Greetings Athletes, Yesterday I participated in the second annual Tough as Granite Trail Half-Marathon in Granite Bay, California near Auburn, CA. Since AC 100 was cancelled I wanted to find another trail race on the same weekend and this was the only one. The info on the website said that it would be scenic and…
Bob sent me some photos to post and said he is working on a race report. He mentioned something about being swamped at work and it might be a week or so until he gets the report done. ??? In any case, we look forward to reading your report Bob. Congratulations on finishing another tough…
This weekend while some of us are taking it easy–or maybe not, three H.U.R.T. runners are at the races running 100 miles. Actually we have heard from Bob Murphy via Rex V. that he has finished Superior in 35 hours and some change. Superior has a 38 hour cut-off. According to Rex, Bob said Superior…
Following on Bob M's post, the UTMB thing is a lot of fun. I did the CCC variant, which runs from Courmayeur in Italy, via Champex in Switzerland to Chamonix in France. The part in the day runs takes you along the southern edge of val Ferret with amazing views north across the valley of…
My race report follows. Warning – It is long. Western States 2009 – Unexplored Resilience Western States 2009 was epic. Not because I had the race of my life (I didn’t) and not because I reached some higher consciousness (just a little confusion and inability to think); but because I went to new places with…
Here is a nice article on the Women's Western States 100 winner, Anita Ortiz. This is from the Vail Daily. http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090628/SPORTS/906289981/1063 Here is another article from TrailRunningSoul.comhttp://tinyurl.com/lhzmbt
Congratulations to our Hawaii H.U.R.T. runners. We can't wait to hear the stories that go with these results. Gil Loomis: 27:33Marian Yasuda: 28:19Ernest Tay: 28:33Stephanie Jenkins had to drop. From what I have heard, she went up there and started the race knowing she had some on going injuries but still toed the line. Courageous…
Does anyone have any information on the results of this year's Western States 100? I signed up on their webcast for e-mails but never received anything about the race or the Hawaii runners. Their webcast site didn't work at all this weekend. Bummer. Aloha, Ed B.
After reading Rex and Bob's great race reports, I didn't think I had much to contribute, but I've been getting pressure to put some thoughts down. It took me a while, but here it goes. About the time of HURT 100 in January, Bob and Rex told me about their plans to run Kettle Moraine…
Judy looked so strong and I knew she would have a great run. She kept saying that she may decide to run with us, but I kept telling her to take off and that I would stay with Rex. She ran her fastest 100 ever – super! Rex was awesome – honest! He was…
There I was wrestling the ferocious Dogbear to the ground; “save yourself” I told Bob, if I don’t catch up with you, tell them that I would have finished this time. Ok it wasn’t quite like that. But, as we were working our way toward the Rice Lake 81.5mile turn around, before the lip incident,…
Brutally tough!! But oh so much fun. We climbed and climbed and climbed. I remember on the last real climb up to 3000 ft I thought I was lost and then a 50 mile guy passed me by and I said thanks I thought I was lost and he said onI think on this course…
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