Cunningham will be open from 0600 Saturday July 15th until around 0300 Sunday
July 16th. And we are a little short on staff. Dale is considering offering a
lottery ticket for a 12 hour shift working the station. Anybody out there
interested?? Please, let me know if so.
   It is raining again and the trees are soaking it up, looking good! It would be
alright with me if this drought was over.
   Keep in Touch,
   LMac


When I was a child in Silverton, one of the older boys
started calling me Skunk Ears.  I went to my father pouting
about it.  He told me skunks have cute ears.  That made
everything o.k., and the boy stopped using the name.

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Bummer, Jeff.. I am truly sorry to hear you can't come up. It will not be
the same without you and the studly Toby up here in the mountains.    We're
mostly all falling apart at the seams to some degree.. sorry this one isn't
healing up fast enough to warrant the trip up to the San Juans.

deb pero


On 7/5/06, Klondike4@... <Klondike4@...> wrote:
>
>    Due to the cumulative effects of aging/running/living/etc. a persistent
>
> case of tendonitis in my knee has forced my withdrawal from this yrs
> event. As such, I have a room reserved at the Avon from the 8th to the
> 15th that is up for grabs - anyone interested email me back and I will
> call the avon. Thanks and good luck to all - Jeff Wilbur
>
> "Life is too important to be taken seriously" Oscar Wilde
>
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Thanks Deb -

Once again the hardock gods have kicked me in the ass, this time before
I even got there, well hopefully it helps you get in! at least some
good can come out of it - and so, best of luck to both you and steve
this year, I'll be anxiously following the webcast and cheering y'all
on!

Take care - Jeff, in big time San Juan withdrawel
"Life is too important to be taken seriously" Oscar Wilde


-----Original Message-----
From: Deb Pero <mtnrunner02@...>
To: hr100@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:59:04 -0600
Subject: Re: [hr100] Room available at Avon

           Bummer, Jeff.. I am truly sorry to hear you can't come up. It
will not be
   the same without you and the studly Toby up here in the mountains.
We're
   mostly all falling apart at the seams to some degree.. sorry this one
isn't
  healing up fast enough to warrant the trip up to the San Juans.


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Dr. Tyler Curiel, (a multiple time finisher of the HRH) and his wife Dr. Ruth
Berrgern will be speaking July 12, Wednesday evening at 7:30 about their
experiences evacuating Charity Hospital because of Hurricaine Katrina. They both
live and work in New Orleans and will be pleased to share their experience with
you should you honor them by attending.

   Keep in Touch,
   LMac


Keep in Touch,
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That would be at the Kendal Mnt. Rec. Center.

Lois MacKenzie <skunkears@...> wrote:          Dr. Tyler Curiel, (a
multiple time finisher of the HRH) and his wife Dr. Ruth Berrgern will be
speaking July 12, Wednesday evening at 7:30 about their experiences evacuating
Charity Hospital because of Hurricaine Katrina. They both live and work in New
Orleans and will be pleased to share their experience with you should you honor
them by attending.

Keep in Touch,
LMac

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Hi all,
I lost one of my pacers (from Ouray to Grouse Gulch) this morning, so
if anyone out there wants to pace me that section, that would be great!

E-mail me directly and I can give more details!

Thank you!
Carol Gerber
720.332.5459 - W
303.987.2367 - H

Hi Everybody,
       Here is something from someone in the know. Let the sunshine in!!





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Hey All....

I e-mailed Dale yesterday about the forecast cause I was unable to
post to the list.  It seems I can now.

Being a meteorologist working at NOAA in Boulder, with the latest and
greatest of technology to see into the future, I was able to pull some
levers and push some buttons for a great forecast this weekend.  It
also helps to have a brand new crystal ball (the old one was getting
kinda of cloudy).

Anyway, the forecast looks great for the run.  Things are already
drying out from the soggy weekend there (and here along the Front
Range).  Highs will range in the mid-70's to even near 80 down below
(Ouray, Telluride, Silverton) for the weekend.  Lows in the low 40's
at night.

Up high, highs in the low to mid 60's (50's on Handies), and lows will
be cold up high (upper 20's to low 30's).

Of course, still expect afternoon thunderstorms and/or showers up high
all weekend.

It looks like the drenchfest of late has been shut off, at least for
the run.

Hope to see you all this week.

Enjoy the change!

Dale Perry

Hi folks,

I have recently uploaded my GPS track from the 2004 race (same direction as this
year's race) into the Google Earth Community bulletin board.  If you have Google
Earth (NFI), you can view the course the runners will be doing.

I am missing some of the first seven miles because I filled up the GPS's track
log space and it started overwriting the earliest waypoints points in the track
log:
http://tinyurl.com/nn7co

Good luck to this year's runners who should just be getting started about now.

Russ

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On behalf of the entire Hardrock Hundred staff I would just like to say
thanks to all of you for spending time in the San Juans and making this years
run so successful. For those of you who weren't there, we had more finishers
than we ever had before (81), our first 70 year old finisher (John DeWalt), no
major emergencies or lost runners and a great atmosphere.
       I have talked with many of our volunteers and they have been so
impressed with how appreciative and friendly all of the runners are. I also
had a chance to visit with many of the merchants and shop owners in Silverton
and they echoed that sentiment. The town of Silverton loves the Hardrock!
       For those interested, the 2007 Hardrock will be run in the counter clock
wise direction starting on July 13th, 2007!
Happy trails!
Dale Garland
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

Chris, I am forwarding your photos on to the hr100@yahoogroups.com  site. It is
where we all get our HRH fix through out the year.

Chris Gerber <chris@...> wrote:  Hi all,

It was a good time working with everyone last Friday!   The photos I was
taking throughout the day are posted here:

http://www.chrisgerber.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=146

All 428 of them...  most are of the runners, I tried to get a few of
(almost) everyone.

Thanks,
  - Chris






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I collected the Hardrock drop bags that were not claimed by 3 PM on
Sunday afternoon at the Sillverton gym.

In a few days, I'll sort through them and mail their "valuables" to
each runner that I can identify.  I'll use the criteria that, if it
were my stuff, would I pay postage to have it mailed to me.

"Valuables" do not include the following:  batteries, food items
(including gels and bars), fluids in bottles, pills, soggy socks,
plastic bags, and other other such items.

"Valuables" do include clothing items (if in good shape), packs,
flashlights and head lamps (without batteries), Gnass bags,
prescription eye ware, and the like.

If you want to make specific requests different from the above,
please contact me before Friday.  I'll use the mailing address that
you put on your Hardrock entry form unless you provide different
instructions.

Thanks,

Charlie
thorn@...
505-662-2397 - h
505-665-0724 - w

Hardrock results are posted to http://www.hardrock100.com/index.asp
The Hardrock 100 mile run is held on mountain trails starting and finishing in
Silverton, Colorado on a loop course through Telluride and Ouray and over 14,048
ft Handies Peak.  The race has 33,000 feet of climb, a series of 11 mountain
passes mostly at altitudes of 10,000 to 13,000 feet.  Temperatures ranged from
20's to 80's F (-5C to 30C).  There was very little snow this year.  Of the 131
runners selected by lottery and meeting qualifications (finishing another
mountain 100 miler), 81 finished within the 48 hour cutoff.  The race started
Friday July 14 at 6:00 AM and ended 6:00 AM Sunday.

You will notice a blank where my finish time would normally go.  Unofficially it
was 48:06:58.  My troubles started with the warm and sunny weather on the climbs
to Oscar's Pass and Virginius Pass during the first afternoon.  Being from
Florida, I like warm and sunny, but so did the swarms of flies that tortured me
as I climbed.  I went as hard as I could just to get away from them.  But the
result of prolonged hard breathing at high altitude is fluid accumulation in the
lungs, a precursor to pulmonary edema.  The vertical mile from Ouray at 10:30 PM
to Engineer Pass at 5:30 AM was less than half the 2000 ft/hr rate of ascent I
had been doing in training at similar altitudes.  All the runners I passed on
the earlier climbs were easily passing me back as I coughed up the gunk in my
lungs.  When I arrived at Grouse Gulch (58 miles) at 7 AM, I was 2 hours behind
my planned arrival time. I tried to eat but could not create saliva, so I rested
another 2 hours until my appetite
  returned.  I knew I would go nowhere if I couldn't eat.

I summitted Handies Peak at 12:20 PM in last place, climbing at 1500 ft/hr, but
after descending I felt really strong for the rest of the day with no more lung
problems.  But I knew I would have to push it to make the cutoffs.  My next
problem was the new section between Maggie Gulch (mile 85) and Cunningham Gulch
(mile 91).  I did not know until the day before the race that this route had
been changed, when I compared my old map with the master map at race
headquarters.  So I saw it for the first time at night.  I was miles from any
other runners.  The new route traversed two 13,000 ft mountains, descending to
the top of Stony Pass in the middle.  I could not see the mountains I was
climbing.  I blindly followed the reflective metal markers every 100 yards
across open tundra and rocks.  Sometimes the metal tags were edge on, and I
wasted lots of time looking for them, scanning with my flashlight and continuing
by dead reckoning when I couldn't see them.  I used my map,
  orienting it to the north star.  I made the 2:00 AM Cunningham cutoff by 7
minutes and wasted no time there.

The last section was a miserable, grueling 3000 foot climb in the first 2 miles,
but at least it was familiar.  But now the hallucinations started.  They always
do after two nights without sleep.  The hallucinations were mostly internal. 
When I took a drink of Coke from my water bottle, it was not me who took the
drink, but another person inside my body.  The other people inside me controlled
my legs separately, causing me to stumble over rocks and weave off the trail,
which had steep drops on one side.  They intruded with random thoughts,
fragments of vivid dreams, trying to distract me from the goal of getting back
to Silverton.  During the climb I found another runner huddled in a blanket, his
pacer explaining he was unable to move.  He had left Cunningham 3 hours earlier.
I stepped over him, unconcerned with his troubles.

