Ultramarathoning career of Don Davis

  • Information about my Freshman Seminar, Ultramarathon Running, Fall semester 1996. This includes many of my students' papers, and an article about the course which appeared in the March 1997 issue of Ultrarunning magazine.
  • Kidney Failure and Ultramarathoning, an article which appeared in the March 1995 issue of Ultrarunning magazine. Translation into Lithuanian, Romanian , German, Chinese, Sindhi, Swedish, Estonian, Finnish, and Indonesian
  • A list of the races of at least 26.2 miles that I have completed.
  • Association of Road Running Statisticians' list of longest spans between first and last ultramarathon wins (internationally). I am twelfth.
  • "All-time" fastest Americans at 50 miles. Originally compiled by Nick Marshall from nearly complete race records since 1968, when 50-mile races began to be held in the US, and updated by me in recent years. Look for me around 500. I stopped maintaining this in September 2014. If someone would like to take it over, I would be happy to pass it on.
  • Historical records of the NYRRC Metropolitan 50 Mile Race. We have here complete results of all 35 runnings of this race since 1971, and compilations of top performers in various categories.
  • Age group records for Pennsylvania residents at 50 km, 50 miles, 100 km, 100 miles, and 24 hours.
  • Contact David Allen, paultrarunning@gmail.com, with additions.
  • A list of my miles run each year. I reached a lifetime total of 91,986 miles on 10/10/19, when the bicycle accident probably ended my running career. This is more than a third of the way to the moon. It equals an average of 5.86 miles per day for 43 years.
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