Registration opens December 23rd for the ultimate trail race!!
It’s time to cross the pond and run the ultimate trail race, Ultra-Trail Du Mount-Blanc. I’ve heard the stories from Meltzer and team mate Mike Mason describing the event, it sounds like my type of course with gnarly endless vertical. 2010 could shape up to be a fun year in Chamonix if the Wasatch Speedgoats can get in the race along with the mystery man?
Nice finish Krissy Moehl 2009 female champion - Ultra-Trail Du Mount-Blanc
As 2010 is just around the corner the Wasatch Speed Goat Mountain Racing Team enters it’s third year and has quickly become one of the most diversified and visible trail teams out there!!
This years line up of sponsors includes the very best products trail running has to offer. Long time sponsor Nathan Packs continues to provide hydration packs for the goats and First Endurance third year sponsor will be fueling the goats with the very best sports nutrition products available. Again top on line retailer Backcountry.com keeps the goats moving with their giant catalog of gear.
Returning sponsor La Sportiva has stepped it up and become a marquee sponsor 2010!
New for this year we would like to welcome Drymax socks the sweetest socks I have ever run in and hats off to Green Layer, they’ll be providing the goat skin!! Welcome back everyone’s favorite electrolyte tablet NUUN.
After 15 years of Ultra running my wife has seen it all, her friends at work have heard it all, so they handed her a hard copy of 110 savoy statements that “You know your and ulltrarunner if”.. I laughed my a** off knowing this applies to all my fellow trail runners. So each week I though I would share a few of these statements written by various authors.
- You spend more time in the drug section than the food section of the local market.
- You wonder why they don’t make all running socks a dusty brown color.
- You have more dirt on your shoes then your garden.
- You think that flagel and ibutrophin belong on the breakfast table.
- You get more phone calls at 5AM than at 5PM.
- You don’t recognize your friend with their clothes on.
- You have more buckles then belts.
- You postpone your wedding because it will interfere with your training.
- You keep mistaking your boss for Norm Klein.
- 6AM is sleeping in.
- Your feet look better with out toenails.
- Your ideal of a fun date is a 30-mile training run.
- You’re tempted to look for a bush when there’s a long line for the public restroom.
- You don’t think twice about eating food you’ve picked up off the floor.
- You can expound on the virtues of eating salt.
- You develop an unnatural fear of mountain lions.
If you enjoy self-inflicted abuse this is the race for you, 22,000 feet of combined verticle at beautiful Snowbird Ski Resort, the ultimate areana for a trail running event. Let your crew take the tram and watch you run the toughest 50k around. Registration opens January 1st!
Watch out
Here is a Mountain Lion Story
At around 7:15 this morning, my dog met a mountain lion in the brush on the connector trail between Queen Esther Drive and Snowtop. The cat was about 3 switchbacks up from the bottom, and was within 30 yards of me. I did not see the cat, but he and my dog had an altercation. The cat was growling and making high pitched cat screaming noises. They were LOUD; I have never heard anything quite like it. My dog was going nuts barking, and I was screaming as loud as I could trying to get him to come back to me. Between my dog barking, and me screaming, the cat must have decided to take off. I was able to get my dog to come back to me. I am so thankful he didn’t chase, and he is unhurt.
I looked on-line, and cats that are that close to humans are probably tracking. My dogs and I had made a lot of noise on both the way up to the top of Snowtop and back, and that cat was really close. I have two 100 lb dogs (one was on a leash), and so that may have been lucky for me. Someone alone or with a smaller dog may have been in trouble.
Wilderness guy said making a lot of noise is the best thing to do and keep the dogs on leash.
Here is the MAN of high altitude running, Matt has the highest Vo2 max ever recorded by a runner (above 90), higher than Lance Armstrong. I watched Matt float by me at Pikes Peak and the Fila races in Aspen Colorado years ago. I also lined up with Matt at the Leadville 100 as he took off to return over Hope Pass miles in front of the field. Amazing..
Follow this link and watch Matt’s interview with the New York Times……20 scpapes for Matt
I ‘d like to see Him and Kyle duke it out at Hardrock..
Wasatch Speed Goat Amy Sproston breaks the 7 hour barrier at the Guatemala 50 miler. Nothing like a little international flavor for the goats, hooves on the pavement? Ouch..
“50 miles on roads felt like 2 road marathons back to back. I hit mile 25 at 3:25, and managed to hang on and run the second half in 3:31 to finish 50 miles in 6:56, which was good for the overall win, and was 12 minutes faster than the previous (overall 
) course record. Was definitely an experience; I had the pleasure of being accompanied by 2 radio station mini-vans following me and blasting a mix of Latin pop and race updates.” A.S.
10 Scrapes for Amy, heal those hooves after that pavement…
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