerald Ultramarathon | 100KM | Duluth, Minnesota | Oct 18 1997 | (612) 476-0015 |
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