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Long dead ... But my stench lingers !
I'll add Mark Thompson as someone to watch. He ran a 3:48 50k in 6" of snow at Hawkeye a few months back and runs a 2:40ish marathon. I don't think he'll be challenging Zach B. but a top 10 spot is certainly possible.
My guess is that there will be 5 guys under 7 and 5-7 more under 7:30. Likely a sub 6:15 to win.
I also think it will take a at least a 7:15 on the ladies side to win.
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9:59:29
Scallon smoke the lady's record by 20 minutes and nearest woman by over an hour - Total world domination
Riddle came within @ 3 minutes of the record
all top 10 men under 7 hours
Brownie 8th place
GreyBeard
2nd and 3rd men.... wow. that must have been fun to watch at the end.
2020
It was also for that coveted spot at Western States - 2 Wisconsin boys battling it out
There is a big hill @ 2.5 miles before the finish (Big by WI standards) then at 2 miles you go down the hill, cross the road and 1.5 miles of rolling double track to the finish ... I could see the possibility of place #2- #4 being decided in this section
The leaders went out crazy fast. Way faster than last year. I saw Cassie maybe 3 miles ahead of me when I was on sub 7 pace.
As for my race. I just didn't have 8:23 pace in me. I was ready for the hills but that wasn't enough. I didn't have fueling issues, heat, or anything else I could say was a major factor. If I am going to achieve this goal, I need to figure out how to tweak my training to be both my fastest on roads and better on hills than ever before.
Oh - and according to my wife, she just ran her first and last trail 50K. She finished 2nd female OA with a time of 5:01:13. She didn't even do hill training and this is the 2nd time she ran on trails ever.
Congrats to her ... I guess she wants to go in and out with a bang. Trails / hills to hurt if you do not train on then. Getting beat only by Meghan Arbogast is a pretty good 1st trail 50k!