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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:17 PM Subject: Incline Club V4 TH #6 LR #25 Can you believe the size of the groups the last couple of runs? 52 on Thursday was incredible!!! Check out the www posts at the end of this mail for the number of people who improved their Incline times for the year. Sunday it was neat to hear so many talking about PRs to Barr Camp -- AWESOME! #### Thursday, May 11, 5:30 p.m. meet at Soda Springs Park. Warm-up to Hydro Street. 30 minutes of 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy from Hydro Street up the Barr Trail. Easy run back down and then 4-6 Hydro Street hill repeats. Cool down back to park. Sunday, May 14, 8 a.m. meet at Soda Springs Park. Run out the Ute Indian Trail and then cross Hwy 24 and do the Waldo Canyon lollipop loop clockwise. Cross back over Hwy 24 (be careful) and head up Longs Ranch which connects back into the Barr Trail at No Name Creek. Run down the Barr Trail to finish the loop. 2.5-3.5 hours. Newbies skip Waldo and head up Longs Ranch Road. #### Incline Clubber writes: Looking for house sitter for memorial day weekend (Thursday — Tuesday). Also looking for a roommate, $350/month incl. utilities, own room, bathroom... female, non smoking, likes animals. Furnished. If interested, send email to Matt and he will forward your mail to me. #### Bruce D writes: Just wanted to thank you for the opportunity to run with a group this morning. Most of my training is alone. I do enjoy running trails, although my first love is the roads. Well, I’d be well paid in major league baseball if my batting average was similar to my average on the Barr Trail this year. Three runs to Barr Camp and three falls plus one near fall after rolling my ankle! Oh yes, I also fell in the Garden of the Gods earlier after one of those slippery snow storms. Not bad for a guy who has previously fallen twice in a 32 year running career! I must apologize for my rather surly mood after this morning’s run, especially to the female runner who stopped briefly just above Ruxton Ave. on the way down. She was trying to make sure I was OK after turning that left ankle, but I was in no mood to be particularly gracious. Seeing as you probably know who this female runner is, would you kindly pass my apology to her? Seems I made three mistakes today. Wore some New Balance wear-test shoes that fit rather loosely. Then I was tired from a strong 18 miles the day before leading to slightly rubbery legs from the start. Finally, I ran too hard an effort, all things considered, to hang on to you guys. Moving my family down to the Springs from Fort Collins doesn’t help the arms, shoulders and general energy level any either. In the end, the loose trail gravel got me twice on the descent. So, that is my poor-me story for today. Back to training on the roads of the Garden after the ankle heals up, hopefully in a couple or three days. The injury appears to be completely external to the ankle/foot bones. The repercussions from the fall are inconsequential. I’ll be back to take my chances again on that trail — the challenge being foremost to make a clean ascent/descent! Best of training to you and all the Incline folk. #### Lots of people doing lots of races. These are the reports I got: Collegiate Peaks Trail Run 25 & 50 Mile Incline Club Finishers: 25 Miler Rick H 3:27 Laura L 3:58 Anita B 5:37 Dave S 6:10 50 Miler Tom K 9:30 (waiting on report — hint hint) ---- Bob McAndrews had a great race in Louiville at the Kentucky Derby Half Marathon. He ran 1:26:38 (6:35 per mile). He won his age division and the time is one of the best in the country for 60+ even with several miles of hills. ---- Neal and Teresa T ran a race and word is Teresa won and set a record. I am still waiting on details of that awesome effort. (hint hint) ---- Grand Prix 5 mile (I am sure I missed more than a few — please let me know) Females Bev Zimmerman won the race!!! 30-34 Marilyn T 2nd 35-39 Judy D 9th Lynn H and baby 17th 40-44 Cate T 2nd Males 25-29 John G 3rd 30-34 Dan V 1st (3rd overall) Paul D 3rd 35-39 Craig W 1st Thom S 2nd Tim A 5th 40-44 Anthony S 1st Mike L 3rd Keith G 9th 45-49 Joe C 6th 55-59 Ben C 1st 60-98 Bob M 2nd 5K Steve B 3rd overall ---- Don Ross won his age-group (55-59) at the Cherry Creek Sneak 5 mile with a time of 29:46 (5:58 mile pace) ---- And the biggie!!! Kelly Mortenson ran a smart Olympic Trials race to end up 12th overall! Kelly, for those that do not remember, often did his winter base work with the club before hitting the roads in the summer. In 1998 he did 19 Sunday runs with us. Last year he ran with us 14 Sundays and this year 9 Sundays before he moved back to Minnesota. Kelly said he was in about 70th place at 5 miles!!! Here is an article on his race: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/outdoors/rec_docs/037422.htm Incidentally, two other runners who have run with the club were in the Trials. Teddy Mitchell who ran with us on a number of Thursdays last year got 10th overall and Scott Gall who visited us once this year got 59th. 7 Colorado runners were in the top 15!!!! Word is that Scott will be running with the club a lot now that the trials are over. #### Richard D has been running some of our runs with his GPS. About a week ago the US government stopped sending out a fudge factor in the signals so they are much more accurate now. I will work on posting some maps of our runs as they are truly incredible! #### Sign-ups for the Barr Trail Mountain Race are going well — thanks to those of you who have already registered! http://www.runpikespeak.com #### www posts: 5/7/2000 42 enjoyed perfect weather for a trip up the Barr Trail. ALL the snow is gone to Barr Camp and there were only a few patches of snow to step on getting to the Bottomless Pit sign. After that the snow gets pretty bad. Still, this is WAY ahead of last year! Many Incline Clubbers were talking about their PR runs to Barr Camp today - all the sick training in the winter is starting to pay off big time. Incline Club member Kelly Mortenson ran a great race and got 12th in the Olympic Trials today. Kelly had done 9 runs with us this season before he moved back to Minnesota. 5/4/2000 How do you spell RECORDS - Thursdays on the Incline! 52 people came out today smashing the old club record by 5! Next, out of the 27 people who did the Incline last month 20 set year PRs Today. Valerie P also set an all-time PR. Ben C won the handicap race to the top with a 2:30 PR but John C was only 2 seconds back with a 2:28 PR. Keith G and Kees G tied for 3rd with 1:13 PRs. In the > 35:00 slot 11 year-old Dave G knocked of an incredible 9:40!!! Kim G -5:04, Mary H -2:23 and Anita B -2:19 also set some awesome PRs! To be honest I don’t know how anybody set a PR on this 85 degree scorcher of a day! #### Go out hard, when it hurts speed up... Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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