A race shorter than 100 miles?
This coming Saturday, I’ll test myself at the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase in Park City, Utah. This race is a whopping 16 miles with about 4000′ of elevation gain on prime PC singletrack. I’ve run it before in a little over 2 hours. I don’t plan on racing real hard, just trying to put in a good 16 miler over the weekend.
Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been running big miles with big vertical. For the locals here in SLC, that means running over the 11,326′ Pfieferhorn in Little Cottonwood Canyon and connecting Bells Canyon on the backside of Hogum Fork. I had a brief stop with 14 mountain goats on the ridge. Old Billie said he’s been watching me, and expects me to go for number 7 at the Wasatch 100 next month. We’ll see about that as the competition is pretty stiff with Mr. Western, ( Koerner ) Mr. HURT, ( Roes ) and Josh Brimhall from the sweltering land they call Vegas.
Over the weekend, along with the rave runs I’ve been doing, I went tubing on the Weber River. A day of relaxation floating down the river with a few beers, some cold water and only one capsizing of the tube!
Next week I plan on doing the Leadville odds if I can find the runners’ list. It’s been a tough search though, as it’s not listed on the website. If anyone out there has some inside info on getting the list, let me know so I can figure out who’s gonna run fast at the “Race across the sky“. Tony is the man to beat at the moment, but he’s the only guy I know that’ll challenge for the win. Tony should run away with it and possibly make a run at Matt Carpenters’ record!
Another cool race on tap for August 15th includes the El Vaquero Loco 25k and 50k in Star Valley, Wyoming. Ty Draney puts on a great show on some of the best singletrack in Idaho. The Teton races start a few weeks later, along with the Pikes Peak Marathon near the end of the month. Tune in to find results on these races and any other good ones I can find.
Off for a night run here in the Wasatch. A cold front is coming just in time to dump hail and lightning on us…….sounds like another fine day at the office!
Nice Map, everyone understand? Just follow the blue dots….they say!
