I'll post the results later. Right now, I'm just keeping him in my prayers.
Postscript: He came in 13th overall, 10th in the men, 3rd in his age group. 11 hours and 37 minutes. Hope he gives us details in his blog.
August 20, 2011
Where's Waldo?
Today Neil is running the ultra marathon at Waldo Lake. It's a grueling 62.5 miles long of difficult mountain terrain! They started at 5 am and right now (9:23 am) he's in 6th place.
Last year he missed this race because of our reunion at Heber Valley. Quite a sacrifice I think, as he probably wanted to defend his record from the year before when he earned the course record for masters in 10:02:39. Most of us were there to support him. The Dodges, Andrei, and we were camping at Waldo Lake. Here's a picture of him crossing the finish line which I didn't actually see because as usual, he came in earlier than he predicted he would!
I'll post the results later. Right now, I'm just keeping him in my prayers.
Postscript: He came in 13th overall, 10th in the men, 3rd in his age group. 11 hours and 37 minutes. Hope he gives us details in his blog.
I'll post the results later. Right now, I'm just keeping him in my prayers.
Postscript: He came in 13th overall, 10th in the men, 3rd in his age group. 11 hours and 37 minutes. Hope he gives us details in his blog.
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THAT'S MY DADDY!! =D
Some years it has been more grueling than others. This year I was about at my goal pace to start with, then slipped a little, the realized my legs were already getting tired and that I wasn't going to be able to maintain that, which meant that the next 42 miles were going to make for a very long day. So I dialed my speed back, which allowed me recover a little, but that ran out by the next hill. Based on my observations of input and output, I figured I was getting dehydrated. But if I ran harder I got more nauseated, so that was a limiter as well. I took short breaks at the aid stations which helped some, and I stopped caring whether people passed me. It really is beautiful country, and I tried to enjoy that. The last 16 miles I walked anything that wasn't downhill or at least flat, and some things that were. I would run for a minute or two then walk. I would use the excuse of getting pine needles and debris out of my shoe to stop, but the mosquitoes limited that. The last killer climb I had a couple of people kindly match their pace to mine for a time to keep me company. I know the guy that won it by reputation. I knew he was fast, but I didn't realize he was able to beat Eric Skaggs' course record. And he's over 40, so he killed my masters record by 47 minutes. Skipping it last year was only a sacrifice if you define sacrifice as giving up something good for something better. I'm going to sacrifice doing 100k's in the future unless I can figure out and replicate what I was doing in my training different in order to go faster and less painfully like 2009.
57 minutes, not 47. Thanks for the prayers! It's really not much of a spectator sport. Following on-line was as good as being there.
You made 13th out of 100s--you're still doing alright! Dad
There is a story, perhaps fable, that our ancestor Andreas would run from Pleasant Grove to Salt Lake and back in a day – that would be about 60 miles, so you've got him beat not even adding the terrain!
It's always fun to be part of team Neil!!!
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