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Pilgrim's hundred

100 km

The last 100 km to Santiago.

Run 100 km. What a walker needs for the certificate.

It stands on
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Two pilgrims walking a lane past a mossy stone wall on the Camino de Santiago.
Photo: Fresco Tours, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr.

What it takes

Before you go.

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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

The story

The Pilgrim's Office in Santiago gives the Compostela certificate to anyone who walks the last 100 km to the cathedral. Riders need the last 200 km. Source: Pilgrim's Office, Santiago.

The ladder

  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