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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:39 AM
Subject: Incline Club News V10 LR #17
Howdy ICers..
Good Turnout for the Double
The double loop of Waldo and Longs Ranch Road, that is! Seventy-three
ICers came out for last week’s challenging run.
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Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon Registration Debate
Will the Pike Peak races continue to fill up as quickly as they did this
year? Should the Pikes Peak races move to a lottery system? Or stay as
they are? There is an interesting debate going on at the Incline Club
Message Board. Read up or give your two cents:
http://www.inclineclub.com/board.asp
Train hard and train smart!
Connilee
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NEXT RUN:
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Sunday, Mar. 19, 8:00am — Memorial Park
Head out El Paso and into the GOG. Run up Rampart Range Road to just past
the antenna. Head down Williams Canyon one mile and take the right up to
Waldo and head back to the park via UPT. 2.5-4.5 hours. Shorter option -
go all the way down Williams.
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THIS WEEK’S QUOTE:
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“Your mind is what makes everything else work.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Hall
of Fame basketball player)
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ICers WRITE:
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Reminder About Hut Trips
Doug Laufer writes: It may only be March but it is not too early to plan
your summer running adventures and search for red blood cells. One great
way to collect red cells is to sign up for the “Summer Kenyan Running
Camp” aka “High Altitude Training Week” aka “Summer Hut Trip 2006.”
The hut trip offers great trial running, mountain biking, , or just a
chance to hang out and catch up on reading, relaxing, and enjoying life.
If you have never stayed at the huts it really is something you should do
sometime. Stay as long (or short as you like).
Camp will be held this year at Betty Bear and Skinner huts (part of the
10th Mountain Hut network). Betty Bear is at 11,100 feet and Skinner at
11,620!! Plans are to stay at Betty Bear July 21-22 and Skinner July
23-24.
In the summer it is possible to drive to within a ¼ mile of the huts, but
it is more fun to mountain bike in (and lots more fun to ride out). You
can check out Betty Bear, Skinner, and 10th Mtn Huts in general, at
www.huts.org, call 970-925-5775 for reservations — the cost is $28 a
night.
Hut trip and Pikes Peak veterans Rick May & Doug Laufer have already
booked reservations for the dates listed above. Between them they have 52
Peak finishes; 33 ascents, 19 round trips (18 doubles) and not many brain
cells left; despite their advanced age both can still run very slow for a
rather long time.
Please feel free to forward this information to anyone you thing might be
interested in the hut trip.
happy TRAILS!!
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Everest Awards Nominees
Nancy Hobbs writes: Wanted to let you know that a couple of ICers were
nominated for the Everest Awards to be presented this year as part of the
festivities during the Teva Mountain Games. There were six finalists in
the trail running category (3 for men, 3 for women) and we’ll find out at
the awards ceremony on June 3 who gets the award — one for men, one for
women. More info at www.tevamountaingames.com
(Editor’s Note: Although the tevamountainngames site says that nominees
would be announced on March 10, the editor was unable to find the names of
the nominees. However, rumor has it that Nancy is amongst the nominees.
Congratulations!)
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IC BIRTHDAYS: 3/15/2006 — 3/21/2006
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David Steadman:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=David%20Steadman
Gloria Murphy:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Gloria%20Murphy
Jessica Griffiths:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Jessica%20Griffiths
John Thompson:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=John%20Thompson
Kita Alvares:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Kita%20Alvares
Lisa Hubchik:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Lisa%20Hubchik
Michele Vaughan:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Michele%20Vaughan
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NEW IC MEMBERS: 3/8/2006 — 3/14/2006
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Christopher Jones:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Christopher%20Jones
Daniel Kurschner:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Daniel%20Kurschner
Felix Colonnieves:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Felix%20Colonnieves
Katy Dartford:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Katy%20Dartford
Travis Claybrooks:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Travis%20Claybrooks
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UPDATED ABOUT ME PAGES: 3/8/2006 — 3/14/2006
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Cereta Grimes:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Cereta%20Grimes
Jason Jungbauer:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Jason%20Jungbauer
Jenny Hockman:
http://www.inclineclub.com/show.asp?name=Jenny%20Hockman
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“R” REPORTS:
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Wright North American Snowshoe Championships
Race: Jeremy Wright North American Snowshoe Championships
Location: Beaver Creek Colorado
Date: March 5, 2006
Distance: 10K
Goal: Win and pick up a quick $1,250
Results: Lost (2nd by 19 seconds) and got a not so quick $600
Website: http://www.gohighline.com/bcsnowshoe/event4_06_overall.pdf
General Information:
I jumped into this race at the spur of the moment to put the “hobby books"
back in balance. I have developed a nasty little addiction to flying R/C
airplanes. Well, the flying is not the nasty part, it is the crashing that
is costing all the money.
