Early Life and Education
Throughout his late teens, twenties and early thirties, Ainsleigh worked as a woodcutter, logger, construction worker and juvenile counselor while pursuing his educational goals at Sierra College in Rocklin, California, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Davis. He competed in wrestling and track (in the two mile (3 km) event) at Colfax High School, cross country running, wrestling and sailing at Sierra College, and wrestling at UC Santa Barbara.
In 1983, Ainsleigh received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Western States Chiropractic College (no relation to the run) in Portland, Oregon, and was licensed in California and Oregon. During a series of years at the end of the 1980s, when he did not run the Western States 100, he volunteered his chiropractic services to the runners at the Michigan Bluff medical checkpoint. Within a few years, this grew into a team of chiropractors that he organizes each year, who join with medical doctors and podiatrists to assist runners to arrive safely at the finish line.
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