Badwater (Read 1252 times)

It is on. http://www.badwater.com/

Ha, one day I'd love to do that. Maybe when I'm 47 :-) Anyone see the movie Running on the Sun ? It's a documentary about badwater and it is... badass!

I see Maniac #81 is in the first wave. Of course Maniac #15 won last year.

I just wanted to say good luck to Jamie Donaldson! You go GIRL! I had the pleasure of pacing(More like trying to keep up) for a single 12.5 mile lap with this girl in the Umstead 100. She is absolutely amazing. There is nothing quite like seeing someone drop the hammer at mile 84 of a race and hit a 6:30 per mile pace! I have been trying to follow the runner’s progress on the web pages below. However, it looks like they haven’t updated it in awhile or something has happened to most of the 10:00 AM start field. As of right now the results show that only 2 runners from the 10:00 am start have reached the first check point and it is well past 3 and a half hours since they started. Hopefully, that is not the case! If you ever get “CHICKED” by Jamie then I wouldn’t feel bad about it. She is the most determined runner I have ever seen(Male or Female). Results at each check point http://tinyurl.com/6z2rzb Live updates and pictures http://badwater.com/2008web/ Race Roster http://tinyurl.com/6e9x4h And yes Running on the Sun is one crazy movie! I have it queued up to watch tonight!

Stovepipe Wells (41 mi) and three 10:00 starters have already taken the lead. Now why didn't I bring my "Running on the Sun" DVD on this trip?

ah ha! Jorge Pacheco just hit PS in 10:30

Are they keeping the splits up to date?

Here is the breakdown at 90 miles: 1 8 Pacheco Jorge m 40 Los Angeles California USA MEX 1000 2:16 5:32 10:30 14:19 2 2 Konya Akos m 33 Oceanside California USA HUN 1000 2:16 5:41 11:10 15:03 3 11 Reed Pamela f 47 Tucson Arizona USA USA 1000 2:37 7:00 13:44 17:56 4 4 Karnazes Dean m 45 San Francisco California USA USA 1000 2:21 6:28 13:03 18:05 5 17 Donaldson Jamie f 33 Littleton Colorado USA USA 1000 2:40 6:55 13:54 18:26 6 33 Armstrong Shanna Christine f 33 Lubbock Texas USA USA 800 2:29 6:58 13:57 18:44 Jorge Pacheco is slightly behind his pace through 90 last year but he is still insanely fast! Akos is almost 1 hour behind him but still hanging in there. Pam Reed appears to be “Just feeling it”. She is flying and she is third overall and over 30 minutes ahead of Jamie Donaldson. This is one heck of a race! Two men going for the course record. 3 women in the top 6! Half of the top 10 are women! The women’s leader is 47! What more could you ask for? The race reports said that the roads were closed due to flooding last night. They actually rerouted the course to go back the other way instead of continuing on towards Whitney. In the end the road was opened back up though and “ALL” runners will still be doing the normal course. If you think running on the sun was good? Wait till you see the video of this years race! Maybe there will be a “Running on the sun 2”? With the paces they are doing this year it would be more like “Sprinting on the sun”! Go Jamie, Give’m H$LL or at least make them feel like they are running through it!