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The Western States Endurance Run, known commonly as the Western States 100 or Western States, is a 100.2-mile (161 km) ultramarathon that takes place on California's Sierra Nevada Mountains trails each year on the last full weekend of June. Western States is one of the most competitive ultramarathons in the United States, and is administered by ...
The Western States Endurance Run isn’t so much a race as it is torture, spooled out slowly and sadistically over 100 miles. It’s a test of willpower, fortitude and pain tolerance more than a ...
Eleven-time 100-Mile/1 Day Silver Buckleholder at the Western States Endurance Run [16] (i.e., better than ten twenty-four-hour finishes), 1995–2006; Ran 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the United States from Disneyland to New York City in 75 days, running 40 to 50 miles (65 to 80 km) per day, 2011 [17] [18] Swimming across the San Francisco Bay
The Western States Trail Ride, popularly called the Tevis Cup, is a 100-mile endurance ride. The amateur event has been held annually since 1955 except in 2008 when it was cancelled due to forest fires and in 2020 when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] [2] The ride is sanctioned by the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC ...
Scott Gordon Jurek (born October 26, 1973) [1] is an American ultramarathoner, author, and public speaker.Throughout his running career, Jurek was one of the most dominant ultramarathon runners in the world, winning the Hardrock Hundred (2007), the Badwater Ultramarathon (2005, 2006), the Spartathlon (2006, 2007, 2008), and the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run (1999–2005).
Cooper has competed in the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii 11 times and has won the legendary Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile ultra-marathon. He is not a man accustomed to sitting ...
Nurse, Trail runner. Years active. 2003-. Rory Bosio is an American ultramarathon runner. [1] She is specializes in mountain running, and won the 2013 and 2014 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc . Bosio is a pediatric intensive care nurse from Truckee, California, United States. She grew up in Truckee attending North Tahoe High School, where she ran her ...
Twietmeyer is the only person to have completed the Western States Endurance Run more than 25 times in under 24 hours. His five WS100 victories came in 1992, 1994–1996, and 1998. [2] In 2003, he completed an unprecedented 15 consecutive top-five finishes.