At any rate, it turns out just jumping into things can be a bad idea. I
got schooled and paid for my indiscretion. Well, actually I was paid to
get schooled but someone else got paid twice as much to be the teacher.
Things Done Right:
1) Despite some rather comical falls in the singletrack section I did not
give up and at least kept the winner in the same zip code.
2) I wore shorts and I think I was the only one who did. It was a great
day and I was getting hot with tights just in my warm-up so I can’t
imagine what it would have been like to race in tights and jackets like
everyone else.
Things Done Wrong:
1) I fell six times to the winner’s one with three of them being in the
single-track. That put me way back although I worked back to about 10
seconds. But then I fell again and got stuck in the snow with about 300
yards to go. Chalk that up to being the first time my snowshoes have seen
snow since the last time I did this race in 2001. Five years is too long
and I paid for my lack of practice on the skill side of the race. I should
have at least thrown on my snowshoes for a couple of training runs.
However, in a strange kind of way it was awesome to watch the winner pull
away as I enjoy watching people with that kind of skill do their thing.
In this race it certainly wasn’t me. I would get up, go another
switchback, and fall... Race over:-(
2) I did not read the race rules or lack thereof. I just assumed it was like in
2001 when pretty much every snowshoe race had a 25" snowshoe rule which is
what I was running in. Well not anymore — no rules! The winner and many others
were in what appeared to be 20" shoes. This is not sour grapes on my part as
I freely admit it was stupid to give myself such a handicap. But heck their snowshoes
looked like kid’s snowshoes next to mine and that is what irks me the most in
that I had Kyla’s 16" snowshoes with me for her to play with which since they
had no rules I guess I could have worn. Well I guess in theory since they had no
rules I could have run in my running shoes as that would have been the fastest
on this hard-packed course...
3) I did not take the competition seriously enough. Bottom line, I thought this
would be easy money (literally) and because I was not prepared (see #1) and stupid (see
#2) the competition creamed me. I tried to console myself in that I did
pretty well considering #1 & #2 but in the end I lost and I don’t like to
lose. I shall just have to train harder because after all was said and
done I only lost by 7 hundredths of a percent!
Other Stuff:
The course was hard-packed and all and all it was pointless to be wearing
snowshoes other than the fact that it was snowshoe race. In one downhill
section they had single-track packed down in some deep snow. It was like a
bobsled run. It would go like 20 yards and switchback and go another 20
yards and switchback for what seemed like about 8 switchbacks. It was fun
and frustrating at the same time. I caught myself laughing after one of my
falls at the thought of someone else laughing when they set the course
just knowing that they were going to take out a lot of people just like they
took out me. Kinda reminded me of the way Larry Miller goes about setting the
cross country series:-)
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RACE CALENDAR:
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Current version of the Incline Club calendar
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WWW POSTS:
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3/12/2006 Sun: 73 showed on a good day for a double! The Waldo LRR double
that is. In addition, the top 29 on the * board showed which is a big
number for this far into the season. Little snow to be found on Ute and
Waldo but LRR had it’s share although it was not very deep. Things also
got a tad cold at the top of LRR and heading down to No Name.
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