The climb took 2 hours, leaving 2 to go.  The first mile of downhill trail above
treeline was too steep and rocky to run, and took 45 minutes.  When I reached
the jeep road, I ran hard 2000 vertical feet to the bottom, leaving 32 minutes
to run the last 3.6 miles of muddy trail to the finish.  The third dawn
refreshed me.  I felt like I was running a 5K race.  My legs felt great, but in
the end just weren't fast enough.  My watch said 6:00 as I passed the ski hut
entering town, 0.6 miles to go.

I am not sure how I would have done it differently.  I spent three weeks
altitude training in Leadville at 10,200 ft elevation, climbing to 14,000 almost
every day that the weather permitted.  I ran two high-altitude marathons in the
last two weeks for training.  The day after each race, I climbed Mt. Elbert, the
highest mountain in Colorado at 14,440 ft.  My legs were never tired.  I ate
massive quantities of food, especially protein, at every meal and lost several
pounds.  I took two rest days before Hardrock.

I ran Hardrock with no crew, no pacer, and no drop bags, even though these are
allowed.  I carried a two bottle waist pack and tied extra warm clothing around
my waist when I wasn't wearing it: a polyester shirt, polypro shirt, jacket,
nylon long pants over shorts, knit hat, wool gloves.  I had a 7 Luxeon-LED light
(4 AA batteries changed nightly), 4-LED backup light, and 8 extra AA batteries. 
When it was warm I drank most of my water from streams (untreated) to stay
hydrated.  The 12 aid stations had great food: M&Ms, potato chips, turkey
sandwiches, cheese eggs, spaghetti, macaroni, pumpkin pie, shrimp and dip,
orange slices, chicken soup, Succeed, Coke, and Mt. Dew.  I ate everything and
never had any nausea.  In training I had been rotating 3 pairs of shoes and
selected the most comfortable for the race, 8 oz. Nike Zooms without socks. 
They dried fairly quickly after the frequent stream crossings.  I had no
blisters for most of the run, then only minor ones at the end
  that did not interfere with running.

I am back in Florida now, elevation 17 ft.  My feet are swollen.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@...

Friends,

I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything... (and I surely do hope I'm not
out of line here, but I can't help it because Dale is a friend and I do
stuff like this for my friends)...

...I was thinking all along it was common knowledge among Hardrockers
following this past weekend... but maybe not.

My wife and I met Dale in the Durango Airport Monday evening.  He was on his
way to Omaha, NE.  His father-in-law had passed away during our Run on
Saturday.

Maybe he really and truly did NOT tell anyone, and maybe he wanted it that
way... but...

...to my way of thinking...

...the very very least we all could and (I think) should do...

...is send a sympathy card, yes?

We all, after all, at the "Pot Lick" signed one for Jim Sweatt regarding his
father's passing (which is why Jim suddenly had to leave Silverton after
having just arrived maybe one day before).  So anyway, I think we should
also extend the same sympathy, and courtesy, and heartfelt appreciation to
Dale himself.

We'd be pretty lost without him, don't you think?

Anyway, he is our friend, and his father-in-law, by extension, is our
patriarch as well.

I never met him, but I miss him...

...because my friend Dale misses him...

...and I'd like my friend to know...

...his friends...

...grieve at his side...

...right along with him.


Let's do the right thing.

Carolyn?  Andrea?  Does somebody on the HRH Board have a postal address to
which we can mail cards and condolences???

Thanks,

Rich Limacher
TheTroubadour@...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Garland" <hardrock100@...>
To: <hr100@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 4:35 PM
Subject: [hr100] Thanks for a great run!


>       On behalf of the entire Hardrock Hundred staff I would just like to
say
> thanks to all of you for spending time in the San Juans and making this
years
> run so successful. For those of you who weren't there, we had more
finishers
> than we ever had before (81), our first 70 year old finisher (John
DeWalt), no
> major emergencies or lost runners and a great atmosphere.
>       I have talked with many of our volunteers and they have been so
> impressed with how appreciative and friendly all of the runners are. I
also
> had a chance to visit with many of the merchants and shop owners in
Silverton
> and they echoed that sentiment. The town of Silverton loves the Hardrock!
>       For those interested, the 2007 Hardrock will be run in the counter
clock
> wise direction starting on July 13th, 2007!
> Happy trails!
> Dale Garland
> Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

For those of you who think your soggy smelly socks DO indeed fall into the
"valuable" category, remember that there are those postal regulations that
prevent Charlie from mailing anything "potentially hazardous" in the US
Mail. And your soggy socks, if anything like mine, are a definite
biohazard. Sorry folks, no smelly socks in the mail.   I had to get the
HazMat suit out to empty out our drop bags.

smiles from Silverton,
deb


On 7/18/06, Charles T. Thorn <thorn@...> wrote:
>
>    I collected the Hardrock drop bags that were not claimed by 3 PM on
> Sunday afternoon at the Sillverton gym.
>
> In a few days, I'll sort through them and mail their "valuables" to
> each runner that I can identify. I'll use the criteria that, if it
> were my stuff, would I pay postage to have it mailed to me.
>
> "Valuables" do not include the following: batteries, food items
> (including gels and bars), fluids in bottles, pills, soggy socks,
> plastic bags, and other other such items.
>
> "Valuables" do include clothing items (if in good shape), packs,
> flashlights and head lamps (without batteries), Gnass bags,
> prescription eye ware, and the like.
>
> If you want to make specific requests different from the above,
> please contact me before Friday. I'll use the mailing address that
> you put on your Hardrock entry form unless you provide different
> instructions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
> thorn@... <thorn%40lanl.gov>
> 505-662-2397 - h
> 505-665-0724 - w
>
>


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Matt,
You ran very well. My congrats to you for completing the course.It is
too bad you missed the final cutoff by a sliver, but you still ran a
hard, honest run.

