At Mt. Wilson Race, Endurance Endures

Saturday, May 28, is the day of the Mt. Wilson Trail Race, an 8.6 mile out-and-back event that was first run, for a $150 gold medal, in 1908. As described in this piece in the Los Angeles Times, the race starts in the California town of Sierra Madre and climbs 2,100 feet to Orchard Camp, an oak-shaded spot halfway up the mountain that was a resort in the 1920’s.  The winner of the the first race, Joseph King of San Francisco,  finished in 1:25:30, and three years later, 9-year-old Edith Gray wowed crowds by running it in 1:51:50. For the past three years, runners have come in in under one hour.