Michelle Barton - 2nd place female in the Leona Divide 50 mile trail race
with her dad Doug Malewicki - 4th place in the Spring Chicken 28.5 mile race!
 

I never heard of this Spring Chicken race for 60 year olds and above until my super 70at70 pacer friend, Kirk Fortini, mentioned it near the end of our Day 3.  Well this could be fun and Michelle had a free entry from coming in 1st in age last year.  Let's do it!

I ended up 4th overall in 6:24:34 and was the first 70 year old or older to finish.

Ready to RACE! Michelle, Beiyi Zheng & Linda Fox in Palmdale on Friday night.	Pre race.  Kirk Fortini, Spring Chicken Doug, Michelle Barton & Eric Lumba	By the time I could turn the camera on, Michelle was past and disappearing fast!
Michelle on the trail	Doug cruising along	Conrad Daniel (age 60 was 2nd place Spring Chicken in 6:15:54) with Leigh "Turbo" Corbin
Doug getting extra energy from Turbo using the Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld technique!	Doug (70) and Bill Dickey (69) cross paths on the Leona trails	View of Lake Hughes from up on the trail.
Tracy Moore & Michelle high fiving around mile 18.	Wow!  Here comes Krissy Moehl blasting the final downhill to the finish.	Tracy Moore was 2nd place & finished in ?
Spring Chicken results for the top 6.	Michelle Barton was 2nd female and 9th overall in 8:14.	The top two ladies Krissy Moehl was 3rd overall and 1st female in 7:25:37 - a new female course record.  She is here with Michelle and Race Director - Glenda Kimmerly.
Kyle Young placed ? in a time of ?	Bill Ramsey, Michelle and Lorraine Gersitz (54)	Michelle with Greg Hardesty

This is the elevation profile for the Spring Chicken race.    The Garmin GPS said we climbed a total of 4,317'.   A GPS yields incredibly interesting data and 3D Google Earth views after I upload it into www.motionbased.com.

This is a Google Earth 3D view of our 28.5 mile run. I added all the notations.   What awesome technology! You can get a free download of Google Earth 5.0 at: http://earth.google.com

Click on: Leona Divide Flyby Tour (takes 2 steps)  and wait for Google Earth to open, then zoom down from orbit to the view that shows the red outline of the Spring Chicken 28.5 mile course.  Once it stabilizes, click on the Video Tour Button shown on the left.  This will start the animation and bring up the control bar.   The view during the animation will give you a great 3D feel for the mountains and valleys we traversed.

Transrockies Race Summary:

Leona Divide:

28.5 miles 4/09