WasatchSpeedGoat Volunteers
SpeedGoat Terrain
Special thanks to everyone who spent the day on the hill with the runners!
One of the top three comments I heard was what great help at the aid stations!
Karl and I staffed each age station with professional ultrarunners who understand the needs of a runner during such a grueling course! We had Roch Horton and the Black Diamond crew manning Mt. Baldy and Roch himself making sure every runner left his aid station at the top of little cloud to the finish, plunge to the tram deck! At the top of the tram we had Jared Campbell (just broke 30 hours at Hardrock 07) and Larry O’neil. Down at the tunnel we had fellow Montrail Team mate Ken Jensen with Charlie Vincent and the Backcountry.com crew!
Special thanks to Mark Scholl and the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center for being there for the runners!
A SPECIAL THANKS TO WYNN DAVIS FOR THE TROPHIES!
Wynn Davis created our special trophies for the Innaugural race and deserves a big thanks from all of us who were able to participate last weekend. Without Wynn’s dedication to making these works of art, the “Goat Leg” and “Hooves” would have been alot harder to create, and a special thanks to Elwood the Goat for all his hoof growing power! Wynn will be racing here next year and will have a shot at taking home a goat leg of his own. - 10 Scrapes!
Nathan Packs were donated by Glenn at the Wasatch Running Center, go there to get the Nathan 20% discount!
The ultimate sponsor that allows trail running to be a spectator sport with that killer TRAM and course! Snowbird and John Collins!
Remember that ridge, the second climb!
If you feel good after running 24,000 vertical, it was the 80-90 servings of Ultragen that was consumed, thanks to Robert from First Endurance for helping with Goat recovery, bahaha!
Last but least thanks to Butch race director for the Wasatch Steeple Chase for running the timing system at the finsh line, suds for all Butch!
July 27th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
What a great run. Thanks so much to everyone for all the effort to put it together. Looking forward to next year already. Enjoy the runninig and I hope to see you on the trails
July 28th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Karl & Scott
Wanted to say thanks for a great run which also means it was a great day, I’m a little confused though I was first in the 50 to 59 male age group (aka old goats) but looking at the results there were two guys one 50 the other 57 with faster times than me. It will be painful but if I was 3rd instead of 1st I will return the Goat hoof trophy so it can be given to the rightful man. Let me know bahaha
July 28th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Karl & Scott
Wanted to say thanks for a great run which also means it was a great day, I’m a little confused though I was first in the 50 to 59 male age group but looking at the results there were two guys one 50 the other 57 with faster times than me. It will be painful but if I was 3rd instead of 1st I will return the Goat hoof trophy so it can be given to the rightful man. Let me know bahaha
July 28th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Will it be the same approximate date next year? decent chance i’ll be in utah around this date next summer… not sure i’ll be ready for such a tough race at that point but it sounds more like the type of race you can’t ever be completely ready for anyway.
July 30th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Hello Geoff, We are shooting for a the 26th of July, It wont be the 19th, We are running the Vermont 100. If it is not hte 26th, it will likely be the 2nd of August.
Brent, we will look into it, in the meantime, enjoy the hoof, just don’t give it to the dog! Later, Wahsatchspeedgoat
July 30th, 2007 at 11:36 am
If you were 3rd in your age bracket, did you get anything? I left before the awards. However, I was 3rd in the 30-39 bracket.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:35 am
2nd of august possibly? I like the sound of that.
karl, thanks for the tip about your preference for PowerGel. i’ve been trying that out a bit and i really like all the sodium… and it’s thin. goes down easy and comes out of a flask easy. still haven’t found a flavor i can stand the taste of but i guess that’s the way it goes.
also karl, do you know Andy Baker? he’s a friend of mine in utah who i remember telling me a few years ago (when i lived in utah) that he knew someone up at alta or snowbird who was a really badass ultra runner. It just dawned on me the other day that he was likely talking about you.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Yo Geoff, I do know Andy Baker, also good friends with Sean Hanka if that rings a bell. And Yes he was likely talking about me….we go way back. It’s a small world out there, time to go run around it! Baaaahhhhh
July 31st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
yeah, i know Sean Hanka. had the pleasure to meet him at Andy’s wedding a couple years ago. Certainly wish I had a chance to get to know him better because he seems like one crazy fun dude. is he still living down there south of moab?
and yeah, i’m penciling in july 26th on next summer’s racing calender.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Haven’t spoken with Hanka in quite a while, as you might expect, he shows up randomly. He could be in Moab, The Gorge at Hood River, or even New Zealand. I am sure I will see him one of these days. -later, Karl