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March 18, 2024

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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 29.50 Year: 128.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 297.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 46.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
26.000.000.000.000.0026.00

AM- After 2 days in the mountains at a church youth retreat, it was time to run again.  It started raining Fri at noon and hadn't stopped when Cody showed up for the run at 10:30 am on Sat.  The plan was to run from Right Hand Fork of Logan Canyon backwards along the Bear 100 course- up Ricks Hollow, along some dirt road, then down Richards Hollow.  We tried to run up Richards Hollow on May 1 and only made it 1.5 miles to the waterfall due to snow- we wanted to make it all the way to our previous turnaround so we could say we had covered this whole portion.

It was cool and rainy when we started, and would stay this way most of the run, although there were long patches with no rain.  Thankfully, the rain was never too heavy, and we both commented numerous times on how nice the weather was, given it easily could have been miserable.  The entire way was muddy/puddly, sometimes very slick and goopy, but kind of fun. 

The run up Ricks was normal- I have run it many times, always up.  I felt sluggish and my stomach wasn't happy from all the food of the past 2 days.  But I felt better by the time we hit the road and a steady climb to a summit.  The 800 ft descent was muddy with lots of fallen trees to climb over.  We reached the Cowley Aid location, which was the muddiest of the whole run.  Then we climbed 800 ft up another road to another pass, with 2 ATV's and 2 dirt bikes passing us- the only people we would see all run.  

Just after the pass we turned onto Richards Hollow.  It was a glorious trail- that's really the only way I can describe it.  Most of the run was down a high-alpine, 20 to 50 meter wide meadow that had a stream meandering alongside, with multiple beaver dams along the way.  Probably one of the prettiest areas I have ever seen for a run- I would love to camp there for a while.  Just amazing, secluded, and beautiful.  The stream was quite high and we crossed it about a dozen times on the way down- I formed a dry crossing the first time by throwing in rocks, but we quickly discovered we would cross it many times- sometimes 4 times in 100 yards!  We eventually gave up on trying to keep our feet dry.  The bottom portions of the trail did get a bit steeper, but we eventually reached the waterfall, about 13 miles and 2:08 in.

The way back was quite enjoyable with no people the whole way.  We stopped a few times to enjoy some gorgeous overlooks.  It started raining harder near the end and the trail was particularly muddy and puddly, so I just ran clear through the mud.  Finished with a negative split of 2:05, followed by a wade into the creek, shoes and all.  4:13.  Garmin says 25.5 miles with 10,000 vertical, SportTracks says 25.9 miles with 7250 vertical, Bear 100 mileages say 25.9 miles with 7000 ft vertical.  I'll go with 26 miles and 7000 vertical.

Great run today- hard to beat a day like today with mild weather and great trails.  I hadn't planned on running Richards again, but I may have to mid-week sometime. 

XT Wings 3 Miles: 26.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jtshad on Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 08:00:24 from 69.20.183.178

Awesome run, sounds like fun!

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:26:34 from 174.51.250.151

sounds like an awesome run. Are you able to run that entire time or with that type of vertical over that distance are there points where you hike?

I'm trying to determine if I should try to run most of the time on my next 50K which only has 4500 ft of vert. I hiked a TON of my first one, but all of it was runnable stuff, if I were doing just segments and not the whole thing.

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