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Hundred and one

101 km

The Spanish Legion's 101 km, open to all.

Run or ride 101 km. The full course.

It stands on
Pilgrim's hundred run, Edge of space run, Edge of space ride
The gorge at Ronda, Spain, with the Puente Nuevo bridge between the cliffs.
Photo: Paco Vila, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.

What it takes · Running

Before you go.

Recommended first
Edge of space
Weekly distance
About 80 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
Long weekends
About 7 hours of running over two days in a row, 4 times in the last 12 weeks
Longest run
At least 4½ hours, at least once in the last 12 weeks
Taper
Two easier weeks before the event week

What it takes · Cycling

Before you go.

Recommended first
Edge of space
Weekly distance
About 101 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
Long ride
76 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Edge of space counts
Taper
An easier week before the event week

The story

Since 1995 the Spanish Legion has held a 101 km event in 24 hours around Ronda. Civilians can enter, on foot or by mountain bike. Source: Spanish Army.

The ladder

Running

  1. 5 km
  2. Forager's day
  3. First flight
  4. Mawson's last miles
  5. 10 km
  6. Gold march
  7. Hunter's day
  8. Nut grove
  9. Twelve-miler
  10. Wallace's Line
  11. Wildebeest's day
  12. Half Marathon
  13. Toutle avalanche
  14. Roland's pass
  15. Olympus Mons
  16. Dawes's ride
  17. Laki fissure
  18. Royal Road
  19. Legion's march
  20. Persistence hunt
  21. Norwegian thirty
  22. Chalk Gate
  23. Racing the horses
  24. Rim to rim
  25. Barclay's walk
  26. Long fall
  27. Nijmegen day
  28. South Georgia
  29. Marathon
  30. Fox's crossing
  31. Thirty-miler
  32. 50 km
  33. Mauna Loa 1859
  34. Kailash kora
  35. Chilkoot
  36. Leap to Australia
  37. Pilgrim's hundred
  38. Edge of space
  39. Hundred and one

Cycling

  1. Fox's crossing
  2. Thirty-miler
  3. Mauna Loa 1859
  4. Kailash kora
  5. Chilkoot
  6. Jouett's ride
  7. Iron Riders' day
  8. Birkebeiner
  9. Edge of space
  10. Hundred and one