Inside the mind of the woman who built America’s 200-mile races

In a world where running extreme distances seems more normal by the day, the creator of the Triple Crown of 200s, Candice Burt can be credited for a lot of that feeling

If running is booming, ultrarunning is going supernova. The Triple Crown of 200-mile races, for instance, was created in 2017, and keeps extreme trail distances in the general running conversation the same way the Marathon Majors does for road races.

The person responsible for dreaming up a series of events that costs thousands of dollars and months of t…