Becky Gifford completed her first ultra recently, the McDonald Forest 50K. For those who don’t know, Becky is the wife of Jamie, 2005 H.U.R.T. 100 mile winner. Glenn Tachiyama took the following photo of Becky and Jamie. Congratulations to Becky on her accomplishment.
From John and PJ For those that don’t know “Marathon John”, he is a great friend to HURT. Before he left Hawaii 4-5 years ago, he did an enormous amount of work for our races, and contributed equipment that we still use in our races today. For instance, one year at the Schofeild 50 Miler,…
Nick Kaiser submitted a few more pictures from this past weekend’s run. These photo’s show some of the H.U.R.T. "character’s" at their finest! Click on the photo’s to enlarge them. Here’s race director’s Cheryl and Don, eating all the aid station food. In this photo (notice their expressions and body language), Ed and Don are…
Some of us H.U.R.T. participants lament the fact that the race is run during one of the darkest months in Hawaii–January. This means for most participants, almost 12 hours of darkness navigating through the jungles, using the brightest lighting system we can find. Well, I’ve come up with the perfect race for those who hate…
Aloha Athletes ! According to the runners, last Saturday’s "Run With a View" HURT Trail Series race was everything from "a really fun race" to "the most fun race that I’ve ever been in !" Thanks to all the hard working volunteers for the fine job ! The next race in the 2005 HURT Trail…
We had at least two photographers out at the race this past Saturday. Mike Garcia took a lot of shots at the finish line and Rex Vlcek got some nice shots out on the trail. These can all be seen on the blog under Photo Albums or by clicking here.
This past Saturday’s "Run with a View" was a great race. The complete results are available by clicking here. Hopefully later this week we will have a complete write-up and photo’s posted to the blog. Thanks to the directors, Don and Cheryl and their volunteers, for putting on a great race. Thanks to all the…
Just wanted to make sure you all are checking the Recent Comments section on the left side of the blog. Paul Sibley has posted a couple of them as he departs on his run in Spain.
I placed a new link under Ultra Links on the right hand side of the blog for Sam Musleh’s site: ultraBlog.us He has also placed a link for our blog on his site. Currently there is a good race report on his site from this past weekend’s Massanutten race writen by David Bursler.
As mentioned on the Ultra list, there was a great article in USA Today on ultra running. The article is focused around this past weekend’s Massanutten race, however it has some pretty good information about ultra running in general. Included is a mention about winner, Matthew Estes, and his troubles at the H.U.R.T. 100 in…
Alex Papadopoulos finished his first 100 mile race this past weekend at the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. His time was 31:37:30. Great job Alex! This race is held in the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. The race has a tough reputation for the rocky terrain. Alex lived in Hawaii over the last several months…
Just got back from running a reverse Triple Trek loop and was pleasantly surprised at how dry the trails are right now. Even in those areas that are usually wet and full of pig sh#t. Get out there and enjoy it!
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