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The Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run (Wasatch) is a 100 mile ultramarathon held annually on the first Friday after Labor Day in the Wasatch Front mountain range of Utah. The slogan of the Wasatch Run is "One Hundred Miles of Heaven and Hell", and it is known for its challenging terrain. [1]
The Grand Slam of Ultrarunning is a set of four of the five most prestigious and oldest 100-mile races contested in the United States, comprising the Old Dominion 100 Mile Endurance Run in Virginia, the Western States 100 in California, the Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run in Vermont, the Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado, and the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run in Utah.
River Shimanto Ultramarathon 100 km / 60 km [2] ... Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run
The Wasatch Front / ˈ w ɑː s æ tʃ / is a major metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah.It consists of a chain of mostly contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from Santaquin in the south to Pleasant View in the north, and containing the cities of Salt Lake City, Provo, Orem, Bountiful, Layton, and Ogden.
The Western States 100 is one of the five 100-mile races that comprise the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, which also includes the Old Dominion 100 in Virginia, the Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run, the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run in Utah, and the Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado.
The Wasatch Range (/ ˈ w ɑː s æ tʃ / WAH-satch) or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about 160 miles (260 km) from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah. [1]
Moehl has raced in more than 100 ultramarathons and has won several, including the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2003 and 2009, [6] the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run in 2004, [3] and the Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji in 2013. [7] In 2015, Moehl published Running Your First Ultra a guide book on Ultramarathons. [5]
"100 miles is not far." --Karl Meltzer With all due respect to ultrarunning great Karl Meltzer, the idea of running 100 miles not only seems far to most people; it seems downright impossible.