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Transrockies Day 4
Wednesday August 26th. Camp Hale to Red Cliff. |
14.2 miles with 3,009' of climbs.
(Our RED shirt day.)
Click
HERE to see today's route on Google
Earth.
(Sorry, I found out that my Garmin 305 didn't have enough storage to
save the previous 3 days of detailed run data.) |
Elevation Profile
for Day 4 |
3D View of our Day
4 |
Daughter & Dad ready for another day of racing (in Dad's case toodling). |
Doug with Kami Semick and Nikki Kimball of Team North Face. |
Dean Karnazes with Michelle |
Time to leave Camp Hale and its serenity. |
LT, Steve & Doug on a sunny morning |
Off and running. After about 1/2 mile the course became a steep
2 mile uphill, which of course, the Old Goats hiked.
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Joe Edgecombe and lots of runners spread out along the trail.
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WOW! Love those gorgeous Colorado mountains. |
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This was the day of the long cold creek and blister mechanics working on my
growing heel blister! |
Michelle Barton is a BLURRRR at the finish!
No - you can't STOP HER!
Official Day 4
race coverage & more photos at: http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=272 |
LT is now OUR crew and is now reasonably rested after
his grueling 100 mile trail race. Leadville was Lambert's
7th 100 miler this year! |
Anita Ortiz, female winner of this years Western States 100 mile race
in June, innovates a new purpose for a mountain bike - a clothes
dryer! |
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I got to the Red Cliff
finish a good 5 minutes before Steve. Lambert was there
waiting. Once Steve appeared, we both had to yell at him to
scoot, so we could beat 4 hours! We crossed together at
3:59:30, which was 16:43 faster than last year! Our
most improved time for the 2009 year!! |
Transrockies Day 5
Thursday August 27th. Red Cliff to Vail. |
23.4 miles with 4,407' of climbs. Our third 20+ mile day.
(SCREAMING LIME shirt day.)
Click
HERE to see today's route on Google
Earth.
(The PLAY TOUR button starts an animated flyby of
today's route.) |
Elevation Profile for Day 5 |
3D View of our Day 5 |
And we are off... |
Thomas & Monica Miller |
Always
more majestic scenery! |
Don & Elizabeth Cassano of Team Run Wild |
Panorama near the high point of the day. Elizabeth & Don
Cassano in the foreground. |
Steve, Fumie, Yoshiko & Doug finished together. |
This is the 1st day we didn't beat the "little piggies". Fumie
is the Asian 48 hour world record holder of 344 kilometers = 206
miles! |
Our tent city on the plush Vail lawn.
Official Day 5 race coverage & more photos at: http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=279 |
Erika Mastny and her
best Transrockies bud Michelle. |
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Today we came across the
finish line arm-in-arm with Team Kobuta. Turned out
that we were 1
minute and 3 seconds slower than last year's total of 6 hours and 42
minutes for this same stage. Blame it on fun socializing! |
Transrockies Day
6 Friday August 28th.
Vail to Beaver Creek and the end!
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21.2 miles with 4,623' of climbs. Our
4th 20+ mile day.
Click
HERE to see today's route on Google
Earth.
(The PLAY TOUR button starts an animated flyby of
today's route.) |
Elevation Profile
for Day 6 |
3D View of our Day
6 |
5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 Bang!
Off on the final leg. |
Up though the lovely Aspen groves. |
The final 1,400' climb out of Avon. |
Mark Matyazic and Michelle Barton approaching the finish. |
Mark & Michelle crossing the finish line. |
Lookin' Strong! |
Joe Edgecombe &
Christina Evanson of Team Draggin' Tail Runners are done. |
The Blazing Rocking Chairs and the California Old Goats
celebrate. We be done! |
Dad & daughter with Steve after the finish. |
Yahoo! |
The medal tells all!
Official Day 6 race
coverage & more photos & videos at:
http://transrockies.com/
transrockiesrun/news/?p=286 |
Keith & Leslie Brodsky of Team Banff Trail Trash put on a
hilarious finish! |
Doug, Juliette Morgan & LT celebrating the finish! |
Whoo Hoo! |
LT & Michelle went for a run and spotted a bear up on the trails! |
LT just found heaven!
(the upper sign...) |
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Last
year I really bonked on the final 1,400' climb up from Avon aid
station near the 70 Interstate on up to the Beaver Creek Resort
finish line. This year I stomped up the 1,400' climb and never
had to stop to rest once! None of the young people behind me
ever passed me either! I had to wait for Steve for 13
minutes near the finish line. Hanz & Andy of Team Blazing
Rocking Chairs beat us on this stage by 3 minutes & 8 seconds,
but our total time for all 6 stages was an hour faster than theirs.
Click
HERE
to to link to several of the other racer's Transrockies blogs.
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Evening Banquet
and Awards Presentations at the Hyatt in Beaver Creek |
LT & Steve Harvey wearing "formal" Old Goat Runner's polo shirts. |
Tricia & Glen Bland Team Soulmates from Bakersfield, CA. |
Lambert, Nancy & Steve |
Joe Bob's parent's Bob & Pat Armstrong were aid station volunteers.
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John DiMeo, Mark Matyzic, Luciana, Michelle & Rafael. |
Michelle with Hal Koerner - 2 time Western States 100 winner. |
Doug & Michelle with their new buds, Nikki Kimball and Kami Semick of
The North Face Team. |
Doug, Luciana Cox, John DiMeo & Rafael. |
Josh from Solomon with Devon
Crosby-Helms and
Michelle |
Carl Perkins of Team XXL from Delaware, Devon Crosby-Helms
and Michelle rockin' on. |
Looks like they were having a blast! (Devon & team mate Caitlin
Smith were 1st overall in Open Women!) |
Carl and Michelle |
Elinor Fish, Managing Editor of TRAIL RUNNING
magazine (& recent 1st time mom!)
with Gordon Wright owner of OUTSIDEPR in San Francisco.
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Doug with Anita Ortiz and Katie Mazzia. They won Open Women last 1st
year, but Katie was injured for 09. |
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The California Old Goats and Team Kobuta. Japan ("The Little
Piggies") |
Kami Semick, Michelle and Cindy Honebein |
The Goats with Team The Lost Girls Heather & Chantal
from Vancouver, Canada |
Gore-Tex's Cynthia Amon awarding the daily King & Queen prize. |
Yoshiko
Jo introducing Japan's Fumie Sato to the crowd (Fumie speaks minimum
English). Fumie is the Asian 48 hour world record holder of
344 kilometers = 206 miles! |
The Flower People Team was 1st on the 6th day. |
Gore-Tex of Flagstaff' Arizona's Joe Bob Armstrong introduces fellow
Gore-Tex finisher Carl Perkins of Team XXL.
Determined Carl lost 40 lbs 2 years ago and 35 lbs this past year! |
When walking back to the Pines Lodge through Beaver Creek Resort we
spotted a bear! He went onto and across the ice rink (Yes - real
outdoor ice skating in the summer!) |
Saturday
morning
"GOODBYE
BEAVER CREEK RESORT"
until 2010! |
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This note from Cindy
Honebein really captures the spirit of the Transrockies race: I
gotta tell ya - All the hugs & enthusiastic greetings amongst the
returning runners made a huge impression on the new
folks. I heard several comments about that - "Wow! ...never
participated in any kind of event like this!...like some kind of a
family reunion...I'm hooked already & we haven't even started!"
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