White Rim Road, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Peter Bakwin holds the record for running the White Rim in 18h43m22s.
The White Rim Road
is a beautiful, 100-mile jeep road (with 7 miles of pavement) in the Islands in the Sky
district of Canyonlands National Park, near Moab, Utah. The "White Rim in a Day" (WRAID)
has been a classic for mtn bikers since it was first done (probably)
by Buzz Burrell in the mid-1980s.
Paul Pomeroy and Emily Loman ran the White Rim Road in a single push of around
28 hours in Fall of 2002. Emily had an injury flare up during the run, so their
time was slow. Paul went back again on April 12-13, 2003, and did the loop in 21h57m.
I lowered the time to 18h43m22s on December 2-3, 2006
(report).
Charles Corfield started the run with me, but was stopped at 50 miles due to
a foot injury. Charles has completed the loop on 3 occasions since then,
in December 2007 (I don't know the time), March 2008
(19h51m), and December 2008 (19-20h). On our December 2006 run and his December 2008 run
Charles carried a GPS and measured the total distance at 99.79 and 99.81 miles, respectively.
Justin Snow and I mountain biked the WRIAD in April 2008, and Justin's GPS read 99.95 miles
for the loop.