105′……….Lets do the math! Ultracentric 24hr Over the course of 24 hours Connie Gardiner could not muster up 53″ an hour to capture the US women’s 24 hour record. Man was that close! Nonetheless a stellar effort racking up 145.26 miles and taking home a whopping $4000 first prize*. Akos Konya stayed few inches per hour ahead, outdistancing Connie by less than a mile at 146.33. Good Stuff!
Next up, the North Face Challenge in San Fran! Thought $4000 was a solid winning prize? $10,000 is on the line for the winner here. Second takes home nadda (in terms of cash). I pick Carpenter to finish off his money winning season!
WaHsatchspeedgoat
Uli will give him a run for his money i bet, but i think carpenter will take home the pile of cash.
Yes, that was pretty amazing from Connie Gardner. I read on Scott Dunlap’s blog (http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2007/11/akos-konya-connie-gardner-win.html) that Connie was actually told she had the record, so she stopped with 10 seconds to spare. Ouch!
Pete
Karl,
Are you going to run the TNF challenge? I know you are a big supporter of prize money in the sport. Was wondering if you were going to support the event? Hope to see you out there!
Rod Bien
Bend, OR
Yes Rod, I am a big supporter of prize money in races, however, since there rarely is prize money for me to win at 100′s I have no money to get me to San Fran, you got some extra? Wish I could be there! I do certainly support the event and hope it’s a sprint to the finish, hopefully someone will at least U tube it.
What a battle it will be. However sometimes we get stuck in our little ultra niche. Ya never know if some darkhorse elite marathon dude, or fast runner who doesn’t run ultras, but can blitz the distance could show up and burn everyone since there is a decent pot at the end of the rainbow.
However Uli and Matt are fast and will be dog fightin’ till the end, or one will blow up.
Hell if I was one of a number of sub 2:30 marathoners or 2:20 marathoner looking for some dividends to patch a middle of the pack showing at the Oly.Trials last month. Just a thought
Hey Folks –
I’m here at The North Face and we’re gearing up for the big event this Saturday. I’m super jazzed to see all the top talent making the trip … Karl, I wish you could get here. I noticed that E Skaggs was in the Bay over the weekend to win the Quad Dipsea … maybe Kyle will hang around and take a shot at the Endurance Challenge.
I’ve posted the 50-mile entrant list down below — updated as of this morning. How about the Speedgoat laying down odds — or trying to spot the dark horses?
Michelle Barton
Rory Bosio
Mark Bowen
william brand
Richard Brass
Donato Cabal
Patrick Callahan
Alex Cardenas
Matt Carpenter
John Collins
Louise Cooper
Charles Corfield
Robert Cowan
Chris Crayner
Devon Crosby-Helms
Ofie Cruz
KELLY CUMMINS
Ed Diffendal
mark donaldson
David Dowd
Anthony Dunnigan
Susie Dyck
Eric Edelson
eric Edelson
Jason Edwards
William Emerson
Jun Funaki
Karl Gilpin
tracey gold
Charles Graver
Laura Guest
Ron Gutierrez
Lennard Hachmann
Sean Harrington
Fumitaka Hatanaka
Elizabeth Hawker
Tricia Hernandez
David Hodges
Jochen Horn
Rachael Hutchins
Alfatah Kader
Phil Kochik
Hal Koerner
Joe Kulak
Christopher Lanzafame
Will Laughlin
Scott Lennox
Gustavo Leone
Jean-Bernard LOUVET
Rob Lyle
Ernesto Matal Sol
Asaf Matatyaou
Heather McCord
Guillermo Medina
Michael Mey
Sally Meyerhoff
Sandra Miller
Joe Mitchell
Mieko Morita
Justine Morrison
Brian Myers
Taylor Neal
Andrew Nguyen
Elliott Otto
Chantelle Pabros
Oliver Parker
Van Phan
Daniel Piper
Mauricio Puerto
Paul Saladino
Jose Santana
Leigh Schmitt
Mark Seaburg
Kami Semick
Jenn Shelton
Liz Shy
Caren Spore
Uli Steidl
Ronald Stowers
PAUL SULLIVAN
Marty Thomas
Robert Thurmond
Jim Truitt
diane van deren
Matt Voltoline
Lawson Willard
kathy Winkler
John Wood
Brian Wyatt
John Wysong
in response to wynn: uli is an elite marathoner (12th at boston this yr and a 2:13pr i think) and an elite trail runner he just won the usatf regional club cross country meet and has the course record at the white river 50 miler which has been the uastf trail 50 mile championship for about the last 5 years. some roadie isn’t going to come and sneek up on uli he can do it both on the the trail and on the road. however i’m not ruling out any of the top trail runners on the list like carpenter, koerner, kochick, kulak, medina or even ol’ emerson.
i’d be highly surprised if either of the skaggs brothers ran it. they drove back to ashland saturday afternoon–after erik has narrowly missed breaking carl anderson’s previously untouchable record. kyle has his sites set on next year not this weekend. it’s too bad though kyle and erik are in my opinion the two runners to be most feared in the ultra world these days– not becasue of what they’ve run so far but because they’re just getting started and who knows what they’re capable of!
other than those two in my dream north face race i’s also like to see jurek, meltzer, mackey, wolfe, bien, pacheco, krupicka and halekas added to the already top notch line up.
Carpenter wins by 10 minutes over Ulli Steidl, Making it worth $1000 a minute. Steidl will hang with Matt until the hills wear him down, Carpenter will just keep flying. So here it is,
Carpenter 3-2, vo2max…93
Steidl 5-1, the gazelle
Schmitt (Darkhorse from Vermont) 8-1
Kochik and Koerner 9-1, duke it out for 4th
Medina, Morrison, Emerson mop up the rest 5-7
A few mystery men to ruin my predictions
Then the women come in:
Semick 4-1, best experience on these trails
Devon Crosby-Helms 7-1, fast, unknown to many
Jenn Shelton and Caren Spore, 12-1 fight for top 3
A few mystery women to ruin my predictions
Enjoy the Show!
I’ver betting on Carpenter by 10+ minutes and Lizzy Hawker by 40 minutes…
Hey Guys –
A quick update. Uli Steidl beat out Carpenter. The two of them waged an epic battle up to mile 44 at which point Carpenter reportedly said something like, “You’re tough, I think I’m done.” Uli ran roughly 6:58 on a course that climbed about 11,000 feet. Carpenter second. Leigh Schmitt third. Steve Towers fourth. Rod Bien (YEAH!) fifth.
Lizzy Hawker bounced back from jetlag and a nasty fall in the early darkness to win. Afterward, she was carted to the hospital to have her knee looked at (she’s OK). Bev Anderson-Abbs, a late entry, was number Two. Jenn Shelton skipped, hooted, and hollers in her own colorful way across for third place.
Hope all are having a good weekend.
(Garett Graubins)
My memory served me wrong. Jenn Shelton seemingly edged out Bev. Here are the results:
http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?rsID=50359