Last text message I received from the course:
"Sabrina was hammering the last hour and half. Running faster than anyone on the course"
I'm afraid it might be a while until results are posted. The manual timing was not their plan A and I imagine there will be some disputes.
Let's hope preliminary results post soon.
AARGH! Where are they?!
Report from Joe Fejes - Joe Fejes - Unofficially...3rd place male with 142 or 143 behind Jon Olsen and Serge Arbona.
Results are up: http://northcoast24.org/news/
Wow to the preliminary top 10!
MTA: lap = 0.900075 mile
Amazing race - Changes up DB's list a little. Move's men's #6 slot to 142.
Is Sabrina's total a new record for women?
Great job Buzzie, Awesome race, Congrats.
Yes it is. But I wonder if validating the results might not be an issue with the timing issues. Early on they were asking us how many laps we ran as we passed by. Not to verify-they didn't know.
Oh Crap, I hope they figure it out.
Nice work out there Murph. That's a lot of laps you put it.
Bacon Party!
Liz
pace sera, sera
I asked several guys if they were you ...
Murphy?
What? No. I'm not Murphy.
Murphy? Is that you?
lol No, I'm still not Murphy.
Are you Murphy?
Sorry, I'm not Murphy.
Would you like to be?
Thought about asking you. But talked myself out of it - you hadn't mentioned running with your BFF! ;-) Doh!
It was an interesting day. And, mostly, I really enjoyed it. Beautiful. Windy. Loved the kites, kite boarders, and crashing waves. The sunset. The moonrise.
Definitely disappointed about the timing/lap-counting issue. Especially when I was given a carefully considered updated count that more closely matched mine, then, hours later find out that I had fewer laps then they'd told me (twice!) before. Really, I wasn't going backwards, even though it may have looked like it. And, of course there were many others affected.
>>>>>> David
An official asked me how many laps I had at one point. When I said I had no idea, I heard an under-the-breath ****. I ended up telling them where I should be by giving them a lapped-by-Serge count instead.
My race started off ok, went bad, went great, went bad, then I made the decision to stop. I had been feeling good for a very long time but had a sudden energy crash and cramping issues that took too long to sort out. At that point I decided to not beat my body up any more than I already had, since it wouldn't get me anything anyway, and just recovery for the next race. Maybe not the right decision for everyone or in everyone's mind, but I know it was the right one for me.
Part way through the race, someone who I thought was a random crazy lady started forcing me to take salt tablets and eat and drink certain things every so often. Eventually she grabbed my stuff from where I'd left it near Murphy's and brought it over to her camp. After that, my race was going really well until the crash. Apparently she is going to be the team manager for the US in Poland. She crewed for me, Serge, Anna Piskorska, and at least one other person all at the same time and seemed to be doing a very good job of it.
I won't get into certain lap counting issues that may have effected a few people who finished near the top, but if there were no official splits for Sabrina's laps, even if the lap count can be considered correct, can a record be ratified? Also, Olsen wanted to recover more quickly for Western States followed by worlds, which I think was the main reason he shut down early rather than going for the record.
Don't think I figured out who buzzie was.
Kalsarikännit
Maybe not the right decision for everyone or in everyone's mind, but I know it was the right one for me.
Your racing is a lot different than anyone else's here. The variety of distances that you are able to excel at is incredibly impressive. You lived to fight another day. Nothing wrong with that. It wasn't the race you wanted but you are young and will have a million other opportunities. I don't even know why you are racing with the rest of us old farts. You have speed. Go have fun with it. Maybe a 15:15 this weekend?
I want to do it because I want to do it. -Amelia Earhart