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Western States Race Report

My race report follows.  Warning - It is long. 

Western States 2009 – Unexplored Resilience

Western States 2009 was epic.  Not because I had the race of my life (I didn’t) and not because I reached some higher consciousness (just a little confusion and inability to think); but because I went to new places with my mind and my body.  Places to which I had been fortunate enough not to visit previously.  As I write this, I am still digesting those places as well as evaluating my strengths / weaknesses that reared up over my 28 + hour journey.

I really cannot describe the phenomenon that is Western States.  The lead-up to Saturday morning is exhilarating, nerve wracking, and fantastic.  The buzz is electric – even the animals felt the energy of Squaw Valley.  Thursday morning, all four of the HURT runners and their respective crews hiked the 2,040 foot climb to the Escarpment for the flag planting ceremony at Emigrant Pass. 

The gathering was very nice, especially Cheryl sharing memories of Ed Fishman and his contribution to HURT and ultrarunning.   The afternoon was spent relaxing and going over gear, drop bags, and race plans.  We shared a great dinner and got a good night’s sleep. 

Friday was a series of weigh-ins, medical checks, goodie-gathering, drop bag depositing, and pre-race meetings.  It was an early dinner and early to bed for me.  Unfortunately, sleep wouldn’t come until about one hour prior to the alarm ringing to wake me!  I felt somewhat rested and very anxious to get going.  After checking in, we went to the start line and before I knew it, we were counting down the seconds to the start. 

The gun went off and 399 runners headed up the climb to the Escarpment.  I jogged until I felt my heart rate rising, and then walked the steep stuff.  The temperature was in the 50’s and I knew I should enjoy it while I could.  The forecasts were for blazing hot both days, so I knew that heart rate and body temperature both needed to be kept low and moderate or there would be trouble later.

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The Fire Cracker---The Other Story

While some of you (over 135 runners, and 30 volunteers) were out on the North Shore frollicing in the Heat, the world was still spinning.  I attache this article from this mornings paper. ..Kalapu Ulavale

Korean Missle Lands North Shore of Oahu

 

Honolulu, HI., July 5, 2009

By Pika Lololo Associate Correspondent, Local News.

 

 

For Semi Kalakalaeipu it one bad day for go surf.  Even before da bugga get into his stinky wet rash gard he go find he no can.  For Why?  Well brah, it cause da kine buggah live North Korea, went fire one super size bottle rocket which went come all da way hea.  Dat right, and it come down on Semi’s almost-new-wen-steal-town-side board he find abandoned jus last week in Wallace Chun’s garage.  Wallace one town side pake who never go use ‘em anyhow brah.  So Semi jus liberating the juise.

So Semi went put his board down in the sun for melt da wax, and then he busy with the manogi kine rash gard, when bang!  He hears one beg boom, and where his board was is now one big ass Korean Rocket Ship brah.  (For see da size look pectures)  For Semi dis one tramatic experience.  “I wen tru too much pilikia git da board, you know.  Now da kine Nort Korean pule, gone smash ‘em all up.  Dis one almost-new-wen-steal-town-side board brah. Git plenty meaning to my local heritage, and I no can replace, cept for da other one I go git Chun’s garage bumbye. 

  

 

Local Surfing Kahuna Ace Ka’amiloulo Fitzroy has condemned the North Korean attack.  “Dis just another one time when outsiders destroy our cultural artifacts.  What Semi gon do now.  Cos plenty gas go townside for night visit to Chun’s garage.  His almost-new-wen-steal-town-side board is a great loss to our cultural heritage; like all dah other stuff we went forget in da bush. Plus Semi no can sell da board to one stupid hauoli tourist fore Wallace and his gang buddies come northside lookin for thief went cockaroach his board. Jus another instance where locals suffer cause of outsider interference in our cultural heritage.”

 

Fitzroy, who one mainland lawyer who come north shore many years ago, smoke too much dope, and forget he married to wife with five kids, plans to file suit against the City and County, the State, the U.S. Government, and the North Korean Government for the loss of cultural artifacts, and the trama caused to the north shore surfing community.  “This one terrible event you know”, said Ka’amiloulo.  “When first happen Semi no believe da rocket wen hit his board, and he make beef wid all da braddahs on da beach for steal his almost-new-wen-steal-town-side board.  Plenty people git all bus up for that.  One blalah wen break Simi’s nose and two others cheap shot him when he on the ground.  Simi go suffer PTS.  Unlikely he ever be able to drive town side for cockaroach again you know.” 

  

Police finally arrived to assess the threat of the missle. They no aress nobody, take a few pictures and go to lunch.   Councilman Charlie Dejon has promised to seek passage of  a law against the landing of Korean Missles on the North Shore. “This is a matter that we can talk about for at least a year or two.   What if it had hit more than one board?  Did anyone pay a tax to land a missle on the North Shore? There are a whole host of inane issues we can debate that certainly come before how we pick up the trash or pay to have the roads paved.  Excuse me, I’m late for my political fund raiser.”

  

Right now it uncertain what to do with the missle which went stuck just outside Jamesons Bar.  In the mean time the bar has filled it with ice and is using it to cool beers over the holiday weekend. 


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Missle Impact! Dawn July 4, 2009 

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The Peril Close up


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Proof of Origan, as if we needed any!

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Wait!  Where did you say North Korea Is?

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Police were on the scene....until Lunch Time.



 

TrailRunner Ad: Wilderness Running Company

Aloha Everyone!!  I am so excited that the new TrailRunner is out and the Wilderness Running Company ad is on page TS 27.  It is on the bottom right hand corner of the page.  I took the picture of the trailhead and Tom Valdespino took a few photos that are on the website.  I hope I did HURT proud:)  Anyways, See you tomorrow at Firecracker!!! 

Bless,

Devon

California Running Adventure Report

Well I have finsihed my LONG report from my adventurous trip to California.  If you wish to read it is available here.  I would also like to extend a welcome home and a job well done for all who prepared for and tried their best at WS 100.  Aloha and E Komo Mai.  See you on Saturday.  Jah Bless.

Devon

Future Tour Champ Meets Lance Armstrong

Paul Hopwood sent this to me today. Very cool. Thanks Paul!

Here,s a short  inspirational video of a good friend of mine and his eight year old boy from Ca. whilst riding in the alps,(they,re over to follow the tour ) and crossed paths with Lance armstrong,who recorded it and put it on his blog . Maybe you could post it on the HURT site,as it,s pretty cool!

thanks Paul Hoppy.

While out training today, Liam and I met up with Lance Armstrong and rode with him over the Col de La Colombiere (what a day in the French Alps!)  I had been taking video for the last two days so I was taking a day off...Go figure.  Lance, however, was filming and posted a clip on the Livestrong website.  What a cool guy!!!  Allez Lance. http://www.livestrong.com/lance-armstrong/video/liamlivestrong-mp4/9b92cfee-9f90-4528-9e15-e722454f6151/ What an experience!!! 

Liam and I are thinking of ways that our blog could benefit kids in the pediatric Cancer Center in Orange County.

The Tour starts this Saturday.  Hope you guys can follow along!!!

www.fathersontour.com

Bill

WS 100: I GAVE MY ALL - "NO REGRETS"

START (SQUAW VALLEY): Saturday, June 27, 2009 @ 5:00:00 a.m.

FINISHED (AUBURN): Sunday, June 28, 2009 @ 9:23:11 a.m.

TOTAL DISTANCE: 100.2 MILES

TOTAL TIME (HRS):  28:23:11

RACE SUMMARY: AWESOME JOURNEY!!!

We trained hard, did all our homework & got ready for this race the best way we knew how.   I knew I had to be physically strong for this challenge & prayed unceasingly that my knees would hold up during the race('cos it's only been about 10 months ago that I had both my knees scoped).  The main concern for me was all the downhill running that this course was notorious for.  I knew I was ready for the climbs.  This time will also be the first time that I will be using a pacer only because I was not familiar with the course. 

Prerace, we all hung out & enjoyed ourselves taking in the race atmosphere and admiring the beautiful Squaw Valley scenery. We were able to do this only because we were staying at the Olympic Village Condominiums near the start line.  This proved to be the right move, especially on race day, where convenience triumphs everything else. I stayed calmed the next couple of days & only got a little nervous the night before the race, but I still managed to put in about 6 hours of good sleep.  Overall, the sequence of events on the race schedule were followed without any hiccups. 

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Bit of ultrarunning history

Story on the first OD 100 thirty years ago.

http://www.vhtrc.org/forum09/od1979.htm


Frank MacMillan

4th of July: Kaena Point Firecracker 10 Mile Race

Fliagfirework Show-up Saturday morning at least 30 minutes before the 7:00 a.m. start of the race and pay your $10 entry fee is all you need to do to run the Kaena Point Firecracker 10 Mile Race.

This is part of the H.U.R.T. Trail Series. In addition to the race, stick around for the post race potluck. Bring your favorite 4th of July dish to share. J0439251 We will have normal post-race fruit and drinks plus hot dogs, watermelon and lots of other tasty treats.

Bring a chair and your beach towel to cool off in the ocean after the race. If you want shade, you might want to bring a pop-up tent for after the race as there are no shade trees at the race start.

We will also be welcoming back the Hawaii Western States runners.

If you need more information like directions etc., please click here to read a previous post about the race.

We look forward to seeing you Saturday morning! As promised, no additional loops and we won't run the course in reverse. 

Aloha,

Bob & Barbi

Mohican 100 Mile Trail Race

Hey all,

I flew out to Loudonville, Ohio a couple of weekends ago (6/20-21) to pace a friend through the last 40 miles of the Mohican 100--her first 100 miler.  She says she wasn't feeling it at all, but still finished well in 27:28 and 32nd overall.  The trail was actually quite nice, and I'm just glad there weren't thunderstorms throughout the night.  Thanks to Big John for the pacing tips.  Here are some pictures from the weekend.  I wore my HURT shirt proudly!

 --Ryan

100_5988Mile 60.8 and about to begin pacing.

100_5993 Somewhere in the Ohio wilderness...

100_5997 Mile 75ish and still looking good!

100_5999 Covered bridge

100_6013 Made it through the night alive!

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Mile 100 and mission complete!

Vi's 2nd Annual Adventure Trek: September 20, 2009

OK, here we go again! Vi' Adventure Trek and Run, the second annual, will be held at Kualoa Ranch again, on Sept. 20, which is a Sunday. Below is the application, which needs to be sent to MDA. We had a lot of fun last year helping a great cause, and making Vi a very happy girl!

I will be organizing the volunteers again, so if anyone can help us out this year, please call me at 351-1453, or send your e-mail to hurtpals@aol.com. We need people to man the front gate, help as course marshals, help with the initial headquarters setup, cleanup, pick up of donated food and drinks the day before the race in town, and a few more things.

We are al looking forward to organizing this event again. We are promoting crazy costumes and an after race BYOP (bring your own picnic), although we will still supply snacks and lots of drinks as we did last year.

The application is available here for entrants. There is no late or race day entry so get those applications in early. The deadline is August 20th.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
PJ

Women's Winner, Anita Ortiz and another article

Here is a nice article on the Women's Western States 100 winner, Anita Ortiz. This is from the Vail Daily.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090628/SPORTS/906289981/1063

Here is another article from TrailRunningSoul.com
http://tinyurl.com/lhzmbt

Congratulations to W.S. Runners!

Congratulations to our Hawaii H.U.R.T. runners. We can't wait to hear the stories that go with these results.

Gil Loomis: 27:33
Marian Yasuda: 28:19
Ernest Tay: 28:33
Stephanie Jenkins had to drop. From what I have heard, she went up there and started the race knowing she had some on going injuries but still toed the line. Courageous and strong effort.

Results were at times challenging for some of us to get yesterday though others seemed to be able to track the runners easily. I am not sure the e-mail worked very well. I only got three e-mails on Stephanie and all three were exactly the same.

Come out to the Kaena Point Firecracker Race next Saturday and welcome the runners back. I am sure there will be some great stories to tell.

Full results can be seen here.

Western States 100 results

Does anyone have any information on the results of this year's Western States 100?  I signed up on their webcast for e-mails but never received anything about the race or the Hawaii runners.  Their webcast site didn't work at all this weekend.  Bummer.


Aloha,
Ed B.

Wilderness Running Company Ad

Aloha Everyone!!  I just wanted you all to know that the write up I helped with for the Wilderness Running Company is up on their website now.  If you look in the new TrailRunner magazine, coming out next week, the ad will feature a picture of the Tantalus trailhead and a link to their website.  It is an awesome feature and I hope you all enjoy.  If you wish to check it out click here and then click on the picture of Honolulu, or click on "the life" and then on Honolulu.  Anyways, hope you like it....talk story later.  Jah Bless.  Devon

Treck Loop(s) warm up

I will be going out about 7:00 am on Saturday morning to do a treck loop, perhaps more.  You are welcome to join me.  We will be visiting all the sites that Marv  enjoyed and loved, in hopes of selecting a proper site to place his memorial stool.   Water tank park at 7:00. aloha,  Mike Muench

Saturday 6/27 Evening Hiking (Good Luck WST Runners)

Pushing out around 4:00pm Saturday from the Waimanalo end of the Manuawili Trail.  Hiking, self supported, to the Grassy Knoll above Nuuanu then play with gear for additional training, cook (yes cook) a meal, rest and then return ending in Maunawili via Manuawili Falls Trail junction.

Easy pace at about 3 mph.  Flashlights and food, water and supplies for about 18 hours of total time.  Assume rain.  I'll also show a movie on my iPhone during dinner!

Good luck to all at WST 100!!!

Contact me if interested, and for more information.  Paul (497-3911)

H.U.R.T. Runners and Pacers at Western States

This photo is from Marian's sister Sarah.

HURT

H.U.R.T. 100 Application Announcement

Aloha Runner's

The H.U.R.T 100 Application for the 10th anniversary event will go live on 8/1/09. In the next few weeks we will be posting the race booklet and selection guidelines for the event.

Stay tuned.

Aloha,

John and Jeff

Saturday Training/Western States weekend

Aloha Athletes !

With most everyone's focus on our tough HURT runners at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run this Saturday, it seemed like a good plan to make it a "day off" from organized training. The Western States 100 has a nice tracking system, making it very easy to follow your favorites. So, take a well-deserved day off and get ready for next weekend's 4th of July Kaena Point Firecracker 10 Mile to be held on Saturday, July 4. Bob & Barbie McAllaster have a fun event planned. See ya there !   Don

Holcomb Valley 33 Miler and AC 100 Night Training Run


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Well I amCaliforniaRunningAdventure 114 back from my California Running Adventure and it couldn't have been better:)  Holcomb Valley 33 Miler on June 14th in Big Bear Lake, California had to have been the most challenging for my lungs.  The whole course is above 7000' and I sure felt it.  I showed up 1.5 hours before race start and it was about 30 degrees.  It warmed up to about maybe 70 degrees by the end of the race.  I finished in 8:45.  The course had 7000' elevation gain and loss and was pretty much runnable the whole way....if you are used to running at that altitude:)  It was a great training run for AC 100.  The highlight of my trip was running on the PCT during the race,  it was just awesome.  I then hopped over to Wrightwood, CA where the start of the AC 100 will be in September and camped there with my mom and step-dad.  On June 20th I did the AC 100 Night Training Run, which consisted of the final 26 miles of the course, from Chantry Flats to Loma Alta Park, Altadena, CA.  We carpooled from the park and went high up into the mountains where you could see forever.  I rode with co-race director Hal Winton.  We then started at 1900 and ran for a while until it got dark which was about an hour and 4 miles in.  It was a different experience running at night mostly by yourself in unfamiliar territory, in bear and cougar country.  I was like, "I am definitley not in Hawaii anymore."  I got to mile 14 at the top of Sam Merrill and my knee started to hurt.  I ran walked the next 4 miles and could not continue to injure myself, thus I walked the last 8 miles in 3 hours or so.  I finished the run in 9.5 hours at 0430 in the morning.  And there was Hal Winton, Dave, and Dave waiting for me to make sure that the Hawaii runner did not get eaten:)  All in all it was a great experience and a wonderful way to spend three weeks in California and great prep fpr AC 100.  I did get a little injured but the doctor just said to take it easy for a couple weeks, also I did come back with a bad case of Psoriasis, not poison oak. But,  I will talk more on my blog about my trip later.  Jah Bless.. .....Devon Webb                                   

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