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We left California on Wednesday August
19th -
stayed overnight in Richfield, Utah and arrived in Leadville,
Colorado on Thursday afternoon. |
The California Old Goats, Steve & Doug, drove out to Colorado with
fellow So Cal Trail Headz member Lambert Timmermans (LT). |
We saw many interesting rock formations as we drove through Utah. |
Cowboy
Steve (& also president of the So Cal Trail Headz) ready to captain
our Camry land yacht across California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah &
Colorado. |
Lambert & Doug at Ghost Rock |
Panorama view of Ghost Rock in Utah with LT and Steve. Where did
those clones come from? |
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Doug up on Ghost Rock. |
LT (Lambert) was running the Leadville Trail 100 race that started on
Saturday, the day before our Transrockies 6 day race started in
Buena Vista, CO. |
We got to sleep at this altitude for 3 nights before Transrockies.
Helpful acclimatization. |
Ted Liao, Lambert Timmermans and Steve Harvey in Leadville at 3 AM.
Getting the boys ready for their 4 AM start and 100 mile trail run
adventure. |
Early Saturday morning August 22nd - off to downtown for the 4 AM
start of Lambert's 100 miler. |
LT - minutes before the 4 AM start of the LT 100!
Lambert looks like he could use a few more cups of coffee!! |
I was embarrassed that 9 runners age 70 and over were entered
in LT's race. I felt like a mere party person to run 113 miles in 6
days. The LT100 results, however, showed that none of these
70+ guys finished.
Tells me something. |
Steve & I drove to the Fish Hatchery aid station at mile 25 to wait
for LT.
Here Steve is showing the Leadville runners the directions to Hope
Pass! |
Lambert arriving at the Fish Hatchery aid station. 25 miles
done and 75 to go! |
Next we drove to Twin Lakes. This will be Lambert's soon to be
view of starting up Hope Pass |
Doug with the Vasque brand running gear rep. |
Runners coming down the steep trail into the Twin Lakes aid station. |
Lambert gets to do Hope Pass TWICE! LT buckled with a 29:22 total
time! |
Off to Buena Vista, Colorado to register for our Transrockies race.
(Our ORANGE shirt day.) |
We took Lambert's drop bag to the 50 mile turn around aid station
and then had to quit our crew duties for him to go register for our
race in Buena Vista, CO. |
Whoa - her comes daughter Michelle - a welcome sight after 3 days
with Steve & LT! |
Michelle with Gor-Tex's Cynthia Amon and Transrockies Race Director
Aaron McConnell |
Steve and Doug with the ever cheerful Luciana Cox from Brazil.
Luciana worked Transrockies as a volunteer crew member last year and
decided to race in it this year. |
Steve with Heather Hamilton and Chantal Hilbert (Team The Lost
Girls) from Vancouver, Canada. |
Michelle with Team North Face's Kami Semick & Nikki Kimball
(winner of the 2004 Western States 100 mile race). |
Transrockies Day 1
Sunday August 23rd in Buena Vista, CO. Steve with Michelle and
Erika Mastny. |
This year we have our slogan on our shirts!
(YELLOW shirt day.) |
Doug with daughter Michelle and supersonic trail nymph, Erika Mastny,
of team Crasian |
Team PUNK/Genr8. Mark Matyasic (Irvine, CA) and daughter Michelle
Barton (Laguna Niguel, CA). |
Team Do Dad Do - Thomas & Monica Miller of Irvine, CA ready
to roll.
There were a total of 3 teams from Orange County, California at the
2009 Transrockies!
Might be 10 next year? |
10: 00 AM Sunday August 23rd and we are off for our Day1 run of 20.4
miles with 2,721 feet of climbs!
