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Bighorn 100

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Location:

Billings,MT,

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

~~Longest Ultra: Bighorn Trail Run: 12:19:00, 52 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 20, 2015

50K: Bighorn Trail Run: 5:52:13, 32 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 15, 2013

Marathon: 3:25:01, Deseret News Marathon, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

Half-Marathon: 1:37:00 (downhill), Deseret News Marathon Split, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

10K: 44:07, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2012

5K: 20:25, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into running shape.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Not get super fat, and qualify for Boston before I'm 50 (April 2023).

Personal:

Started running seriously in March 2010. Married 22 years to a hot momma and we have 3 boys, 1 sweet girl, 2 dogs, 3 2 0 1 cat, and 6     4 5 6 3 5 3 1 2 0 chickens (until Spring 2019 when we'll start over). As of September 2018 I'm looking for work... yay. I'm on the local School Board.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles: 424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles: 396.50
Adrenaline 18 #2 Lifetime Miles: 64.00
Altra Lifetime Miles: 50.50
Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles: 50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles: 223.00
Total Distance
86.55
Cascadia 9 Miles: 31.30Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 15.25Brooks ASR 9 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
5.30

Night run! Thankfully I was late getting to Angela's house so I saw the thunderstorm coming our way, otherwise we would have been caught in a very vulnerable spot during some intense lightning. Left at 10:30 pm, an hour late, so cut the run short. It was muddy in lots of spots and Angela wasn't wearing her traction shoes (didn't expect mud before the storm and forgot to change shoes before heading out) so that slowed us down. Very interesting to trail run with headlamps! Hers is 300 lumens which was amazing. Mine is only 100 so not great but good enough. Might get a new light for me before the run.

Cascadia 9 Miles: 5.30
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
6.00

6 miles this fine morning. Good effort. Looking forward to a long run on Saturday.

Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
4.00

4 miles this morning with a nice West breeze which made my hands cold. Loved it. Fast last mile of 6:50 really surprised me.

Looked again at the portion of the 100 miler I'll be pacing and it's daunting. I start at 8800 feet, climb to 8951, drop to 4590 over 14 miles, climb to 6800 the next 3.5 miles, then minor ups and downs until climbing back to 7500 where I finish. And a bunch of this should be in the dark. Fun stuff!

Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 4.00
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Total Distance
20.00

20 miles on the trail with a friend. It was a great morning. Got up at 4:45 and drove the 30 minutes to the trail, hit the trail by 5:50 am. 42 degrees on the thermometer but calm. No gloves, short sleeve tech shirt. Hands cold the first 30 minutes, then actually cold until mile 15 but it was okay. Thumbs still usable. Lots of up and down on this trail with total elevation gain of 1700 feet. AP: 11:59, average moving pace 11:25. Had 30 ounces of water in the pack, 22 ounces Gatorade in the handheld. Ate jelly beans and 1 gel and a few bites of Hammer bars from my friend. Took a Salt Stick every hour. Great run and I think I'm ready to pace. 

Cascadia 9 Miles: 20.00
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Total Distance
5.25

5+ miles on the road today at lunch. 76%, 24% humidity. Not bad but I was major sweaty when done. Not San Antonio sweaty, but sweaty. Good run but I probably pushed the pace a bit much just because I could. My legs are a bit sore from Saturday's long run so I was pushing through the aches and enjoying the weather. My left foot hurts a bit afterwards. It's in the arch of my foot so likely it's a strained ligament or something. I felt it a little bit after Saturday's run but nothing worse noting. Today was almost limp-worthy after the Y but now a couple hours later it's feeling better. Guess I'll take it easy until my pacing duties are over.

AP: 8:15

Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 5.25
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
5.00

Beautiful chilly morning, slight rain and breeze. Cold hands = pure bliss. Kept it slow and steady, although last mile dipped down to 7:30 pace on a slight downhill. Left foot felt okay but definitely some soreness in the arch when I walk. Wearing my stiff hiking boots at work today to limit arch movement and that seems to be helping. It also helps that my group moved our offices today so we got to wear jeans. The boots might look a little weird with my dress slacks.

Foot is feeling okay, just want to be sure I don't hurt it more before the pacing begins.

Cascadia 9 Miles: 5.00
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Total Distance
1.00

Hmph. Been babying my left arch but at 1 mile I felt something weird I haven't felt before. Feels like I pulled something in my foot. Stopped running and walked home. Iced it just now in an ice bucket. That's cooold. Anyone have suggestions on how I should tape my foot for next week's pacing run?