Your Hardrock 2006 quest was, in my estimation, a total success.

Jennifer Roach

Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Hardrock results are posted to http://www.hardrock100.com/index.asp
> The Hardrock 100 mile run is held on mountain trails starting and finishing in
Silverton, Colorado on a loop course through Telluride and Ouray and over 14,048
ft Handies Peak.  The race has 33,000 feet of climb, a series of 11 mountain
passes mostly at altitudes of 10,000 to 13,000 feet.  Temperatures ranged from
20's to 80's F (-5C to 30C).  There was very little snow this year.  Of the 131
runners selected by lottery and meeting qualifications (finishing another
mountain 100 miler), 81 finished within the 48 hour cutoff.  The race started
Friday July 14 at 6:00 AM and ended 6:00 AM Sunday.
>
> You will notice a blank where my finish time would normally go.  Unofficially
it was 48:06:58.  My troubles started with the warm and sunny weather on the
climbs to Oscar's Pass and Virginius Pass during the first afternoon.  Being
from Florida, I like warm and sunny, but so did the swarms of flies that
tortured me as I climbed.  I went as hard as I could just to get away from them.
But the result of prolonged hard breathing at high altitude is fluid
accumulation in the lungs, a precursor to pulmonary edema.  The vertical mile
from Ouray at 10:30 PM to Engineer Pass at 5:30 AM was less than half the 2000
ft/hr rate of ascent I had been doing in training at similar altitudes.  All the
runners I passed on the earlier climbs were easily passing me back as I coughed
up the gunk in my lungs.  When I arrived at Grouse Gulch (58 miles) at 7 AM, I
was 2 hours behind my planned arrival time. I tried to eat but could not create
saliva, so I rested another 2 hours until my appetite
>  returned.  I knew I would go nowhere if I couldn't eat.
>
> I summitted Handies Peak at 12:20 PM in last place, climbing at 1500 ft/hr,
but after descending I felt really strong for the rest of the day with no more
lung problems.  But I knew I would have to push it to make the cutoffs.  My next
problem was the new section between Maggie Gulch (mile 85) and Cunningham Gulch
(mile 91).  I did not know until the day before the race that this route had
been changed, when I compared my old map with the master map at race
headquarters.  So I saw it for the first time at night.  I was miles from any
other runners.  The new route traversed two 13,000 ft mountains, descending to
the top of Stony Pass in the middle.  I could not see the mountains I was
climbing.  I blindly followed the reflective metal markers every 100 yards
across open tundra and rocks.  Sometimes the metal tags were edge on, and I
wasted lots of time looking for them, scanning with my flashlight and continuing
by dead reckoning when I couldn't see them.  I used my map,
>  orienting it to the north star.  I made the 2:00 AM Cunningham cutoff by 7
minutes and wasted no time there.
>
> The last section was a miserable, grueling 3000 foot climb in the first 2
miles, but at least it was familiar.  But now the hallucinations started.  They
always do after two nights without sleep.  The hallucinations were mostly
internal.  When I took a drink of Coke from my water bottle, it was not me who
took the drink, but another person inside my body.  The other people inside me
controlled my legs separately, causing me to stumble over rocks and weave off
the trail, which had steep drops on one side.  They intruded with random
thoughts, fragments of vivid dreams, trying to distract me from the goal of
getting back to Silverton.  During the climb I found another runner huddled in a
blanket, his pacer explaining he was unable to move.  He had left Cunningham 3
hours earlier.  I stepped over him, unconcerned with his troubles.
>
> The climb took 2 hours, leaving 2 to go.  The first mile of downhill trail
above treeline was too steep and rocky to run, and took 45 minutes.  When I
reached the jeep road, I ran hard 2000 vertical feet to the bottom, leaving 32
minutes to run the last 3.6 miles of muddy trail to the finish.  The third dawn
refreshed me.  I felt like I was running a 5K race.  My legs felt great, but in
the end just weren't fast enough.  My watch said 6:00 as I passed the ski hut
entering town, 0.6 miles to go.
>
> I am not sure how I would have done it differently.  I spent three weeks
altitude training in Leadville at 10,200 ft elevation, climbing to 14,000 almost
every day that the weather permitted.  I ran two high-altitude marathons in the
last two weeks for training.  The day after each race, I climbed Mt. Elbert, the
highest mountain in Colorado at 14,440 ft.  My legs were never tired.  I ate
massive quantities of food, especially protein, at every meal and lost several
pounds.  I took two rest days before Hardrock.
>
> I ran Hardrock with no crew, no pacer, and no drop bags, even though these are
allowed.  I carried a two bottle waist pack and tied extra warm clothing around
my waist when I wasn't wearing it: a polyester shirt, polypro shirt, jacket,
nylon long pants over shorts, knit hat, wool gloves.  I had a 7 Luxeon-LED light
(4 AA batteries changed nightly), 4-LED backup light, and 8 extra AA batteries. 
When it was warm I drank most of my water from streams (untreated) to stay
hydrated.  The 12 aid stations had great food: M&Ms, potato chips, turkey
sandwiches, cheese eggs, spaghetti, macaroni, pumpkin pie, shrimp and dip,
orange slices, chicken soup, Succeed, Coke, and Mt. Dew.  I ate everything and
never had any nausea.  In training I had been rotating 3 pairs of shoes and
selected the most comfortable for the race, 8 oz. Nike Zooms without socks. 
They dried fairly quickly after the frequent stream crossings.  I had no
blisters for most of the run, then only minor ones at the end
>  that did not interfere with running.
>
> I am back in Florida now, elevation 17 ft.  My feet are swollen.
>
> -- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@...
>
>
>
>
>
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>

Thanks.  It was fun anyway.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@...

----- Original Message ----
From: Jennifer Roach <jrhigh@...>
To: hr100@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 10:07:15 AM
Subject: Re: [hr100] Hardrock 100 DNF report

Matt,
You ran very well. My congrats to you for completing the course.It is
too bad you missed the final cutoff by a sliver, but you still ran a
hard, honest run.

Your Hardrock 2006 quest was, in my estimation, a total success.

Jennifer Roach

Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Hardrock results are posted to http://www.hardrock100.com/index.asp
> The Hardrock 100 mile run is held on mountain trails starting and finishing in
Silverton, Colorado on a loop course through Telluride and Ouray and over 14,048
ft Handies Peak.  The race has 33,000 feet of climb, a series of 11 mountain
passes mostly at altitudes of 10,000 to 13,000 feet.  Temperatures ranged from
20's to 80's F (-5C to 30C).  There was very little snow this year.  Of the 131
runners selected by lottery and meeting qualifications (finishing another
mountain 100 miler), 81 finished within the 48 hour cutoff.  The race started
Friday July 14 at 6:00 AM and ended 6:00 AM Sunday.
>
> You will notice a blank where my finish time would normally go.  Unofficially
it was 48:06:58.  My troubles started with the warm and sunny weather on the
climbs to Oscar's Pass and Virginius Pass during the first afternoon.  Being
from Florida, I like warm and sunny, but so did the swarms of flies that
tortured me as I climbed.  I went as hard as I could just to get away from them.
But the result of prolonged hard breathing at high altitude is fluid
accumulation in the lungs, a precursor to pulmonary edema.  The vertical mile
from Ouray at 10:30 PM to Engineer Pass at 5:30 AM was less than half the 2000
ft/hr rate of ascent I had been doing in training at similar altitudes.  All the
runners I passed on the earlier climbs were easily passing me back as I coughed
up the gunk in my lungs.  When I arrived at Grouse Gulch (58 miles) at 7 AM, I
was 2 hours behind my planned arrival time. I tried to eat but could not create
saliva, so I rested another 2 hours until my appetite
>  returned.  I knew I would go nowhere if I couldn't eat.
>
> I summitted Handies Peak at 12:20 PM in last place, climbing at 1500 ft/hr,
but after descending I felt really strong for the rest of the day with no more
lung problems.  But I knew I would have to push it to make the cutoffs.  My next
problem was the new section between Maggie Gulch (mile 85) and Cunningham Gulch
(mile 91).  I did not know until the day before the race that this route had
been changed, when I compared my old map with the master map at race
headquarters.  So I saw it for the first time at night.  I was miles from any
other runners.  The new route traversed two 13,000 ft mountains, descending to
the top of Stony Pass in the middle.  I could not see the mountains I was
climbing.  I blindly followed the reflective metal markers every 100 yards
across open tundra and rocks.  Sometimes the metal tags were edge on, and I
wasted lots of time looking for them, scanning with my flashlight and continuing
by dead reckoning when I couldn't see them.  I used my map,
>  orienting it to the north star.  I made the 2:00 AM Cunningham cutoff by 7
minutes and wasted no time there.
>
> The last section was a miserable, grueling 3000 foot climb in the first 2
miles, but at least it was familiar.  But now the hallucinations started.  They
always do after two nights without sleep.  The hallucinations were mostly
internal.  When I took a drink of Coke from my water bottle, it was not me who
took the drink, but another person inside my body.  The other people inside me
controlled my legs separately, causing me to stumble over rocks and weave off
the trail, which had steep drops on one side.  They intruded with random
thoughts, fragments of vivid dreams, trying to distract me from the goal of
getting back to Silverton.  During the climb I found another runner huddled in a
blanket, his pacer explaining he was unable to move.  He had left Cunningham 3
hours earlier.  I stepped over him, unconcerned with his troubles.
>
> The climb took 2 hours, leaving 2 to go.  The first mile of downhill trail
above treeline was too steep and rocky to run, and took 45 minutes.  When I
reached the jeep road, I ran hard 2000 vertical feet to the bottom, leaving 32
minutes to run the last 3.6 miles of muddy trail to the finish.  The third dawn
refreshed me.  I felt like I was running a 5K race.  My legs felt great, but in
the end just weren't fast enough.  My watch said 6:00 as I passed the ski hut
entering town, 0.6 miles to go.
>
> I am not sure how I would have done it differently.  I spent three weeks
altitude training in Leadville at 10,200 ft elevation, climbing to 14,000 almost
every day that the weather permitted.  I ran two high-altitude marathons in the
last two weeks for training.  The day after each race, I climbed Mt. Elbert, the
highest mountain in Colorado at 14,440 ft.  My legs were never tired.  I ate
massive quantities of food, especially protein, at every meal and lost several
pounds.  I took two rest days before Hardrock.
>
> I ran Hardrock with no crew, no pacer, and no drop bags, even though these are
allowed.  I carried a two bottle waist pack and tied extra warm clothing around
my waist when I wasn't wearing it: a polyester shirt, polypro shirt, jacket,
nylon long pants over shorts, knit hat, wool gloves.  I had a 7 Luxeon-LED light
(4 AA batteries changed nightly), 4-LED backup light, and 8 extra AA batteries. 
When it was warm I drank most of my water from streams (untreated) to stay
hydrated.  The 12 aid stations had great food: M&Ms, potato chips, turkey
sandwiches, cheese eggs, spaghetti, macaroni, pumpkin pie, shrimp and dip,
orange slices, chicken soup, Succeed, Coke, and Mt. Dew.  I ate everything and
never had any nausea.  In training I had been rotating 3 pairs of shoes and
selected the most comfortable for the race, 8 oz. Nike Zooms without socks. 
They dried fairly quickly after the frequent stream crossings.  I had no
blisters for most of the run, then only minor ones at the
  end
>  that did not interfere with running.
>
> I am back in Florida now, elevation 17 ft.  My feet are swollen.
>
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The 2006 HRH winning drop bags are:

HEAVIEST DROP BAG:
1st Place - Mike Thomas
1st Runner Up - Kirk Apt

LIGHTEST DROP BAG:
1st Place (tie) - Gary Cuffin & Jim Benike

SMELLIEST DROP BAG:
1st Place - Duane Nelson (Nobody else came close, thank goodness)

I just mailed the these and the rest of the drop bags that I picked
up from the Silverton gym on Sunday.  If you think you should be
getting a drop bag and do not receive it in about a week, please
contact me off line (thorn@...).

I still have one drop bag from Sherman that has no runner number or
name (shame on you!) inside or out.  If you think it belongs to you,
please identify it and I'll ship it.  Because of the really neat
stuff in it, you're going to have to work hard to convince me to give
it up.

Charlie

If I'd known there was going to be a drop bag contest I would have left
my stuff!  We stuffed ours into our luggage flew it back to Sacramento
(where it has been +100 since we got home) and let them stew for a
couple of days.  I think we could have given Duane Nelson a run for the
smelliest award.










Jerry Bloom

Metrology Department Manager

Dept 5339, MS 5594, room 1

Phone:  916/355-2082

Cell:  916/508-2760

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Goooooooooooooooooood Morning, Vital Listerians!!!

Screaming onto your monitors thru cyberspace right after (as I see) our very
own B-Day Daemon has first posted his gleeful wishes is...


"this"


...my, uh, twisted very latest way-freaky misadventures from high atop 9,310
feet.

But instead of clogging your blogways or expanding our bandwidths, thru my
new sweet arrangement with your favorite Z-people, my "fable" is now posted
toot suite:


http://www.zombierunner.com/MiddleIncomeRichard/hardrock06-addendum/


[Click only if you dare! ;]


In those immortal words of yet another way-fab fabulizer of imaginary fax,
Mr. Trail Safety:

"Here.  Have some salt."


Thanks,

Rich ("Softrocks Rick") Limacher
TheTroubadour@...

Yankee Folly of the Day:
There I was, ascending astonishingly high peaks at the impossible net rate
of minus six inches per minute, and yet all around me hot flies were passing
like I was standing still...
[Nah, y'all, dat ain't no "excerpt"; it's a marketing ploy ta getchoo ta
click!]

HI Everybody,
        If you ended up on the wait list for the 2006 Hardrock I still have
your application. Our policy is to not roll entries over from year to year, so
if you would like your check back from this year please let me know. If I
don't hear from you by Saturday, August 5th, I will assume it is ok to destroy
your check.
       We will be announcing the application process for the 2007 run by the
end of August.

Dale Garland
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

Some very nice Hardrock photos by Pasi.  There are two links at the top of his
report - one with Finnish narration, one with English captions.

I've updated the Hardrock photos and reports page
http://www.run100s.com/HR/photosandreports.html with Pasi's photos, along with
stories by Lisa Butler, Will Vaughan, Andrea Feucht, Rich Limacher, Peter
Bakwin, Matt Mahoney, and Joe Prusaitis, photos by Rich Durnan, Chris Gerber,
Bill Losey, Matt Mahoney, Joe Prusaitis, and Klas Eklof, and lyrics to the
Hardrock song by Roch Horton.

- Blake


>From: "Pasi Kurkilahti" <pasi.kurkilahti@...>
>To: bwood@...
>
>Hi Blake,
>
>And greetings from Finland!
>
>First I want to congratulate you for finishing Hardrock once again. And
>thank you for your company during the race when we were running down from
>Oscar's towards Telluride. It was a very unique experience for me to get a
>chance to run with you.
>
>I was wondering that would it be possible to add a link to my race report
>and photos in Hardrock Hundred home page?
>(http://www.run100s.com/HR/photosandreports.html)
>
>My report and link to the pictures can be found on my website:
>http://www.pasinjuoksusivut.net/page_1154585772284.html
>
>I can also send the original versions of some particular pictures if
>someone is interested so they may contact me through my e-mail address:
>(pasi.kurkilahti@...)
>
>
>I'm coming back next year if I get through the lottery because I really
>want to run the course counter clockwise as well.
>
>So I hope to see you again next year,
>
>Pasi
>
>
>--
>Pasi Kurkilahti
>Puustellintie 7 as. 6
>19120 Vierumaki
>FINLAND

I've just sent out the 2006 Hardrock questionnaire requesting runner
feedback to improve future Hardrock runs.

If you didn't receive it, want another copy, or the like, please let
me know and I'll send the file to you.

Thanks for providing input for improving Hardrock.

Charlie

The north facing peaks have a blanket of snow on this morning and the trees are
slipping in to their fall glory. Out along the old railroad track beyond Nute's
Chute was beautiful this morning: The mist in the aspens, the soft dark dirt
soaking up another season's bounty, the thick smell of mushrooms. It is a cool
rainy, windy afternoon.

   Hey, there was a nice blue jacket in the lost & found just after the run and
now I have found the owner, but no jacket. Anybody got it?


Keep in Touch,
LMac

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The San Juans have received their first dusting of snow and the trees
are changing into beautiful fall colors, sounds artistic doesn't it???
       We would like all you artistic types to submit your interpretations of
our run for consideration as the 2007 finishers and promotional print. Your
artwork can be a photograph or drawing and should contain some reference to
the Hardrock Hundred course. The Hardrock Hundred will pay for all the costs
associated with reproducing your artwork for our event.
        If you are interested in submitting a piece of work, please send it to
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run, PO 55, Silverton, CO 81433. The deadline for
submitting art is Jan. 27, 2007.
If you have any questions, please let me know.

Dale Garland
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

Hi Hardrockers!
        The San Juans are quietly resting under a blanket of white but that
doesn't mean there isn't things to let you know about for next years run. Many
thanks to those of you who filled out the runners survey from this years run.
As always there were many great comments and constructive critiques of what we
do well and what we can do better.

1. The 2007 Hardrock will be held on July 13-15 and be run in a
counter-clockwise direction.
2. We have received approval from the Bureau of Land Management to have 130
runners in the 2007 run. We will be using the lottery system to select runners
for 2007. We are in the final stages of getting the application ready and
anticipate that it will be available sometime in mid to late November. We will
begin accepting applications after Jan. 1 2007 and will hold the lottery
selection the first weekend in Feb.
3. Under the "What do I get the Hardrocker who has everything" concern;
  Running Delights, the official merchandiser for the Hardrock, has added some
new Hardrock merchandise. I invite you to check it out at runningdelights.com.
Go to "Our Products" and then use the drop down menu to go to "Hardrock 100".
Thanks to Heidi Schutt and Running Delights for making this available to us.
4. A reminder to the artistically inclined. We are soliciting artwork for the
2007 Hardrock finishers print. This print will also be used in our 2007
promotion as well as sponsor and community thank yous. If you would like to
submit an original piece of work or a photograph for consideration, please
send it to the Hardrock PO box (PO Box 55, Silverton 81433) or e-mail it to me
at hardrock100@.... Selection of the print will be the same time as
the selection of runners (early Feb.).
That's about it for now. We hope this finds all of you happy and healthy. If
there is anything you have questions on, please be sure to let us know.

Dale Garland
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

Hi Everybody,
       I may have already posted this, if I have please excuse my momentary
lapse.
       At last years HRH, I had the opportunity to meet Elinor Fish and David
Clifford from Trail runner magazine. They spent a great deal of time at our
event and now I know why. They have put together a great article called
"Repeat Offenders" about the runners who run Hardrock again and again which
appears in the November issue. The article features nice thoughts from Kirk
Apt, Roch Horton, Karl Meltzer, Tom Garrison, Betsy Nye and our first 5 time
champion, Betsy Kalmeyer. It is definitely something that every Hardrocker
needs to read.
Dale Garland
Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run

Well....a lot has happened in the past several months. Deb and I sold our house
in New Hampshire and moved to New Mexico. We just bought a house and below is a
link to some pictures we took basically near our neighborhood. You will
immediately see why we made the move. This section of NM is Colorado without all
the snow. It is cold in the evening and warms up to a beautiful sunny day, just
about every day! The locals tell me to not be surprised to have 50 degree days
in February! I have yet to run at lunch at work in anything but shorts and ss
shirt.

