{"id":8950,"date":"2020-06-19T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:07:50","slug":"nys-kirik-inducted-into-ultra-running-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"NY’s Kirik Inducted into Ultra Running Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allan Kirik Inducted into American Ultrarunning Hall of
\nFame
\nSet world road best for 50 miles; first and only
\nAmerican to win classic London-to-Brighton ultra
\nFrom Dan Brannen, AUA<\/p>\n

The American
\nUltrarunning Association (AUA) has inducted Allan Kirik<\/strong> of New York
\nCity into its Hall of Fame in 2009. The 6th Hall of Fame class member is
\nprobably the least well known (and least well appreciated) world class
\nultramarathon runner the USA has ever produced. A classic “mystery man”, he
\nlingers incognito in the annals of American ultrarunning. His ultra career was
\nbarely a blip on the global radar screen. It lasted only three years. He ran
\nonly a handful of ultramarathons in his life. In a sport in which “camaraderie”
\nand “sharing the road \/ trail” are considered essential ingredients, he ran
\nalmost all of his ultra training and racing miles utterly alone. And his legacy
\nof world class credentials was marred by minor technical glitches in three of
\nhis finest races.<\/p>\n

The first of these is what appears to have been his first
\nultra, the 1977 AAU National 50K Championship in New York City, in which he ran
\n3 hours, 2 minutes, 56 seconds, but lost to Fritz Mueller<\/strong>. Only in recent
\nyears has the record been corrected to reflect the fact that Mueller was not an
\nAmerican citizen, and so Allan Kirik was actually one of the first official U.S.
\nnational ultra champions.<\/p>\n

In a sense, the rest of his ultra career was just more of
\nexactly the same: simply put, he ran 6-minute per mile pace for three years and
\nthen hung up his shoes. A friend once commented on Kirik’s staple weekend long
\ntraining run: he would just go out and run 6-minute pace for as long as he
\ncould. This was usually in the 25-35 mile range. In his races, which ranged from
\n60K to 100K, Kirik would do exactly the same thing. And he usually kept doing it
\nright up to the finish line.<\/p>\n

In 1978, he won the Metropolitan 50 Mile in New York’s
\nCentral Park in 5:15:54, probably his worst ultra performance ever, despite
\nproducing the 4th fastest U.S. 50 mile time ever.<\/p>\n

The following year, in the spring he traveled to the nation’s
\npremier road ultra, Lake Waramaug in Connecticut. Running all alone, he set a
\nworld road best of 5:00:30 for 50 miles. That fall, he traveled to England for
\nwhat was then the de facto World Championship of ultrarunning, the 54.26 mile
\nLondon-to-Brighton race. There he proceeded to do what the great Ted
\nCorbitt<\/strong> was never able to achieve. He became the first and only American
\never to win this classic ultra event, running 5:32:37.<\/p>\n

The following year, 1980, he returned to defend his title at
\nthe Brighton, only to find Englishman Ian Thompson<\/strong> on the starting line.
\nIn the mid-70s, Thompson was one of the world’s premier marathoner, with a
\nmarathon best under 2:10. Kirik’s best marathon was 15 minutes slower. So what
\ndid the American do? He tried to burn off the fleet Brit early and run away with
\nthe race. He hit the 50K mark in under 3 hours, but soon Thompson caught him and
\nwent on to win. Kirik hung on for second, despite having run 10 minutes faster
\nthan the previous year. If 50 mile split times had been taken, his would have
\nbeen under 5 hours, with more than 4 miles still to go.<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks later, fellow American Barney Klecker<\/strong>
\nbroke Kirik’s world 50 mile best on a flat course at Chicago, so only a month
\nafter his London-to-Brighton race, Kirik tried to get it back on the hilly
\nCopper Harbor 50 Mile course in Michigan. He missed by 5 minutes, running
\n4:56:03 in freezing, windy conditions that included a hailstorm. The course was
\nlater remeasured and found to be short by almost 2 miles, but the essentially
\nsolo performance translates to about a 5:07:00 for a full 50 miles.<\/p>\n

And only a month after that, Kirik extended his range at the
\nMetro 100K in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, where he won by an hour and obliterated
\nthe U.S. 100K record by over 13 minutes, running 6:37:54. Or so it seemed. A
\nyear later when Bernd Heinrich<\/strong> (AUA Hall of Fame, 2007) set the U.S. 100K
\nrecord that would stand for 15 years, he ran a minute slower. Kirik’s 6:37:54 on
\na certified course missed record ratification because an early out-and-back
\nsection on the course was run slightly short. The race director caught the error
\nand scrambled to make up the difference by measuring and having the field run
\nanother out-and-back section at the end of the race. But such patchwork courses
\nare ineligible for records. There is little doubt that Kirik ran the full 100K
\ndistance, he just could not be credited with the record. Soon after that he
\nencountered injury problems and ended his brilliant, but brief ultra career.<\/p>\n

AUA HALL OF FAME<\/strong>
\n* Ted Corbitt (2004)
\n* Sandra
\nKiddy (2004)
\n* Marcy Schwam (2005)
\n* Sue Ellen Trapp (2006)
\n* Bernd
\nHeinrich (2007)
\n* Stu Mittleman (2008)
\n* Allan Kirik (2009)<\/p>\n

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