Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Time to eat!

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Speedgoat Karl
on November 25, 2009
in Race Updates, Speedgoat 50K and Uncategorized
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With the big turkey day upon us, think about running far today. 

Coming next week is the North Face 50 odds!  This should definately be a hot race to follow.  Hopefully, I’ll have some connection in Cali to get me the results.  I’m working on that.  With $10,000 on the line for the winner, it’s sure to be fast.  The Men’s and Women’s races will both be tigth, right from the start.

The Speedgoat 50k online registration will begin on January 1st, 2010.  We’re still hoping to get 200 runners in this crazy race.  11,000′ of climb is all I should need to say to get 200 of you here.  Trust me, it’ll entertain you!   Watch the video here, let us entice you a little bit. 

On my own end of things, I’ve found it entertaining to flip through a few blogs and read about the Western States Track Meet Lottery, coming Dec. 5.  I’m sure there will be plenty of discussion after a few fast guys and gals miss out, so I’ll leave that for another date and put it on the backburner for now.

The Chimera 100 mile is rapidly approaching, and rapidly closing, so if one more 100 is in the cards for you, this is the last 100 mile trail race of the decade.  But that has no significance. :-)  I’ll be looking for win #6 this year.  I still have the textbook in the back pocket, so I should at least run a decent race…..but we’ll see.  

“100 miles is not that far”

 

JFK 50 was a fast one!

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Speedgoat Karl
on November 22, 2009
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Devon Crosby-Helms killed it for the women, breaking Ann Lundlbad’s record by a scant 21 seconds!!!
She must have been thinking about that for the last 10 miles!
  1 Gregory Crowther    36   1/212  M SEATTLE      5:50:13  7:01 
  2 Michael Arnstein    32   2/212  M NEW YORK      5:50:58  7:02 
  3 Matt Woods          30   3/212  M FALLS CHUR    5:54:10  7:05 
  4 Hal Koerner         33   4/212  M ASHLAND       6:05:02  7:19 
  5 Chad Ricklefs       42   1/298  M BOULDER       6:06:51  7:21 
  6 Matthew Lavine      35   5/212  M CRYSTAL LA   6:08:17  7:22 
  7 Oz Pearlman         37   6/212  M NEW YORK     6:09:39  7:24 
  8 Ben Ingram          32   7/212  M BALTIMORE    6:21:45  7:39 
  9 Jon Lawler          46   2/298  M KNOXVILLE     6:24:20  7:42 
 10 Devon Crosby-Helms  27   1/37   F SAUSALITO     6:29:21  7:48 
 11 Scott Jurek         36   8/212  M SEATTLE       6:31:12  7:50 
 12 Josh Brimhall       34   9/212  M HENDERSON     6:32:13  7:51 
 13 Andrew Mason        37  10/212  M HAGERSTOWN    6:34:36  7:54 
 14 David James         31  11/212  M SOMERS        6:36:00  7:56 
 15 Blake Benke         33  12/212  M DANBURY       6:43:28  8:05 
 16 Timothy Smith       38  13/212  M GLENELG       6:44:08  8:05 
 17 Kyle Cashin         39  14/212  M WESTLAW       6:44:55  8:06 
 18 Vladimir Banas      40   3/298  M MOUNT AIRY    6:46:22  8:08 
 19 Jeffry Buechler     35  15/212  M PORTLAND           6:47:40  8:10 
 20 Ian Torrence        37  16/212  M ASHLAND       6:48:14  8:10
Obviously a great race up front.  Eric Clifton’s record remains intact…..barely. 
Rogue Valley Runners appear to have won the “team” title with 4 of 5 runners in the top 20.  Eric Clifton was the #5 man finishing in 8:12…..a few beers behind teammates Koerner, Jurek, Brimhall and Torrence. 
Devon Crosby-Helms appears to have smoked the women with a stellar 6:29, Meghan Arboghast ran well too, finishing in 6:56.  Annette Bednosky is back to old form running 7:02 for third.  
 

I guess I’ll run another 100

Published
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Speedgoat Karl
on November 18, 2009
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Well, the plan was to run the North Face 50 in San Francisco.  Due to a weak webpage and updated runners list,  I didn’t get the invitation or money in, in time.  So I bagged it.  I don’t feel I am qualified to compete for the $$ anyway, so I decided I’d go run another 100 miles to get rid of this nagging periformis issue I’ve been having.   The one thing I’ll be missing is chasing the front of the women’s race in the Marin Headlands…..not to mention the original plan was to go visit some good friends in Ashland before the race.  That’ll have to wait for another road trip.

So another 100?  Why not?  I feel fine, other than the periformis.  The periformis hurt before the Pinhoti 100 two weeks ago, only to go numb by mile 40. It stayed numb until the following Wednesday. Funny how running a 100 miles for me gets rid of injuries instead of creating them.  I am truly a freak sometimes. 

The Chimera 100 is the race, it boasts 24,000′ of climb.  I figured that sounds like another 20 hours of fine trail running in California.  It also gives me a chance to win at 100 miles for a 6th time this year.  NO, I’m not cherrypicking races, (if anyone out there thinks I am) I’m running this one cuz’ I have nothing better to do that weekend and it looks like a fun course.  Unfortunately on the competition side, most of the faster guys will be in San Fran the week before.   The beauty of it is I get to run all day supported, they only get to run 7-8 hours.  So I win! :-)    Funny how my brain thinks that way. :-)

The Speedgoat 50k is rapidly approaching the opening of registration, that’ll be on January 1st.  Sign up early and commit this time, or take the risk and sign up later.  Either way, it’ll be a fun day at Snowbird Ski Resort running on one of the most beautiful courses this planet has to offer.  Check out the video of the race here.   Some day when my site takes a u-tube video, I’ll have it here to view.  At least the link works! 

Backcountry.com is constantly having sales these days, with coupon codes, deals and motivation to get the gear we need.  Click the goatman on the right hand corner above and check out this week’s specials.

Also, the JFK 50 mile is happening Saturday.  It should be a great race to follow.  Team Rogue Valley Runners are looking to win yet another team title with Ian Torrence leading the way with the most JFK finishes.  His team consists of Hal Koerner, Josh Brimhall, Scott Jurek, CR holder Eric Clifton, and Ian himself.   The dream team is set.  Enjoy!  I”m goin’ runnin’

Oh the Pinhoti Trail!

Published
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Speedgoat Karl
on November 5, 2009
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This weekend I’ll be at the Pinhoti Trail 100 down in Alabama.  Roch Horton are running for team Utah.  My wife Cheryl will be crewing, keeping us efficient throughout.  It should be a pretty good race with about 5 of us thinking about winning the thing.   I have some periformis issues, but hope for that to get numb by mile 40 so I can start running.  It’s been a little shifty after a short 5 mile run about a week ago.  But I’m not gonna sandbag….I know I’m the favorite. :-)

Also check out the Mountain Masochist 50 mile in Virginia this weekend as the field seems to be real competitive.  Through the grapevine (but not confirmed) Geoff Roes, Anton Krupicka, and Valmir Nunes should be on the list.  Jasper Halekas should also give these three some problems.  I was gonna do odds, but because these three aren’t on the runners list, I decided to bag it and think about Alabama.   If I were to pick anyone, I’d pick Anton, then Geoff right behind.  Valmir is probably the fastest guy in there, but his trail experience is nothing compared to Anton, Geoff and  Jasper.  We’ll see if Mr. Badwater can hang with some trail junkies.  

Gotta go, cuz’ I got a flight to catch.

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