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The boys, bows and a badger

VH1 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:03:55 +0000

Now that the race season is officially over I have time to do a few things I have been wanting to do for months. Yesterday afternoon I took my boy and dad for a little fishing at Strawberry.

For anyone wondering, yes those are Eaglevision glasses my old man is wearing.

Here is Wilbur reeling in one of his 20 fish. On the way home, he landed another critter

That’s right, we road-killed a badger! I have never even seen a badger in the wild until last night. This is how it looked as we first approached it. I thought it was just knocked out, and that it would attack at any minute.

Look at those claws!

PCPP was no Butte100 and that’s a good thing

VH1 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:53:31 +0000

PCPP was no Butte100 and that’s a good thing! Everyone is comparing the PCPP to Leadville, but let’s take a different angle as I haven’t written a summary of the debacle known as the Butte100. Here are the comparisons between the two races:

Both were hard
Both races had sections of bone rattling rocks and roots
Courses were single-track, for the most part, but Butte100 had a section of mind numbing pavement on a frontage road for 20 miles

The following is how the races differ:

PCPP was world class organized, Butte 100 was a cluster from the start
PCPP had an accurate trail map, profile and even a GPS file, Butte 100 had nothing, even up until race day there was no map or profile of the course
PCPP had aid stations that were stocked. The Butte100 had a few water bottles, and river water purified for the late comers
PCPP had great trail markings; Butte had few trail markers leaving no question why the vast majority of the racers got lost at least once. There was a turn at mile 98 that the trail came to a T. Prior to the T a local told me that I needed to go over a log, cross a river and then take a left at the T. He went on to say it’s not marked. How do you not mark a fork or a T in the trail?
PCPP had a legit racers meeting that defined the race rules, the Butte100’s meeting consisted of “I was getting around to print the race rules tonight, but the copy shop I was using was having CYBER ISSUES and I couldn’t get the rules printed, so just finish the race on the bike you start with”. First of all there were only 120 total racers, why not print them at your house, and secondly who uses a copy shop?
Butte was advertised as a 100 mile race, with 16000ft of vertical gain. PCPP was advertised as 80 miles and 14000ft of vertical gain. In reality PCPP was 78 miles with 12000ft, and Butte was 109 miles with over 25000ft of vertical gain. The mileage is after I subtracted out the mileage that I rode while getting lost TWICE. Erik Reissen’s GPS cut out at the 103 mile mark, so I don’t have exact vertical for the Butte100. It is better to over-estimate the mileage and climbing than under-estimating.
The trails of PCPP were ridden by organizers prior to the race day, The Butte100 trails were partially ridden, but on 4-wheelers.
I had an immediate finish time at PCPP, it has been over a month and Butte 100 hasn’t issued a finish time for me yet.
PCPP organizers are awesome with communication. Jay responds with a complete answer within minutes of a question being asked, the Butte 100 organizers average two-weeks to respond to a question and answer by saying “it was ???? fault, I will get right on it” not only was the buck passed and fault directed at someone else, but I have NEVER received an answer to any of my questions.
At PCPP the podium places get prizes, at the Butte 100 prizes for the top 3 spots were advertised, and promised, but 6-weeks after the race I haven’t seen or heard anything about my prize.
The PCPP had an elaborate finish area with an actual finish line, Butte 100 had a few cars in a dirt parking lot with no finish line. I guess they were using a black Chevy truck as the finish line?
Finish time for PCPP 9:13; finish time for Butte 100 14:17, although right now I show a NTA for the Butte 100

There are many more things I could trash the Butte 100 on, but the real question is would I race either event again? Considering the Butte 100 trail is like the PCPP course, only 30 miles longer and 11000ft-12000ft more climbing, the organizers were a joke, the course wasn’t marked, the aid stations were bare, etc, etc, etc, I wouldn’t race the Butte 100 again even if I was given $1000. PCPP was a great experience. Everything was top notch, the people were great, and I would definitely race it again.

Increasing the difficulty

VH1 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:38:03 +0000

Where was I this week?

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Where is this?

VH1 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:22:06 +0000

Can you guess this scenic spot? Hint: I don’t know if bikes are allowed on this trail

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Squaw peak 50

VH1 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:04:55 +0000

Too tired to type a report but here are some shots from mile 37, 38 and 39. Hardest thing I have ever done. This beast made Leadville look like an icup event. Finished in 11:17 which put me unofficially in 38th place overall, and I am sure it was the fastest time by a “nonrunner”

First false summit

I am in the blue and these pics do not do justice to how steep this 4 mile climb was. Yes we had to climb that and this was only the 2nd of 3 false summits!

Top of the climb at mile 39.5 and yes that is timp in the background.

Hey Zeph is a 100 miler in our future?

-A full race report will be coming when official stats have been posted

The Mother of all Draper Loops

VH1 — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:37:31 +0000

If you have wondered if this loop was possible, it is. But just know, it will put hair on your chest! BK-That black label is black gold!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/34074218?sms_ss=email

Here are some pics from the top

Inbox of Pain

VH1 — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:15:12 +0000

This is what I found in my inbox today. I don’t know if I am more excited or terrified. It is now official I am in the Squaw Peak 50

Just a note to let you know you are off the wait list ad into the race in case you haven’t seen the update on the web site.

Thanks John

John Bozung/RD
www.enlyten.com/poweredbystrips

Mountain Oasis Adventure Runs

Squaw Peak 50 Mile Trail Run

50 miles is a long way on a bike. It is even further on foot!

Almost summer

VH1 — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:15:56 +0000

This is a test
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Location:Cabin

New facebook profile pic

VH1 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:36:45 +0000

Get your own knuckles at the knuckle tattoo gun.

My bro stole my last facebook profile pic. Don’t mess with the Burrito knuckletat

Halloween Ski

VH1 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:53:35 +0000

Happy Halloween from the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon!