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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:44 PM Subject: Incline Club V4 TH #19 LR #38 Howdy ICerss! I don’t want to type too much out of fear of making another “S” missstake (Sssee lassst week) but I did want to give you the headsss up on a couple of thingssss. The Incline Club party isss jussst around the corner:-) Mark your calendarsss now for Thursssday, Augussst the 24th in PLACE of the regular Incline Club run!!! More detailsss to follow. Check the workout board to sssee if you are clossse to 25 workouts to get a club award. However, ANYONE is welcome to come to the party and you are welcome to bring sssomeone even if they are not a runner. #### Yesterday Thursday, August 10, 5:30 p.m. we met at Soda Springs Park. Warm-up to Hydro Street. 30 minutes of 1 minute hard, 1 minute walk from Hydro Street up the Barr Trail. Easy run back down and then Hydro Street hill repeats. Cool down back to park. We did the offs as a walk this time so we do not try to get farther up the trail. Now is not the time to be going for PRs!!! Time to start the taper! Sunday, August 13, 7 a.m. meet just past the Pikes Peak Toll Booth. Car pool to the top and do just the top mile or so and then do some trail work to spend some time in the thin air. Thursday, August 17, 5:30 p.m. meet at ***Memorial Park***. Pace run to Hydro Street from the start of the PPA/M. Easy back to park. Discussion of race strategies. #### Neat T writes: I ran the Mt. Rushmore 100 miler last Sat, Sun (Jul 29,30). I will summarize some of the factoids that people have been interested in. My time was 27hrs 13mins. I was 3rd overall, 2nd male. I had a very bad section between 45 — 65 miles. I then recovered and had a good finish. 19,000+ ft. climb and 20,000+ ft. decent. As compared to Leadville’s 15,000+ ascent/decent. 36 hour cutoff, four people made it under 30 hours. Out of the top six, four were women! Eric Clifton won somewhere in the 20hrs range. Course record by about four hours. There were about 40 starters and I am guessing at about 30 finishers. The temp hovered at 90 all day, high 60 at night. Footing was terrible. It was always hilly — my guess it that there was maybe five miles of somewhat flat terrain. As only running sicko’s can understand... It was a great challenge and I look forward to running it again :-) Race motto, from my perspective: Run uphill... when it hurts... run uphill some more... then run downhill, that got to be even worse! #### Incline Club members were all over the peak on Sunday for the Barr Trail Mountain Race — both as runners and volunteers! Jim L & Pat W (Ws), Neal T & Teresa T (No Name), Hans Z & Bonnie M (7.8), Tom K & Steve S (Barr Camp) did the dirty work of taking splits! Out of 1016 possible splits they got 997 of them which is amazing when you consider that many times we don’t keep our bib #s in plain view! Lynn H and Gary H were taking bib#s and times at the finish line as backup to the computer systems. Laura L was making sure we came back down Ruxton and not the “real” Barr Trail. Annemarie W and her purple cast were at the finish line. Brian K came through with 10 X 5 gal containers for water. Incline Club members also made some very generous donations to the race too including Pat D (two 1-night stays at his B&B), Ben C (Haircut), Mike L ($100 in certs to his store), Lynn & Gary H ($500 for the aid station challenge), Neal and Teresa T (did our printing and made the cool hats), Jack R (two $25 certs to his store). Not to mention the many ICers who were on the race committee: Lynn & Gary H (yet again), Paul S, Marti C, Cindy O, John O, Yvonne C, Nancy H, Larry M (race director) and Doug L. I won’t even pretend that I did not forget someone but they were just as important. Then there were the runners! I still need to make the list but the IC club was there in force. Bottom line, from all the feedback from over 230 surveys, the race was one of the best the area has seen in a long, long time — survey words not mine! Areas raved about included community support (the race gave away almost $10,000 with only a 300 runner limit) runner support (packets, prize drawings and aid stations) and level of competition. It was unreal the great comments we got on the aid stations! How many races can you say you got laid in! (Not sure how you spell the Hawaiian term for what the Incline Aid Station put around some runner’s necks but for their efforts they earned an easy $1,000) I want to thank all of you that took part as either a volunteer, contributor or runner. Though not billed as such, this was truly an “incline Club” run! It is all the names you read above (and again any I forgot) who came together and pulled this off. #### One of the goals of the race was to be a tune-up for the Ascent and Marathon so head over to http://www.runpikespeak.com/results/results.htm to see all of your split times from the race and make some plans for your upcoming peak race(s). There is little training to be done from here on out! It is just a matter of executing:-) Sit down and look at your training logs and come up with some realistic goals to shoot for and I am sure we will see some great times! #### www posts (yes it is almost caught up;-) 8/3/2000 38 People did a short 5-8 minute pace run starting in front of the COG depot. The goal was to get some split times so that during the Barr Trail Mountain Race they will know real quick if they are going out too fast. We had a good group discussion on strategies for the various races coming up. The hay is in the barn - time to execute! 7/30/2000 48 of us swarmed all over the peak from all sorts of directions. Once again Elk Park trail was the most popular place to start from. 10 of us collected massive amounts of trash off of the top section. We also removed 5 rail road ties than were sliding down the mountain. 7/27/2000 40 people showed for a 30 minute tempo run up the Barr Trail. Some worked on their down hills a little after they turned around. Hydro Street rounded out the day with 10 repeats. #### Go out hard, when it hurts speed up... Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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