Ultrarunning web site Run100s.com reached an enormous milestone final week, celebrating its thirtieth birthday!
The old-school website that features like a web based listing of all issues ultrarunning in North America — with a specific deal with 100 milers, because the identify suggests — was based in Could of 1995 by ultrarunner Stan Jensen.
He advised iRunFar, ”I used to be working at Silicon Graphics in Could 1995 when my boss advised me to make use of our merchandise to make a website online a couple of passion of mine and, with a reference librarian for a mom, I assumed {that a} ‘go-to’ website for ultrarunners may 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 stories, and it grew from that.”
Stan Jensen, founding father of Run100s.com. Picture courtesy of Stan Jensen.
Over time, the location has grown together with the game and witnessed loads of change alongside the best way. Whereas most ultramarathon occasions now preserve their very own web site and social media, the function of Run100s has developed — however not lessened. Jensen stated, “I not preserve private ‘bio’ pages or picture albums and attempt to be a easy portal to assist runners discover what pursuits them.” The location is now a one-stop with hyperlinks to the person web sites of a whole bunch of ultras, in addition to blogs, boards, and a plethora of path working sources.
Jensen, now in his 70s, nonetheless maintains the location alone, however stated: “I get loads of updates from Irv “Wasatch” Nielsen and several other race administrators. I additionally use weekly stories from “UltraRunning Journal” and use UltraSignup for outcomes and dates of future races.”
The location has maintained its easy aesthetic and purposeful format by means of the many years, and it continues to behave as a conventional breath of contemporary air.
Going ahead, Jensen goals to take care of the location for so long as he can, however says he’s additionally in search of a prepared ultrarunning and web site fanatic handy it over to, with a view to carrying Run100s.com into the subsequent technology of ultrarunning. Might 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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