Charlie Sabatini ran his first 100 miler at Leadville. The year before while on vacation he saw a runner coming down from Hope Pass and thought “That looks fun.” The following year he went out to Colorado with a few friends, trained for five weeks and finished the Leadville 100.

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This story first appeared in UltraRunningMagazine on 12/3/2016