MILLCREEK CANYON 50 K
East of Salt
Lake City, UT - Millcreek
Canyon
28
JULY 2007
This year’s run brought us 33 night
owls at the start, with 26 finishers. Both were records. Other records
were turned in by Shane Martin with a course record of 6 hours and 58
minutes, shaving 5 minutes off of Matt Clay’s 7 hour and 3 minute run
in the climbing direction - or up the canyon. Jodi Martin became
our
only five-time finisher, running her best time for this direction. A
group of runners following Shane were Peter Lindgren, Christian
Johnson, Jeff LaMora, and Carter Williams; with Jeff LaMora pulling
away for the second place finish, in 7 hours and 26 minutes. On the
women’s side, Liz Irvine narrowly missed Ruth Zolinger and Suki
Stewart’s course record by 4 minutes; running 8 hours and 50 minutes.
Becky Clements only missed the record by 14 minutes, finishing 10
minutes behind Liz. As a testament to how hard the course is, times
will reflect closer to a 50 mile race. