March 21, Race Director Chris Scott is sending off 150 trail runners into the Los Padres National Forest. The 100 mile course has over 28,000 vertical climbing, sounds like a Wasatch 100 day! I am registered for the race but planned on not attending since my AC shoulder separation in January. But of course with only two weeks training under my belt, Coach Meltzer is ” promoting pain”. Karl asked me today, what do you have to lose? He’s right so I e-mailed Chris Scott and greased him with a couple Spaten Optimators to re align my finish time from 28 – 34 hours. I am probably more nervous to run my slowest 100 then I am when I am in shape! This Ultra has staggered starts so every one will finish with in a four hour window on Sunday, what a strategy!
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| Chris Scott, Chief Idiot |
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Optimators will do it every time. They’re greasy as could be.
I envy you on this one, Scott, even if you’re out there for 34 hours or more. Crunching the numbers, I couldn’t make this work–heck I could barely find Ojai on a map.
Good luck–and save a couple those bocks for yourself post-race. It’ll be spring by race day, after all. And, of course, bock means goat!
Yo Scottie, you’ll be mustard. You may surprise yourself with an epic run.
Don’t lean on a shoulder too much!
Have fun, and slow sometimes are fun too, when they are planned this way.
Wow – sounds like fun! Good luck, Scott. 2 weeks sounds like plenty of training!!
I’m curious to hear how the staggered start works out.
Good luck at 2 Moon. Looks like a beast of a course but a lot of fun. Staggered start and finsih time “window” is a pretty cool idea. Look forward to hearing how it goes.
The staggered start is interesting. I wonder how front runners feel having to negotiate around the slower folks when they catch up to them. And, likewise, I bet some of the slower folks might feel deflated having a lot of the faster runners scooting by them all day. Still, it seems it will give everyone more of a chance at hanging out together after the run. I’m looking forward to the feedback.