Ultrarunning web site Run100s.com reached a giant milestone final week, celebrating its thirtieth birthday!
The old-school website that capabilities like a web based listing of all issues ultrarunning in North America — with a specific deal with 100 milers, because the title suggests — was based in Might of 1995 by ultrarunner Stan Jensen.
He advised iRunFar, ”I used to be working at Silicon Graphics in Might 1995 when my boss advised me to make use of our merchandise to make a site a few interest of mine and, with a reference librarian for a mom, I believed {that a} ‘go-to’ website for ultrarunners is likely to be helpful, since most ultras didn’t have their very own websites on the time. I made easy websites for ultras I’d participated in, after which began importing race outcomes and studies, and it grew from that.”
Stan Jensen, founding father of Run100s.com. Photograph courtesy of Stan Jensen.
Over time, the positioning has grown together with the game and witnessed a whole lot of change alongside the best way. Whereas most ultramarathon occasions now preserve their very own web site and social media, the position of Run100s has advanced — however not lessened. Jensen mentioned, “I now not preserve private ‘bio’ pages or photograph albums and attempt to be a easy portal to assist runners discover what pursuits them.” The positioning is now a one-stop with hyperlinks to the person web sites of lots of of ultras, in addition to blogs, boards, and a plethora of path working sources.
Jensen, now in his 70s, nonetheless maintains the positioning alone, however mentioned: “I get a whole lot of updates from Irv “Wasatch” Nielsen and a number of other race administrators. I additionally use weekly studies from “UltraRunning Journal” and use UltraSignup for outcomes and dates of future races.”
The positioning has maintained its easy aesthetic and useful format by means of the many years, and it continues to behave as a conventional breath of contemporary air.
Going ahead, Jensen goals to keep up the positioning for so long as he can, however says he’s additionally in search of a prepared ultrarunning and web site fanatic at hand it over to, with a view to carrying Run100s.com into the following technology of ultrarunning. May that be you?!
A screenshot of Stan Jensen’s bio web page on the Run100s website from December 1998. Photograph: Run100s.com
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