Ultrarunning web site Run100s.com reached an enormous milestone final week, celebrating its thirtieth birthday!
The old-school website that capabilities like an internet listing of all issues ultrarunning in North America — with a specific give attention to 100 milers, because the identify suggests — was based in Could of 1995 by ultrarunner Stan Jensen.
He informed iRunFar, ”I used to be working at Silicon Graphics in Could 1995 when my boss informed me to make use of our merchandise to make a website online a couple of interest of mine and, with a reference librarian for a mom, I believed {that a} ‘go-to’ website for ultrarunners is perhaps 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.”
Over time, the location has grown together with the game and witnessed a whole lot of change alongside the way in which. Whereas most ultramarathon occasions now keep their very own web site and social media, the function of Run100s has advanced — however not lessened. Jensen stated, “I now not keep 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 tons of of ultras, in addition to blogs, boards, and a plethora of path operating assets.
Jensen, now in his 70s, nonetheless maintains the location alone, however stated: “I get a whole lot of updates from Irv “Wasatch” Nielsen and several 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 practical format by way of the a long time, and it continues to behave as a conventional breath of contemporary air.
Going ahead, Jensen goals to keep up the location for so long as he can, however says he’s additionally on the lookout for a prepared ultrarunning and web site fanatic handy it over to, with a view to carrying Run100s.com into the subsequent era of ultrarunning. May that be you?!
A screenshot of Stan Jensen’s bio web page on the Run100s website from December 1998. Picture: Run100s.com
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