Wow, imagine lining up for the biggest event of your life and having it canceled 20k into the race due to a landslide in Italy..the mental let down and disappointment was unmeasurable.
As I entered the Saint-Gervais aid station (20k) there where runners everywhere on their phones standing around in the pouring rain? I went weaving through the runners to leave the aid station and was stopped to learn race over, time immediately slowed down as I stood there in the pouring rain stunned in disbelief. I began searching for my team mates Cory Johnson and Jodie Chase to figure out what was next, the dream was over.
So we picked our chins off the ground and took trains back to Chamonix to watch the CCC runners finish from a local pub. After several pints of beer with Cory and my crew who drove from Germany to help with the race, Gus and Lindsey, I received a text from my old team mate Bryon Powell (2:45 a.m.), make up race bus leaves for Coumayeur, Italy at 6:30 a.m. My first thought was I’m mentally spent, there is no way I can get myself back up for another race with two hours sleep and beer for breakfast. Despite the obvious I talked Cory to get out of bed put on our wet shoes and go try again.
So we go to Coumayeur to start the race and the TDS runners were there with fresher legs and a normal night sleep? In fact I didn’t even know how the long the race was at this point until Mike Wolfe (2nd place) told me were running the last part of the UTMB, a 100k. off we went, the first 20 miles really stunk and then my pole broke, so I sucked it up in the rain and mud pushed on with one pole and passed dozens of people all day to complete the toughest 100k run ever in 16.5 hours? It’s really hard to tell how well we did with two groups of runners all combined in one result..?
Anyways, game over.
Hats ofF to the UTMB Race Staff for pulling together the second race..I’ll be back !
Local runner Kevin Schilling hangs on for the win finishing just in front of Nick Clark to earn the Goat leg and $500.00 in cash! On the women side Keri Nelson dominated the nannies to win by over a half hour, nice run! The Wasatch Mountains were glad the see the Wasatch Speed Goats show up, Deb Pero, Monica Ochs, Mark Cosma, Cory Johnson, Tom Remkes and volunteers Sandy White, Dave Hunt..scrape on!
Men:
1. Kevin Schilling 5:43.20 Course Record
2. Nick Clark 5:46.38
3. Nick Pedatella 6:08.17
4. Luke Nelson 6:18.06
5. Karl Jarvis 6:26.14
Women:
1. Keri Nelson 6:10.11
Course Record
2. Becky Wheeler 6:40.09
3. Sarah Evans 7:23.46
4. Missy Miller 7:26.10
5. Suzanne Lewis 7:29.15
Full Results>>>
Tomorrow morning is the start of the toughest 100 trail race of all, the Hardrock 100.. Like many fellow trail runners I didn’t get in the race but was top ten on the waiting list..Good luck to all the runners and looking forward to watching fellow team mates Tom Remkes, Cory Johnson and Steve Pero trek their way through the San Jauns, scrape on! Looks like Granny Nannie Deb Pero got in the race, nice go get them Deb!
Karl, keep it upright and roll out another great Hardrock, #6 !!
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Jemez 50 miler, time to get serious as Zane Grey was a “off the couch 50 miler” training run. The Jemez 50 is chalk full of savvy veteran trail runners along with Assistant Director for the Wasatch Speed Goat’s Tim Barnes, look for Meltzer trekking with a hunk of cast on his right arm, will it slow him down?
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I haven’t been to Zane Grey in a few years and what a difference, the rocks are plentiful, the brush is overgrown and the ruts are deeper then ever. I’m all scratched up from my arms to my ankles, once I drew blood at mile 6 it never stopped. What a tough course to follow especially when it’s marked with yellow Montrail flagging tape, I bet everyone got lost at least once. Nice run Ian Torrence, Dave Hunt and Larry O’Neil who ran the course in his new moon sneakers.
Get well “Karl” who had a commanding lead until he broke his arm slipping over a dead tree..ouch.
Scratched up goat leg Broken front goat leg
I guess running 5 to 6 100’s a year just isn’t enough for Karl, here he is staging an attempt to run the entire Pony Express Trail from Missouri to California (1840 miles). The trail is celebrating it’s 150th anniversary so Karl teamed up wit Red Bull for the attempt, stay tuned for more details. Looks like after Tour Du Mont Blanc I’ll be putting together a couple long runs on the Pony Express!
Speedgoat 50k is filling up fast, sharpen your hooves for this one!
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