Comments on: Western States 100 is back in action, and it’ll be a heater!

By: karlmeltzer

karlmeltzer — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:24:31 +0000

Ian, alot of folks have mentioned that to me, cuz’ one of the qualifiers is Pinhoti. I won’t qualify at Steamboat. We’ll see, I will say I don’t feel it’ll be my focus on next year,, but we’ll see. It is good to see the WS board finally putting in some 100s, but I would rather see them list 10 100s, and only the winner gets in.

By: Ian Sharman

Ian Sharman — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:11:28 +0000

So will we see you at WS next year, Karl, now there are 2 100-mile qualifiers?

By: Andy Mc Breen

Andy Mc Breen — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:47:36 +0000

wow,
Amazing run by all Who started and finished. What about all those courageous souls towards the back and very last finisher???? Congratulations to Ellie Greenwood, Tim Olsen and Dave Mackey for wonderful record breaking performances!!!!!

By: Hardcort

Hardcort — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:02:11 +0000

Cool temps for sure. If Wardian can handle the canyons, he might come through. Mackey alsoon the cool temps. Jez Bragg, Kaburaki too.

By: footfeathers

footfeathers — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:00:40 +0000

Bowman and Zeke Tiernan will be strong in the cooler temps.

By: Tropical John

Tropical John — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:51:35 +0000

Amy Sproston will defintely be top 5. She killed it at Hellgate on rough trails and then showed her speed winning the World 100K on the roads. Plus, she has run WS before and knows what it’s about. And it’s not going to be hot – only low 70s – favoring cooler climate runners with speed.

By: Gary Vale

Gary Vale — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:32:06 +0000

Amy Sproston just won the 100k world championships and she was 8th last year. She will improbe on that for sure!

By: Don Lundell

Don Lundell — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:21 +0000

Unless there’s a dramatic change in the forecast (unlikely), it’s going to be an unusually cool year. The NWS’s forecast high for Saturday, in Auburn, is 73 degrees. (A hot WS would have Auburn over 100.). From the NWS forecast discussion today: “ONE THING THAT DOES LOOK CERTAIN IS MUCH COOLER
TEMPERATURES INTO NEXT WEEKEND…AS MUCH AS 5-10 DEGREES BELOW
NORMAL.”

(AJW, are you out there? I feel for you.)

Don

By: Michael Gildea

Michael Gildea — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:22:00 +0000

Ian Sharman is definitely someone to watch. Thanks for giving props to the east coast runners. Mike Wardian if he is feeling good can run with anyone. Aliza Lapierre looked really strong at Bull Run

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 04:57:40 +0000

Mike Wolfe is hungry after last year’s 2nd place finish to Killian…he’ll win by no less than 20 minutes if he’s feeling it