I'm disappointed to see that Jamie Donaldson is done.  She is a trooper.  I hope she is ok.

Also, forget all the RA'ers...my favorite runner out there?  "Fast Eddie" Rousseau.  He is over 70 years old and entertaining as hell to race with.

Any updates, Rick?  I'm getting twitchy. 

Nice to meet HasherRick, his wife, DB and murphy late last night.

DB dropped when he said that 135 was unlikely base on his then current pace. He decided not to destroy himself and save it for another day. I'm sure he'll report more about his run.

Nice job Murphy!  DB, sorry to hear you had to drop but I can only imagine how you are going to kill it at your next race.

Holy Crap, Connie Gardner 144!!!  What is the US female record?

Holy Crap, Connie Gardner 144!!!  What is the US female record?

Sue Ellen Trapp (145.28 miles, 1993)

Based on the posted results, it appears Connie fell just short again. She ran 145.25 in 2007, coming within meters of of the mark. She's come so close.

Good job sticking it out, Murphy. I've walked way too friggin' much before too. Sucks. Way to pull it out.

DB, hate to hear it wasn't your day.

And WG, where were you???

 Connie and friends created this race to give her an opportunity to break the American record that she came so close to getting back at Ultra Centric. 

 

She has attempted to break the record every year at North Coast 24 (09, 10 and 11).  This year she was on pace through about 20.5 - 21 hours when she got a little stomach trouble.  She took some time to puke on the side of the path and had to walk a few minutes the next two laps.  If you look at her splits she has three laps of over 12 minutes in a row.  After this episode she was able to recover and get back out there at full pace but was never able to make up the extra minutes to break the record.  It was apparent even with two hours left that she was not going to get it.  They kept pushing her for at least an hour but her times were not getting low enough to make up the time.  She still raced until the end and did very well, but she knew the record was out of reach a couple hours before the end of the race.

Thanks for sharing this info.  What an amazing athlete she is and what an effort to keep pushing herself.

So all I could find on the 3rd place male was a 40th place finish at last years Spartathlon in 33 hours.  I bet he's kicking himself for not joining the USATF ahead of time.  If the distance holds up for at large can this race still qualify him for Poland or do you need to be a member when you run the qualifying distance?

DB - Sorry it wasn't your day.  I'm sure that was a tough call for you to back off and save it.  (when you get a chance if you could spell out what this does to the team for worlds that would be great.  All I know is that Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Savage are in.)

Murphy - Nice work!  Way to keep moving.

MTA - How crowded was this race?  186 runners with vastly different paces and starting and stopping on a 1 mile path sounds pretty crazy.