Grand Slammer Gary Knipling
Last winter 62 year old Gary Knipling from Virginia saw my name on the 2005 Massanutten 100 list, when Gary came to Utah skiing he tracked me down at Deer Valley Ski Resort. I decided to pick Gary up and go to Karl Meltzer’s house in Salt Lake, Karl and I wanted to take a run on snow packed trails and show Gary our mascot the Rocky Mountain Goat. Sure enough after a steady climb from Karl’s house with in one hour we were looking at the goats on the ridge. Ba ha ha! It turns out the modest Gary not only ran Massanutten 100 in Virginia, but he also showed up at the Wasatch 100 in Utah to complete the prestigious Grand Slam(4-100 milers in one season) with his son Keith. Congratulations to Gary, my 60+ ultrarunning hero! Oh ya, I had a shot of Knob Creek Whiskey with Gary after we finished the Wasatch 100. Yuk!
WASATCHSPEEDGOAT-SM
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Gary is a bad ass!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Gary is da man! Da Knob Creek and mango panties man!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am
The big question is, why does Gary run with girl’s pantie’s? He flashed me a pair of pink g-strings at the Massanutten 100.
What does Gary do with those panties on his long lonely sections through the woods? Maybe they become a hat?
WSG
January 28th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Steve P is right. Gary is da Knob Creek, da mango panties man, da Eagle Run man. At least 22 eagles were spotted on Mason Neck in VA today by runners and walkers completing anywhere between 10 and 27 milesat gary’s annual Eagle Run………………Gary is da man and we’ll see him pounding the rocks again at MMT in May.