Here's a good one if you're a fan of the long day-- start at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, run nine-plus miles down to the Colorado River and ascend some 14 miles up the other side to the North Rim, and then come back. What's it all about? Well, it depends on your perspective. A seasoned mountain runner might say it's no big deal, that it's really just...
The annual 50 mile run, part of the ever growing Leadville race series, was on Sunday. Surging in popularity and now in its third year, more than 300 runners filled out the field, including Christy, who has now run the high altitude course every time. Falling a week after the Hardrock, where she crewed for me, I sat this one out and took the opportunity to return the favor. Unlike...
The 2010 Hardrock 100 is done and now, a week later, I'm still trying to put it all together. In the days that followed, as I embraced my "recovery", mostly in the form of sitting on the couch and watching repeats of the days Tour de France leg, I fought the urge to procrastinate and attempted to post something about the event. But as I sat with my laptop open,...
Astronomically speaking, Monday the 21st was the longest day of the year, but for about 200 runners, Saturday's annual San Juan Solstice 50 Miler in Lake City marked the real beginning of summer. Blue skies, dry trails and resulting dry feet contributed to a record number of finishers (results here) and a near course record by 18-year old winner Dakota Jones, who covered the mountainous course with nearly 13,000 feet...
"...and you can do more than you think you can.”- Ken Chlouber, Leadville 100 Race Director [Christy here] That was just one of the many over-used motivational quotes that Chlouber repeated during the somewhat evangelistic pre-race meeting the morning before the 2009 Leadville 100 trail run. In the time leading up to the race I had some skepticism, I wasn’t so sure what Leadville 100 had in store for me,...
**Update- She's finished, around 25:40 smiling, 7th woman overall. **Update- Christy's doing great, left Twin Lakes Aid station at 6:10 pm, 40 miles to go--ahead of schedule!! On a late August morning back in 2002, Christy and I trudged up the road towards Leadville. After tagging along with my friend and his crew for much of the day, my friend dropped from the race, leaving me without support. Christy was...
Despite the worst weather in weeks, Sunday's 2nd Annual Leadville Silver Rush 50 miler will go in the books as another "good day" for Christy and Kathy Fry. Rain at the start thankfully passed as the gun went off and things were pretty dry for the first half of the race. Taking the morning to reorganize, the weather returned seven hours later in the form of a potent hail/lightning/thunder combo....
The race was awesome. Reflecting on it briefly here, a few things stick out-- I improved on my prior 2007 time, cutting off 1:16, with a good amount of credit due to meeting my goal of getting through aids stops faster. A crash in the early parts slowed me down for a bit, a simplified strategy for food and fluids worked better than my mixed menu last time and the...
The Hardrock 100 starts tomorrow at 6am, and with any luck could be over sometime Saturday. How will it go? Well, there's so much to this race, so many variables and unknowns that it's impossible to say for sure, until it's over. So I have to fall back on the cliche for my answer-- it's hard telling, not knowing. I pulled into Silverton right on time this morning, about twenty...
Christy and I have run the San Juan Solstice 50 two times now and decided we wanted to try something new. So in place of the Lake City, Colorado race, with it's huge vertical gains and high elevations, we ventured to a different 50 miler we had long heard of, in northern Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. The Bighorn Wild & Scenic race weekend offers up a 30K, 50K, 50 mile and...
We met in Aspen in 2000 and have been happily stuck in the rockies ever since, getting out in the mountains every day we can, in every season and by all means possible. Read More
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