Stu Mittleman

Stu Mittleman is an ultradistance running champion as well as a fitness and running coach and author. He set three consecutive American 100-mile road race records at the US National Championships from 1980 to 1982, and his fastest 100-mile run was 12 hours 56 minutes. In 1986 he won the 1,000 Mile World Championship and set a new world record by running the distance, 1,609.344 kilometers, in 11 days, 20 hours, 36 minutes and 50 seconds. He also set three consecutive modern-era American records in the six day race, the last in 1985 at the University of Colorado Field House with 577 miles. In December 2008 he became the sixth American, and the third American man, inducted into the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame.