100 milers Jess and Bill:
The weather was hot at noon on Friday when Jess and Bill started their 100 mile ordeal. Neither finished the race but to quote Bill (who had knee problems 50 + miles into it) “I’ve had a good season so I’m not going to let it bother me.” A good season? Winning the Vancouver 100? That’s a great season.
Jess made it to mile 75 before having to drop. Too much road-like running (logging roads) not enough trails. This is the farthest she’s ever run and definitely a great personal success. And of course big thanks goes to her night-crew: PRR’s finest- Dave M and Mike S - , plus Michelle from Fat Ass. (Editor’s note: Hey Dave, I ran part of that trail in the daylight - can’t imagine running it at night - these people are crazy.)
50 milers Ellie and Sukhi:
Different story on the weather. Ellie was 2nd overall and First woman! completing the course in 8:19:07
Sukhi completed in 9:59:25. Under 10 - that’s all that matters.
Relays:
John Susan & Terry came third in the relay division - somewhere around 7:20. Well done.
Bill P, Len, Monique, Premica, Nicki, Grant & Laura finished around 8:34:25 -thirty seconds ahead of…
…Dan, Karen, Lan, Dianna (ran 2 legs), Shi-Ling & Dean. 8:34:55
Those who ran leg 5 were the luckiest because they got to hang out at exchange 4 - undoubtedly the best exchange on the course because it was staffed by…
Volunteers:
…Bettie, Sally, Lynne, Paul B and Judi. Thanks volunteers. You were out there in the rain longer than the relayers (not as long as our “soloists”) and didn’t have the advantage of running to stay warm. Always wonderful to see familiar faces when you’re out there cursing the weather and the damned HILLS.
It felt like a PRR social in the Brennan Park parking lot. 18 club members stuck around to cheer on the finishers and enjoy the picnic brought to you by Memphis Blues (if Dave had known that he might have waited 14 hours) and awards ceremony. .
From all reports the runners unanimously enjoyed the event - even with the rain. Sign me up for next year. I might even train for it. (The relay I mean. Let’s not get carried away!) Plus I have witnesses who will testify that John said he’s thinking 50 mile.
Bettie’s pics: http://www.flickr.
Sukhi’s pics: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=yn11xjc.beqpvy20&x=0&y=-pqeb6u&localeid=en_US
Sally’s pics: http://www.flickr.
Lynne’s pics: http://www.flickr.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm What a great performance by all! Congratulations all around, and thanks to Volunteers who support our silly habits. John, fantastic job of team handi-capping and team captains, for leg assignments, to bring our two teams in at about a minute apart after 50 miles! I think it amounts to about 0.2% difference! Of course the JETS got all the best people who weren’t running it solo, and blew the rest of us away, but sure made PRR look good. Terrific job. Ellie, another amazing finish. Hope you saved us something for Hood to Coast. How many legs would you like to run? Just three seems so puny now. You can have a couple of mine if you like. Jess and Bill - great courage and a great effort -and kudos for the wisdom to know when it was over. Sukhi, is starting to look like our club ironman when you consider that he just keeps running every race that comes along. Next year, I’m going after you big time for H2C!!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm Results are now up on the website http://homepage.mac.com/designr2/stormy/ along with more photos Big thank you to all the volunteers who did an awesome job and it was such motivation to have everyone cheering on at the aid stations :)