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Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Party! PPA/M/Leadville R reports batch #1
Just a reminder that the 6th annual Incline Club party is tonight at 5:30pm at the Mansions Park behind the Manitou City Hall. Despite raising the requirement for the IC award to 35 workouts 45 people still made the cut-off:-) It is sprinkling right now outside but rest assured the park has a huge gazebo every bit as nice (if not nicer) than the one in Soda Springs Park. If you need more info on what you should bring please see the last newsletter (http://www.inclineclub.com/newsletter/2002/lr39a.htm). You might want to add to that list a picnic chair. Come early, come late but just come — even if you only made one workout. Heck, virtual ICers are welcome too.
OK that is enough for now because as you will see there are 36 R reports from the PPA/M/Leadville races. If you have not filled out your R report please head over to http://www.inclineclub.com/rreports.htm and do so. Some of this year’s reports are the best I have ever read!!!
Note: Leadville reports start at the bottom.
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PPA/M R reports batch #1 (in the order that they were received)
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The 51 IC Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon stories are archive here:
http://www.skyrunner.com/story/p_stories_02.htm
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Leadville 100 R reports batch #1
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Rick Crawford reports:
Race = Leadville Trail 100
Goal = to finish
Results = 39.5m
General = Good weather conditions early on but a little warm
mid day. A little tight in my gluts in the beginning
and thought it would work itself out. It continued to
spread to my hams and quads and reduced me to a walk
the last 12miles to Twin Lakes. I banked time to every aid station but Twin Lakes and missed it by 20min. As I continued my way to Twin Lakes couldn’t figure out what I did wrong until back at the condo it dawned on me I changed my mind about what shoes to start with .
Bad mistake. I know I can finish so I will return next year
Right = Nutrition, hydration, Training with the INCLINE CLUB, tapering
Wrong = Shoes
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Paul Sullivan reports
Race = Leadville 100 Pacer
Goal = Pace Keith in for a Top 10 Finish
Results = Ahh, DNF!
General = Keith picked me up at around 76 miles into the race. Unfortunately, Keith, who ran a personal best 50-mile pace, coming in 8th at the midway point, violated race rules #1 & #2: went out too fast and didn’t hydrate enough. Suffering from kidney shock just after 50, Keith spiraled downward and probably wisely dropped out at around 86 miles. As for me, it greatly saddened my heart to see Keith — the Man/the Mouth — reduced to mush. As for excitement, find out about Rick Hesseck’s poopy story at Mile 97 as told by his pacer, Neal Oseland. It’s stinking funny!
Right = Ridiculed Keith when he was really down.
Wrong = Didn’t ridicule him enough at the time. However, there’s 364 days left until next year’s Leadville 100.
Other Stuff = Keith, It’s going to suck to be you this next year, really!
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Rick Hessek reports:
Race = Leadville 100
Goal = 21:36:00
Results = 22:39:53 18th Overall
General = This was my 1st attempt at running a 100 mile race.
Knowing that Leadville 100 typically has a finisher
percentage of under 50%, I went into the race
respecting it.
Right = Put the training in since the beginning of the year.
Wrong = I feel not much went wrong that I could of prevented. Had some low spots occasionally throughout the race but I was able to recover. I would of like to finished in the time I set as my goal but I found out that a lot of problems can and do occur over the course of 100 miles. If you were to ask the 171 finishers behind me and the 276 that DNF’ed they would probably agree that my race went a little better then there’s did.
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Stephen Mitchell reports:
Race = Leadville Trail 100-mile
Goal = Finish before 30 hours
Results = 29:05:32
General = Over 400 runners, 189 finished. Weather: warm for the area, dry, calm mostly, stars were beautiful at night. Aid stations very well done. Volunteers were most helpful. Trail well marked, even at night (with glow sticks everywhere). Difficult terrain: Hope Pass south side, must be about 21% grade; Sugarloaf Pass at night, seemed very long. Most of the course is on trails, some jeep trails, some dirt roads, a little bit of paved road, and one stream of significance to cross near Twin Lakes. Starts at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday in the middle of August (usually the same weekend as PPA/M) and closes at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. Entry fee was $195 (2002). There is a website: http://www.leadvilletrail100.com
There is also a training weekend the last days of June and first days of July (in 2002: 29-30JUN and 1JUL). Well worth the $125 (2002) fee to run the course and talk to other veterans of the race.
Right = Ran with the Incline Club as much as possible.
Did a 50-miler (Collegiate Peaks) in May to baseline. Ran the training weekend to see the course.
Tapered severely the last two weeks before race (no more than 2 miles, mostly walked or took bike rides).
Trained with an experienced ultra runner.
Packed my drop bags with my expected times of arrival in mind to determine what to drop at each aid station.
Packed my drop bags with things I like to drink, eat, wear.
Put clean socks on at each aid station and used Bag Balm to lube each time (no blisters occurred).
Put oldest pair of shoes on before going through stream and took them off after coming back through the stream.
Used several pairs of shoes.
Wore Gore-Tex during the cold of the night, along with good gloves, and a balaclava (sp?).
Packed extra sets of batteries in all drop bags.
Wore a Timex speed+distance watch for pace determination.
Read everything I could put my hands on about the race.
Started very long base training early with the club.
Had pacers/crew at night.
Consumed about 5,000 calories of food and 3,000 calories of hydration fluid (only lost 3 pounds).
Wrong = Should have used pacers/crew at all points allowed (I waited until 60.5 mile point, they let you have pacers at 50 mile point and crew at most locations).
Some more hydration would have helped some.
Did not have warm clothes for Hope Pass.
Did not listen to pacers (they were more coherent).
Did not have a crew for the whole race (would have helped a lot).
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