Questions about the archive, the Foundation, and the record.

KansasUltrarunningHistory.org is the primary historical archive and public website of the Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation. It preserves, verifies, and shares the history of ultrarunning in Kansas, including races, runners, clubs and organizations, race directors, volunteers, results, photographs, original documents, firsthand accounts, and other material that helps explain how the sport developed in the state.

The Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation is a Kansas not-for-profit corporation founded August 24, 2026, by Wichita native and longtime ultrarunner Eric Steele. The Foundation provides the institutional home for KansasUltrarunningHistory.org, KansasUltraRaces.com, and KansasUltrarunners.com and supports historical preservation, research, documentation, digitization, publication, and public education.

Not yet. The Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation has obtained its EIN and submitted IRS Form 1023-EZ. Recognition as a 501(c)(3) public charity is currently pending with the Internal Revenue Service.

Decades of Kansas ultrarunning history are scattered across magazines, newspapers, newsletters, race records, personal collections, old websites, photographs, and individual memories. The archive was created to bring those sources together, preserve material that could otherwise disappear, and make the historical record easier to research and understand.

The Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation was founded on August 24, 2026, by Wichita native and longtime ultrarunner Eric Steele. KansasUltrarunningHistory.org serves as the Foundation’s primary historical archive and public website.

No. KansasUltrarunningHistory.org is the primary historical archive of the Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation. It may document clubs, races, race organizations, and governing bodies that have been part of Kansas ultrarunning history, but it is not their official website and does not speak on their behalf.

For the purposes of this project, ultrarunning generally refers to footraces, timed events, and endurance efforts that extend beyond the standard marathon distance. Historical context matters, so unusual formats and events may also be documented when they are relevant to the development of ultrarunning in Kansas.

Sources may include original race results, race applications and programs, club records and newsletters, contemporary magazine and newspaper coverage, photographs, certificates, correspondence, archived websites, interviews, and firsthand accounts. Whenever possible, important historical claims are checked against more than one independent source.

Conflicting accounts are not automatically erased or forced into a single version. When credible sources disagree, the archive will identify the disagreement, explain the available evidence, and distinguish confirmed facts from recollection, interpretation, or unresolved questions.

No. Results and notable performances are part of the record, but Kansas ultrarunning history was built by far more than race winners. The archive also recognizes race directors, volunteers, crews, clubs, organizers, photographers, writers, families, communities, and other people whose contributions helped the sport exist and grow.

Both. The project preserves the past while also documenting the present so that today's races, people, results, and milestones do not become tomorrow's missing history.

No, and it will never be completely finished. Historical research is iterative. New results, photographs, documents, and firsthand accounts continue to surface, and existing entries may be expanded or corrected as stronger evidence becomes available.

Yes. Community knowledge and privately held material can be essential to reconstructing the historical record. A formal contribution and correction process will be added as the archive expands. Submitted information will still be evaluated against the available evidence before historical claims are changed.

No. A submission can be valuable without being independently verifiable. The archive will distinguish between documented fact, credible firsthand testimony, unresolved claims, and interpretation whenever that distinction matters.

KansasUltraRaces.com and KansasUltrarunners.com are historical resources of the Kansas Ultrarunning Historical Foundation. Kansas Ultra Races is race-focused, Kansas Ultrarunners is people-focused, and KansasUltrarunningHistory.org serves as the Foundation’s primary historical archive. Together, the three properties document the broader Kansas ultrarunning record.

KansasUltrarunningHistory.org and the Foundation’s related historical resources are powered and supported by Epic Ultras. Their historical scope covers Kansas ultrarunning broadly and is not limited to Epic Ultras events, participants, or history.

When using information from Kansas Ultrarunning History, link to the specific archive page that supports the claim rather than only linking to the homepage. When an archive page identifies an original underlying source, researchers are encouraged to consult and cite that original source as well.

That is the site's editorial convention. Throughout Kansas Ultrarunning History, “ultrarunning” is treated as one word for consistency across pages, metadata, historical entries, and machine-readable files.