UltraRunning Magazine

History, Mystery and Lore

Certain sporting arenas across the globe have taken on almost mythical proportions. Tennis has Wimbledon, golf has Augusta, baseball has Yankee Stadium and football has Lambeau Field. Though I would argue – as impartially as possible – that Western States is more storied and legendary than any of these.

To begin with, the Western States course predates the others not by decades or centuries, but millennia. The first Indigenous

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