Trail Ultra Inventor
As the dean of trail ultra running, Ainsleigh has finished the Western States 100 twenty-two times, most recently in June, 2007, though he unofficially completed the race in just over 30 hours (the official cutoff) in 2010. His fastest time was 20:55, in 1984.
Today, trail ultramarathons continue to gain in popularity. The typical distances of these events today are fifty kilometers (31.1 miles), fifty miles (80.4 kilometers), one hundred kilometers (62.2 miles), and one hundred miles (160.8 kilometers).
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