Our house is situated at about 8100 feet above sea level in the Jemez Mountains,
about 20 miles west of Los Alamos in a little community of homes called Sierra
Los Pinos. We have several mountains in our backyard (about a 30 minute run)
that reach above 10,000 feet. Across the road is an 11,000+ footer (Redondo
Peak) that we're not allowed on because it is in the protected Valles Caldera
(Google it!) and is supposedly sacred Indian land. (We might stealth hike it
some night) ;-)

Up here the norm is Ponderosa pine and not cactus and sand, like most think,
although Deb has already "run" into a rattlesnake in one of the canyons and down
near the Rio Grande south of Los Alamos I ran into a tarantula on a trail the
size of Deb's fist! Tucker wasn't quite sure what to make of that ;-)
The altitude has been difficult for us to adapt to, but I think after almost 6
months I am starting to feel "normal" again and actually ran a 5K race in town.

I have a 35 minute commute to work instead of the 90 minute commute I had from
NH. Deb is starting to get active in the local artist scene and is about to have
some of her works displayed at an art gallery show for the month of November.
We are about a 5 hour drive to Silverton, Colorado, home of the Hardrock 100 and
maybe a 6 hour drive to Leadville. We are very close to Arizona and Utah, so can
start running some races in those states. Deb spent the past two weeks in Texas
visiting family because "she can"!

Now that we will be in our house with good internet connection, we'll be back on
the grid! We owe a lot to Charlie Thorn and his wife, Andi Kron who have put up
with us living in their house since June! Many thanks to them as we got our New
Mexican feet under us...

Here is the link to the pictures we took this past weekend...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ultrastevep/SanAntonioHotSpringsTrail

Here is a link to our house...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ultrastevep/202MesaVerdeSLP

Life is good in New Mexico!

Deb and Steve
202 Mesa Verde
Jemez Springs, NM 87025


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Congratulations on the move, Steve and Deb! I'm glad you finally made it  out
west!
See you in Silverton in July!

Chris in FLA

In a message dated 11/2/2006 12:09:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ultrastevep@... writes:




Well....a lot has happened in the past several months. Deb and I sold our
house in New Hampshire and moved to New Mexico. We just bought a house and
below is a link to some pictures we took basically near our neighborhood. You
will immediately see why we made the move. This section of NM is Colorado
without all the snow. It is cold in the evening and warms up to a beautiful 
sunny
day, just about every day! The locals tell me to not be surprised to  have 50
degree days in February! I have yet to run at lunch at work in  anything but
shorts and ss shirt.

Our house is situated at about 8100  feet above sea level in the Jemez
Mountains, about 20 miles west of Los Alamos  in a little community of homes
called
Sierra Los Pinos. We have several  mountains in our backyard (about a 30
minute run) that reach above 10,000  feet. Across the road is an 11,000+ footer
(Redondo Peak) that we're not  allowed on because it is in the protected Valles
Caldera (Google it!) and is  supposedly sacred Indian land. (We might stealth
hike it some night)  ;-)

Up here the norm is Ponderosa pine and not cactus and sand, like  most think,
although Deb has already "run" into a rattlesnake in one of the  canyons and
down near the Rio Grande south of Los Alamos I ran into a  tarantula on a
trail the size of Deb's fist! Tucker wasn't quite sure what to  make of that ;-)
The altitude has been difficult for us to adapt to, but I  think after almost
6 months I am starting to feel "normal" again and actually  ran a 5K race in
town.

I have a 35 minute commute to work instead of  the 90 minute commute I had
from NH. Deb is starting to get active in the  local artist scene and is about
to have some of her works displayed at an art  gallery show for the month of
November.
We are about a 5 hour drive to  Silverton, Colorado, home of the Hardrock 100
and maybe a 6 hour drive to  Leadville. We are very close to Arizona and
Utah, so can start running some  races in those states. Deb spent the past two
weeks in Texas visiting family  because "she can"!

Now that we will be in our house with good internet  connection, we'll be
back on the grid! We owe a lot to Charlie Thorn and his  wife, Andi Kron who
have
put up with us living in their house since June! Many  thanks to them as we
got our New Mexican feet under us...

Here is the  link to the pictures we took this past weekend...
_http://picasaweb.http://picahttp://picashttp://picasawebhttp://pi_
(http://picasaweb.google.com/ultrastevep/SanAntonioHotSpringsTrail)

Here  is a link to our house...
_http://picasaweb.http://picahttp://picashttp://picasawe_
(http://picasaweb.google.com/ultrastevep/202MesaVerdeSLP)

Life  is good in New Mexico!

Deb and Steve
202 Mesa Verde
Jemez  Springs, NM 87025

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