Official Day 1 race
coverage & more photos at:
http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=248 |
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Day 1
proved Steve & I have different physiologies. He has done 100
mile races, such as Leadville, in his youth with zero altitude
acclimatization days! I on the other hand have done enough
backpacking and trail running at high elevations to know I really
need 3 or more days of good workouts, not just idle loafing around
at elevation before I feel acclimated and get my "Stompin' Mountain
Mojo" back. Day 1 was tough for me and Steve could have been
at the finish line probably a 1/2 hour before me except for the
Transrockies rule that team members have to stick within two minutes
of each other. I ended up running the final third of this 20.4
mile day with Neil Rhodes from England because his partner Wullie
Brown from Scotland got serious altitude sickness including vomiting
and had to drop for the day. |
Transrockies Day
2 Monday August
24th. We got shuttled to Vicksburg & had to run up and over
HOPE PASS (12,583' elevation) to Twin Lakes - a run of 10.0 miles
with 3,098' feet of climbs! |
Doug & Steve ready to get going on Day 2. |
Hanz Schmid (69) from San Francisco with Steve. |
The herd getting anxious for the 8:30 AM start!
This was Our
BLUE shirt day. |
We had a couple of miles along a dirt road before heading up the Hope
Pass trail. Here Steve is with Kevin Stuart & Lynn Astalos of
Team CԽMERE & CԽMORE. |
Panorama view of The
trail up Hope Pass. Joe & Missie behind David Rosenberg. |
Missie and Joe Martinez of Team Texas Sweatbacks 1/2
way up to the summit. |
Joe Edgecombe from Florida striding strong up the Hope Pass trail. |
Spectacular views. |
The long string of Transrockies people now all above tree line.
YUP - we all started WAY, WAY down there! |
Amanda Kim & Neal Oku
of Team Kiddiewinkles borrowed our flag for a cool summit
picture! |
David Rosenberg & Judy
Galloway of Team Survivor Redux. |
Fumie Sato and Yoshiko
Jo of Team Kobuta, JAPAN almost at the summit!
Kobuta means little piggies. The goats became instant
friends with the little piggies! |
Team California Old
Goats, Steve & Doug pose at the summit. |
Finished for the day and greeted by Rafael and his pet crocodile.
Official Day 2 race
coverage & more photos at:
http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=254 |
Michelle and dad at the Goats well marked tents in Leadville.
Custom flags, gravity defying plush goats. Even plastic
mountain goats on the top of our flag poles! |
Doug & Michelle with super friend, Cindy Honebein, who is boss of
all the all important massage team. Soaking in a freezing
creek first, followed by a massage is key to enjoying day
after day on the trails. |
A hug for Steve whom has never been away from his wife Annie this
long in all their 18 years! |
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Day 2
going up and over Hope Pass at 12,583' elevation was fairly easy and
our shortest day. Mostly a tediously long power walk up the
3,000' in 3 mile slope. And we finished our Hope Pass stage in
1 minute and 8 seconds faster than last year. |
Transrockies Day
3 Tuesday
August 25th. Leadville to Camp Hale.
24.3 miles & 2,930' of climbs. (Our PURPLE shirt day.) |
Today is purple shirt day! The Goats are ready to go! We
are starting the race right down the main street in Leadville with a
police escort! |
Kim Kanaday and Fran Mason of Team Thing1 & Thing2 at the
starting line. |
Steve stops for a second to thank the school children for cheering
all the runners on. |
Another day of awesome scenery! |
Click
HERE
to see a .mpg video of Luciana
doing pushups after finishing her 24 mile day in the mountains! |
Team Kobuta finish! |
Doug resting by the pond after Day 3.
Official Day 3 race
coverage & more photos at:
http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=265 |
Two nights at Camp Hale gave super volunteer Memphis Joe
time to make yummy Margaritas for his 200 closest friends His truck
is his saloon! |
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Day 3
saw Team California Old Goats knock 6 minutes and 18 seconds from
our last years time for this leg. I can tell I am getting my
"Mountain Mojo" back - finally!!
Click
HERE
to see our Day 4 - 6 Transrockies PHOTOS |