Cascadia 9 Miles: 1.00
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Race: Bighorn 100 (34 Miles) 12:40:00
Total Distance
34.00

Paced a runner 34 miles in her first 100 at the Bighorn 100. It was a great experience. She made it to the cutoff time at the end of my turn by 2 minutes; the next cutoff she made by 14 seconds; finished the whole thing 4 minutes before the cutoff. So proud of her. It was tough conditions and 150/256 finished. She missed DFL by two spots. Oddly I had no pain in my left foot today so I was just being overly cautious last week. I'll take it. Picked her up at 3:15 am and finished at 4:00 pm. Long but fun day. Report: Got to Jaws Trailhead by 9 pm, as she thought she'd be there by 9:30. I knew that was way underestimating the hills. What a party! Lots of people, very cool atmosphere. I pulled out the thermarest and sleeping bag and just about then the lightning, thunder, and rain started. I dozed in the crew car the next few hours and got a couple hours sleep. The cutoff time was 5 am and about 2 am I gave up on her. Just after 3 her pacer knocked on the car door and she was in! I rushed up to the tent, hurriedly decided on what to wear and bring and packed up. She was under-dressed the 5 hours before getting in so was freezing (was rained and snowed on with no jacket and uncovered legs) but warmed up quickly and put on her winter gear. We headed out at 3:15 am. The next 3 miles were the worst mud I've ever seen and it slayed a lot of people today. We quickly moved through it with minimal wetness. She was moving okay and we kept it fairly steady. I wore a 100 lumen headlamp then carried a 200 lumen flashlight and a handheld water bottle full of water. Had a Nathan pack on my back filled with Heed. That was a great combination. She forgot to fix her heel at Jaws so we stopped a couple times to work on the blister that formed. Thankfully I'd brought a knuckle bandage and that worked perfectly. We stopped after the sun came up and bandaged the heel and put on fresh socks. That worked great and she moved much better after that. Made it to Foot Bridge aid station with our drop bags at 9:30 am. Got her some medical help and cleaned off her feet, taped up the blister and other hot spots, and wrapped her right ankle which she'd twisted early in the race. I changed socks but not shoes as my Cascadias are way better in technical terrain then my ASRs. Took off tights, changed to short sleeve shirt, refueled, and we were off by 9:45. What a brutal hill the next 3+ miles. If there were a 7 point bull elk at the top of the hill and all I had to do was hike up it to bring that bull home I would leave it there. Honestly ridiculous. She was dying up hills so this was a big struggle. After 5 minutes she was struggling with the tape job and we couldn't fix it and had no moleskin or more bandages with us so I told her to keep going on and I turned around and ran down the hill, grabbed another large bandage and some tape from her drop bag then ran back to meet her. That was fun and didn't take me long. We finally made it to the top of the nasty hill but the climbing continued for a long, long time. Brutal climb. We were doing math in our head to see if we could make the next major aid station with a cutoff time. It would be tight. She could run on the down and flat so we ran when we could but walked up everything as it was killing her. She did a good job eating and drinking and taking salt sticks but I had to prod her to eat a gel when she wasn't feeling it. She did well and was really tough. We finally got to Cow Camp, the last station before I was done. We had 6 uphill miles to go and exactly 2 hours to do it. Tough, tough to do. I thought we could do it for the first hour, but the second hour we could see the aid station in the distance and I thought there was no way but I told her we could do it. At one point I basically admitted defeat but told her to continue on in case they let us go past the cutoff time of 4 pm. We jogged when we could and walked as fast as possible. Finally we could see the end but we were 25 minutes out. A pacer ran down the hill and it was her next pacer! He came to pull her up the hill. We had time to do it as the station was closer than I had thought. I left them and ran up the hill to get her stuff together as she needed to be out by 4 pm and we were cutting it close. Her husband crewed her and is awesome. He ran down a bit and I told him what we need and then I helped him when I got there. We had all her stuff ready and laid out for her when she arrived with 5 minutes to spare. We got her socks and shoes changed, some fluids in her, packed a jacket just in case, and got her off 2 minutes before the cutoff. What a cool experience. I found out later she made the next checkpoint by 14 seconds, then finished the race 4 minutes before the 34 hour cutoff. She is a trouper!

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Total Distance
6.00

Wind died down after sunset so after a long day of helping people move and doing yard work I headed out for a night run. It was fantastic. No moon, lots of stars, only 2 cars. Great to be running again.

AP: 8:15

Brooks ASR 9 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
86.55
Cascadia 9 Miles: 31.30Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 15.25Brooks ASR 9 Miles: 6.00
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