Planet Ultramarathon

The Ultimate resource for what’s going on in the Ultramarathon world.

Ultra History

You will know find all of this information about ultrarunning through the decades at:

http://www.ultralegends.com/history/

Please enjoy.

Phil

6 Responses to “Ultra History”

  1. Christopher Kelsall said

    April 10, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    I wasn’t sure where to post or link this at yoru site, so here goes my comment.

    Just thought you may be interested in this guy’s profile, recently posted up at Flotrack:

    http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/articles.php?id=361

  2. J. Smith said

    July 19, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    A book about the history of long-distance international professional pedestrianism has just been published. It’s called “King of the Peds” and is a whopping 750 pages long.

    http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemD…okid~47329.aspx

    http://www.authorhouse.co.uk/BookStore/Ite…okid~47329.aspx

  3. James Larson said

    June 2, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    Over 20 years ago I read about ultrarunner Chuck Jones in Outside magazine. Recently I became curious about what he is doing now. I’ve done innumerable web searches and have not been able to find any info.

  4. Colt Longwell said

    June 16, 2009 at 10:17 am

    I’m just trying to figure out why you guys don’t list any other great ultra runners? Some of the best ever (Anton Krupicka, Scott Jurek, Kyle Skaggs, Karl Meltzer, Hal Koernor, and David Horton). I mean these guys hold records on some of the best courses in the U.S.

  5. planetultramarathon said

    June 16, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Thanks Colt for your comment. As you can see this page has been redirected to http://www.ultralegends.com Im aiming that ultralegends will contain ultra history from around the globe. But that takes times. Currently there is a lot of info from Australia being posted on it (My own back yard). When thats done I will be expanding my information gathering to the USA and Europe. Saying that, Im quite happy for anyone to contribute articles , results, race stories from years gone by (pre 1994 at this stage) for any countries around the globe..

    Regards

    Phil Essam

  6. planetultramarathon said

    July 10, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Tony Mangan has posted an excellant article about 19th Century Norwegian Ultra runner Mensen Ernst. You can see it at: http://www.ultralegends.com/mensen-ernst-19th-century-norwegian-ultra-athlete/ Thanks Tony

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