Talk:Ultramarathon

Marathon distance
Hi - an observation - in the opening line where the marathon distance is converted from km to imperial it says " ...traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometers (26.21875 miles, 46,145 yards)." Is the .21875 miles the same as 46,145 yards? The imperial distance (as I have it) for the marathon is 26 miles 385 yards. Possibly someone could tidy up that first line. Gold Pen 16:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * .21875 miles is 385 yards. So, yes, 26.21875 miles is the same as saying 26 miles, 385 yards. --yycguy81 (Talk) 16:55, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Do you really need 5 decimal places? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zylstra (talk • contribs) 21:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Improvement
What needs to be improved on this to upgrade its status? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Runningguy (talk • contribs) 01:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC) Does Born to Run really warrant such a large entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zylstra (talk • contribs) 21:56, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Map Issue
I think that the map of North America is mis-labelled. Wisconsin and Minnesota need to be swapped. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.68.84 (talk) 23:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Ultracycling
I am questioning the relevance of this section in the article in particular with regard to WP:N. I feel the concept of ultracycling deserves to be more developed rather than just left looking like WP:ADS. Ghaag (talk) 03:48, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Micah True‎
This is a new article on this unfortunate event involving one of the legends in the field. It will be eligible for a WP:DYK and your contributions would be appreciated. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:35, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Health Effects?
Perhaps a section on studies of the effect of running such races on things like muscle fibers, etc. would belong in the article.--Jrm2007 (talk) 22:29, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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Tried to burn off the brushwood as simply as possible. More content needs to be pruned; in particular, the details per-region are too fat and should be reduced to especially notable ones. All other trivia can be moved to the list article or left to Dr Googles to provide. Tenaqzn&#39;f Fbvyrq Gubat (talk) 06:43, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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Types of ultramarathon events
"There are two types of ultramarathon events: those that cover a specified distance or route; and those that last for a predetermined period of time (with the winner covering the most distance in that time)." I feel this statement is a bit too restricting, and simply not correct. In fact, the huge variation between ultramarathons and ultramarathon concepts is almost a defining element of this area of running! There are multi-day events, a pletora of different surfaces, mountain ultras with huge verticals, street ultras, runs with obstacles, Backyard ultras (with neither time nor distance limits), orienteering style ultramarathons (with no clearly specified distance or route) and so on. I suggest the article returns to more restricted categorization as an intro to the championships and records section (50/100/200 km/miles, 6/12/24/48 hours, 6 days, FKT's, treadmill/indoors/outdoors, ...). ToK (talk) 22:48, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Number of people completing ultramarathons
"Ultra Marathons are run around the world with more than 70,000 people completing them every year.[64]" This is obiously not correct. Even the article that is given as a reference says that: "In 2003, for example, almost 18,000 people in north America finished an ultramarathon. Last year the number was 105,000." This illustrates two things: First the number of runners completing ultramarathons is currently increasing very rapidly. Second, the number of 70,000 people given in the article is much, much, much too low. I suggest that the sentence is changed to something like "Ultramarathons are gaining in popularity around the world, with a huge rise in the number of participants leading up to the 2020's. [64]" ToK (talk) 22:48, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Women's 48 hour record table
H I see you reverted my update of Patrycja Bereznowska for Jo Zakrzewski, claiming that the new record is "not ratified", however according to the referenced line below the old record is also not ratified - so why is this an improvement to revert? — xaosflux  Talk 00:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)


 * See  for what seems to be at least an acknowledgement by IAU of this. —  xaosflux  Talk 00:05, 17 February 2023 (UTC)


 * The current ratified records are here as cited in the article. Ejdguiseley (talk) 00:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ejdguiseley thank you, I updated the list below here. — xaosflux  Talk 01:31, 17 February 2023 (UTC)