Steve and Doug welcome you to their:

California Old Goats
2008/2009 Transrockies race training website

Transrockies: TRAINING 2009 2008 Transrockies: RACE 2009 2008
Other EVENTS 70th Birthday - 70at70 Grand Canyon - 23 miles Leona Divide - 28.5 miles
Shadow of the Giants 50K Camp Pendleton MUD RUN Dad's Day 1/2 marathon
Our August 25, 2009 HEADLINE:
The Old Goats successfully finished the 2009 Transrockies 6 day, 113.5 mile  endurance run
(again)!
www.Transrockies.com

Day 4 - to Red Cliff.  Steve & Doug are at the high point for the day (11,668' elevation).  After 3,009' of climbing we got to run downhill a total of 3,580'!  Whoo Hoo!
Doug was 70 on March 28, 2009 and ran 70 miles to celebrate.  Steve was 65 on June 19, 2009!

Doug was the oldest runner at both the 2008 & 2009 Transrockies.  This year the California Old Goats beat their last year's total times (in the 5 of the 6 stages that were identical) by 13 minutes. If we can keep improving at this rate we will be on the winners podium when 100 years old!
 
The geezers also beat 24% of the teams that started!
More pictures: HERE

Here is the SUPER music video summary of the 2009 Transrockies race!
(Shows quite a bit of the amazing scenery we got to experience!)

 

FINAL 2009 Transrockies race route data
and results
August 23 – 28, 2009          BUENA VISTA - LEADVILLE - BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO, USA
Stage  Day August Date Route Distance (miles) Feet of Climbing Feet of Descent Min Elev. Max Elev. Our Times NET MINUTES (in the 5 of 6 identical stages)
2009 2008
1 Sun 23rd Buena Vista to RR Bridge (shuttle to Vicksburg)  20.4 2,721 2,398  7,919  9,329 NEW 20.4 miles (5:50:36)  13.0 miles (2:47:44)
2 Mon 24th Vicksburg to Twin Lakes (shuttle to Leadville)  10.0 3,098 3,570 9.203 12,538 3:32:12 3:33:20 (-1:08)
3 Tue 25th Leadville to Camp Hale 24.3 2,930 3,833 9,200 10,945 6:10:57 6:17:12 (-6:15)
4 Wed 26th Camp Hale to Red Cliff 14.2 3,009 3,580 8,650 11,668 3:59:31 4:16:14 (-16:43)
5 Thur 27th Red Cliff to Vail  23.4 4,407 4,868 8,191 11,787 6:42:01 6:40:58 1:03
6 Fri 28th Vail to Beaver Creek 21.2 4,623  4,718 7,420 10,512 6:17:55 6:08:14 9:41
      TOTALS   113.5 20,784 23,017     32:33:12 29:43:42 (-13:22)

WHY did you sign up for this race in 2008?
Steve & Doug's Answers; Doug's Trail Running Bio; Steve's Trail Running Bio

Doug & Steve's 2009 TRAINING LOG with PHOTOS out on the scenic California trails!
(click on any photo to see a larger version)

Our Grand Canyon Trail Running Adventure - October 18, 2009
Down to the bottom and back up in 7.5 hours!         More pictures HERE:

Eric Lumba and Doug at Mather Point.  Sunday morning Oct 18, 2009.  10 years and 6 months since my last visit in April 1999.
Doug toodling along on the Bright Angel trail.  About 3 miles from the finish.  Very few near-level, runnable sections on the way up.  Was mostly power hiking.
This is my  Garmin GPS data for the run uploaded into Google Earth. You can see our entire route along the rim, down into the depths and back up.  (I added all the notations and arrows.)


May 30, 2009 - Annie, Steve & Doug enjoying the Shadow of the Giants 50K trail race just out side of Yosemite National Park. 


January 1, 2009 - Starting out the new year right with a healthy trail run!


June 21, 2009 - Doug ran his 30th annual and consecutive Dad's Day half marathon from Irvine to Laguna Beach in 1:54:49.


OUR 2008 SURPRISE...
The California Old Goats finished 51st out of 68 teams
(all quite a bit younger)!
Pre-race final training week at altitude in Colorado pictures HERE

2008 race week results & pictures HERE
We had fun and made many new friends!

Read Steve's humorous day by day race reports at his blog here: http://californiaoldgoats.blogspot.com  
Steve is also Race Director for several trail ultrasSee: www.OldGoatRunners.com  


If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please EMail us at:
Doug@CaliforniaOldGoats.com   or   Steve@CaliforniaOldGoats.com
(As of Sep. 7, 2009, we will be posting reader's comments and start making our website like a real blog!)

We are the Old Goats.
We look bad.
We smell bad.
We are Baaaaaaaaad!

See you in the mountains!

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