The 70,000 Mile Club

A large number of streak runners (at least 83 that I have been able to confirm) have accumulated over 70,000 miles running in their lifetime.  Here is an update of their total and streak mileage. Herb Fred has run more miles than any other person with verified records that I am aware of.

 

 Darryl Beardall has run an estimated 280,000 miles but has not been able to locate all his running logs to verify his total.  I talked to him recently. At that time, he was only able to confirm his 2007-2012 mileage.   He does not run on Sundays, so is not a streak runner, but I am including him here because of his high total.  He ran the Olympic Marathon Trials in 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 and still races over 50 times per year (usually 2-3 marathons).

 

 Don Ritchie, British ultrarunner, logged 208,100 miles from 1962 to 2011.

 

Name                                     Age                         12/31/11 miles                     12/31/12 miles       streak miles

Darryl Beardall                 (76)                         278,045                                 281,000**

Herbert Fred                       (83)                         244,950                                 247,142                  136,577

Paul Ladniak                      (66)                         199,684                                 201,174

Craig Davidson                  (59)                         188,800                                 192,600                   190,187

Don Slusser                          (61)                         186,844                                 188,566                   175,258

Jon Sutherland                   (62)                         186,021                                 188,090                   184,132

Jim Pearson                        (68)                         165,790                                 167,219                   157,219

Bruce Mortenson               (69)                         161,844                                 164,457

Mark Covert                       (62)                         157,101                                 158,800                   148,997

Ron Hill*                              (74)                         155,916                                 157,370

Roger Urbancsik                (55)                         146,893                                 153,401                   133,325

Bob Hensley                        (58)                         142,976                                 144,476                  137,349

George Brown                    (60)                         138,816                                 142,566                   135,050

Steve DeBoer                       (58)                         137,637                                 141,400                   139,800

Steve Morrow                     (49)                         132,213                                 137,744                   136,303

Ken Young                           (71)                         132,658                                 134,270                   123,712

Stuart Calderwood            (54)                         132,628                                 134,128                    73,170

Gary Jones                          (60)                         131,102                                 131,902                   125,252

Scott Ludwig                       (58)                         125,845                                 129,687                   129,447

Bob Ray                                (75)                         122,000                                 122,000                   100,000

Barry Abrahams                (61)                         119,242                                 121,446                   118,231

Bill Moreland                     (66)                         118,404                                 120,834                     97,250

Jim Hage*                           (54)                        117,493                                  120,251                     97,251

Jerry Caine                         (62)                         118,194                                 120,221                     72,872

Joel Pasternack                  (62)                         117,815                                 119,661                     17,123

Timothy Masters                (62)                         117,677                                 118,729                 102,230

Steve Kohorst*                   (62)                         114,450                                 117,682

Robert Kraft                       (62)                         113,870                                 116,812                   111,050

John Liepa                           (67)                         114,960                                 116,531                   106,531

Larry Baldasari                 (62)                         112,906                                 115,389                     87,229              

Harvey Simon                     (70)                         111,111                                 113,111                   109,111

Craig Snapp                        (62)                        106,989                                112, 933                      63,896

Al Gilman                            (66)                         110,000                                 110,610

Syl Pascale                           (64)                         109,438                                 109,438

Kenneth Roth                      (56)                         107,800                                 109,100                     89,800

Sherry Case (F)                   (53)                         105,885                                 109,008                       4,750

Ron Jackson                        (67)                         106,000                                 108,000                   108,000

Paul Case                             (55)                        103,380                                  106,420                       9,194

Steve Gathje                        (57)                        103,550                                  105,350                 104,149

Amby Burfoot*                  (66)                         103,600                                 104,600

Alex Galbraith                    (62)                         100,038                               101,790                       91,801

Jim Behr                              (65)                         100,340                               101,666                     100,666

Al Colonna                           (69)                       100,000                                 101,100                   101,050

Michael Fanelli                  (56)                           98,105                                 100,212                       7,244

Bill Stark                              (65)                           97,000                                   99,000                     89,000

Homer Hastings                 (69)                           98,000                                   98,000                     79,550

Bill Robertson                     (60)                           92,276                                   94,103                     83,803

George Hancock                                (59)                           90,102                                   92,081                     86,088

Dink Taylor*                      (47)                           91,500                                   93,000

Mark Courtney                   (56)                           88,600                                   90.300                     87,000

Bruce Sherman                   (58)                           87,200                                   89,900                   86,900

Thad Childs, Jr                   (65)                           88,058                                   89,490                     89,490

Ken Birse                             (52)                           86,750                                   87,750                     55,810

Bob Aby                                (67)                           85,375                                   87,384                     75,291

John Chandler                    (57)                           85,008                                   87,037                     69,029

Rick Porter                          (59)                           84,730                                   86,752                     86,656

Norm Spitzig*                     (62)                           84,500                                   86,704

Frank Russo*                      (62)                           83,004                                   85,554

Doug Holland                      (51)                           84,500                                   85,000

Roger Nelson                       (62)                           82,990                                   84,677                     77,253

Brad Kautz                          (55)                           81,622                                   84,466                     13,018

Bill Leibfritz                       (56)                           82,160                                   84,383                   75,590

Tammy Slusser (F)***     (47)                                                                           84,350

Brian Casey                         (54)                           82,554                                   84,092                     84,092

John King                            (61)                           80,355                                   83,500                     83,500

Brian Short                          (62)                           83,308                                   83,503                     75,496

Bill Finkbeiner                   (57)                           81,700                                   83,200                     81,700

Terrell Worley                   (53)                           82,030                                   83,030                     69,940

Lauren Estilow (F)             (52)                           79,353                                   82,075                     35,655

Jim Bates                             (56)                           79,056                                   82,018                     27,246

Stephen Reed                       (65)                           80,500                                   82,000                     75,000

Rob Zarambo                     (65)                           80,844                                   81,844                   72,924

Rich Holmes                        (63)                           75,530                                   79,697

Diana Nelson (F) (66)                           76,020                                   78,809                     77,422

Dave Melissas                     (52)                           76,811                                  78,034                     61,585

Fred Murolo                        (56)                           74,020                                   77,687                     75,687

Pat Foley                              (64)                           75,877                                   76,705                     49,200

Norm Grimmett                 (75)                           75,653                                   76,653                     55,933

Rick Kerr                             (57)                           73,659                                   76,628                     44,020

Dave Hamilton                   (58)                           74,645                                   75,776                     69,776

Tim Woodbridge               (55)                           74,400                                   75,001                     75,001

Fred Winkel                        (68)                           75,000                                   75,000                   72,000

Ron Shealy                           (66)                           72,780                                   74,699                     36,507

John Watts                           (57)                           72,472                                   73,902                     55,402

Joe Hyder                            (61)                           72,000                                   72,000                     71,000

Grant McAllister                (49)                           69,331                                   71,559                     68,972

                               

* have not had their running streaks certified by the US Running Streak Association

** estimate, which may be higher than actual mileage

*** spouse of streak runner

I probably did not get everyone on the list who qualifies.  Please send your data if you have surpassed (or will this year) 70,000 running miles, at (deboer.stephen@mayo.edu), and I will be sure to include you in the next update.