Davy Crockett established this site. He is from Utah and began running ultramarathons in 2004. He’s finished about 150 ultra races. With the 100-mile distance as his main interest, he became the 15th person in the world to finish 100 100-milers. You can find out more than you ever want to know about him, on the Davy Crockett’s Running Frontier blog.
This site includes the Ultrarunning History Podcast episodes, Davy’s historical articles, and a collection of ultrarunning articles authored by other historians. It also now hosts the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame.
If you want to start listening to the podcast episodes from the beginning, the easiest way is to use a podcast app that lists all the episodes either on your phone or from your web browser. Google for Ultrarunning History Podcast and you will see many places to listen if you want to binge them.
In 2023, Davy started to publish his podcast content into books. There are at least eight books available in the Ultrarunning History Series.
Davy has always been a history buff. In the 1990s he published four books on the American westward migration. Fast forward to early 2017 when Davy had nearly 90 100-finishes. He started to wonder about the history of ultrarunning. He discovered discrepancies in the Western States 100 origin story, that Gordy Ainsleigh was not the first to cover the trail on foot during the Tevis Cup (horse endurance ride.) Seven soldiers beat him by two years and Gordy even witnessed it. How could that be? The most famous event in modern ultrarunning history wasn’t fully told, with facts purposely left out. With the help of co-author, Phil Lowry, they took a year to research the facts and published online the bomb-shell news that rewrote known ultrarunning history correctly.
Ultrarunning History Podcast
With all that Davy learned about ultrarunning history, there was still so much more to learn and discover. This podcast tells many of these fascinating, untold stories. Davy shares discoveries about ultrarunning history. Podcast episodes come out about twice a month. By 2023, there had been more than 4 million downloads and growing.
In 2020, Davy was selected to be the new director for the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame after years of great leadership from ultrarunning pioneer, Dan Brannen. This “virtual” Hall of Fame was moved to this website. Davy is now retired from this Information Technology career and is also the race director for the Pony Express Trail 50 and 100 held in Utah.
The Ultrarunning History Podcast and ultrarunninghistory.com are owned and operated by Utah Ultras LLC.