AK’s Adventures

After yesterday’s Mt Disappointment 50 miler, I feel worse than I’ve felt after a race in a long time. If anything, I’m usually fine after a shower, food, and a good night’s sleep. Not only do I feel really beat up, I suffered from the biggest blister I’ve gotten ever in my life. I usually [...]

This past weekend, Catra worked at the SF Marathon expo at the Atalanta booth with the owner/founder Heather. While she was pushing skirts, I managed to catch some seminars conducted by Julie Fingar, Bart Yasso, and Dean Karnazes.

On Sunday, we volunteered to help new race directors Mike Palmer and Jennifer Ray at the Skyline 50K [...]

I’m very saddened to write that Jim Hutchinson, the Race Director for the Vermont 100 and President of the Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports has died of a heart attack.

2007 Vermont 100 Pre-race meeting.

Jim with the top female runners from 2007.

Jim w/ Dot Helling during 2005 Vermont 100.

I believe there was about 55 finishers out of 111 starters — that’s almost a 50% drop rate. The weather was warm, and the course was dry/dusty — especially compared to 2006 when I last ran it. No snow or any significant mud, and just a hint of smoke down around the Red House section. [...]

On Saturday July 26, 6 local ultrarunners will be joining up as Team John M Potter, MD, and attempting to cover at least 160 miles in 24 hours to raise money as part of the Relay for Life — the signature event for the American Cancer Society. John’s brother-in-law, Bill Ramsey is an accomplished runner, [...]

At 11:34 AM on Sunday morning, Catra and I crossed the finish line together, completing our 5th and 4th finishes respectively at the San Diego 100 Mile Endurance Run.  We spent close to 30 hours on the course — longer than any of our other previous races.  Not only did we run together, we also [...]

That’s my bib number, and also the number of times I will have attempted (and hopefully completed) the San Diego 100, which will be held this weekend.  This race is special to me in that it was my first undertaking at the 100 mile distance back in 2004.
It all started like this:
Date: 2004/10/11 Mon AM [...]

Well Done…to Catra for finishing her Ohlone solo 100 mile run — this year was #5 for her.
Well Done…is how I ended up after getting cooked in the 100+ degree temperatures out on the course.
The plan was for me to pace Catra the latter half of her solo 100, which consisted of 3X The Ohlone [...]

I’m headed up to NoCal to help Catra do her solo Ohlone 100 miler.  I’m supposed to meet up with her along the course for support, then pace her from around the half-way point, then we’ll eventually join up with the actual race to finish in her goal of around 34 hours.  Sounds pretty crazy, [...]

…at the 2008 Old Goats 50M/50K
Akos Konya (8:18:49) shattered David Dean and Ashley’s shared winning times from last year, as temperatures soared into the 90’s — both stats were entered in the record books.  Keira Henninger (9:08:10), who was second fastest last year, managed to do the same again, but became first overall female.  Ted [...]