The US National 100K Team has fielded teams at the World 100K Championships for well over 20 years competing in such locales as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Belgium, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Russia, and most recently, Gibraltar. We have brought home individual gold in the women’s race as well as team gold for the women. This past year in Gibraltar the men took the podium with the silver team medal. The team consistently places US men and women in the top 10 in the world and are seen as a very competitive team with the rest of the world’s countries. The US is represented by 6 men and 6 women who have met rigorous qualification requirements and then selected by representatives from the Mountain, Ultra, and Trail Sub-committee of the USATF. In 
addition to the athletes, the team is accompanied by a team leader, assistant team leader, and a team physician who are selected at the annual USATF conference. These three support positions wear multiple hats with the intent for the athlete to focus only on running.
The courses are varied depending on the host country. We have had 5K and 10K loops, out and back courses, and multiple irregular loop courses. The courses are run on paved roads some flat, some quite hilly. The intent in the 100K event is to get from the start to the finish as quickly as possible while at the same time understanding how to maintain proper nutrition to carry you efficiently and effectively over the 62 mile endurance run and to hold your body together. It’s often stated that a 100K race is actually two races; an 80K (50 miles) event and then the last 20K, where it comes down to the runners who have run the smartest races. History seems to have dictated that the leader at 50K seldom wins the race, as it behooves the runner to run cautiously and conservatively the first 50K – 70K.
Ths world event is a labeled a World Championship run under the patronage of the Internatonal Assocation of Ultrarunning.and under the iumbrella of the IAAF, the world governing body for track and field and long distance running.
