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Doug Malewicki - age 69 Running Bio I have been trail running since 1998 and road running since the 70's. This was my 11th year of running in our local WTRS events (Winter Trail Run Series - 12K, 15K, 18K & 21K races scheduled on alternate weekends in the Cleveland National Forest See: www.bigbaztrailraces.com ). Did not care about running any ultras or even the tough annual Saddleback Mountain Marathon. THEN a bizarre series of events slowly changed that.... #1 - My daughter Michelle Barton gave birth to my new millennium granddaughter Sierra on January 19, 2000! I like to think that Sierra's name might have had something to do with my starting Michelle off with annual backpacking trips at a very early age. She loved our adventures in the Sierras. #2 - A few months after Sierra was born, I bought Michelle a baby jogger. I would visit her in Dana Point, CA once a week and we would go for a 4 or 5 mile walk around the neighborhood with little Sierra in the baby jogger. Several months latter we were running 2 or 3 blocks out of that 5 mile distance. Another few months later and we were running the entire route. I then started taking Michelle, Sierra and the baby jogger out on some of my favorite local trails - Laguna Sur, Aliso Woods, Badlands, Whiting Ranch. We pushed Sierra in her baby jogger up some amazingly steep and long hills. She loved it! People we encountered on some of these trails couldn't believe the three of us actually made it up some of those beasties!
#3 -
It is now 2002. I invited Michelle to join me in some of the Winter
Trail Run Series events. She had fun at the 18K in spite of never
having run 10 miles and then two weeks later she won a 3rd place overall
in the 21K (half marathon) event (in spite of never running 13 miles!).
#4 - Five years hence.... Michelle by pure will power, perseverance and a strict training regimen has made herself by into one of the top ultra runners in the country. In 2007 she won more ultras than any guy or gal in the USA! Set a lot of female course records in the process too. Four ultra course records in one single month!!
#5 - I observed all of this gradual development in her running talents and keep hearing from her admirers that she must have gotten her running genes from me. Huh? I think it is the other way around? Anyway, If she is that good, I conclude I should be able to take advantage of those genes and try running an ultra or two myself. ON March 27, 2004, the day before my 65th birthday, I finish my first 50K. www.sshs57.com/photos/040327SJT50k.htm A couple of months later ran the Shadow of the Giants 50k and knocked close to an hour off my time. Now it is 2008 and Transrockies sounds like a fun challenge! I have to mention that my daughter is currently known as the iMichelle - a rumor started by Charlie Nickell in his fun trail running blog www.TheRunDown.net. Charlie suspects she is actually an escaped ultra running robot prototype from the Apple factory. Sounds plausible - or maybe just that her training regimen is essentially a mini triathlon (swim, bike, run) every single day of her life (if she is not running a trail ultra). I have become iDad and Sierra, of course, is iSierra!
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STUFF: The first week of August I am bicycling with friends from San Francisco back home to Irvine, CA. 540 miles total down scenic Pacific Coast Highway 1 with camping at the Bike & Hikes. The hills along Big Sur are great quad developers. Should help for Transrockies. Heading to NZ on May 14th with Karen, my wife of almost 31 years, to visit daughter Kim and husband Steve in Muriwai - some 30 miles from Auckland and a 5 minute walk to the sea. Kim found a nearby trail race for me that I signed up for online. Am running the XTerra Trail 21K on May 18th. People over 60 are in the LEGENDS class. Don't know if I care much for that "distinguished" designation. Will be looking for trail runs in Melbourne and Sydney too. Doug
Malewicki is an inventor/engineer who has a MS in Aeronautical &
Astronautical engineering from Stanford University. Some of his more
noted inventions here:
Check out Doug's website of inventions www.canoSOARus.com to see other crazy, fun engineering stuff! www.UniModal.com and www.SkyTran.net represents my important current work.
I
have also been running my High school reunion website;
www.sshs57.com
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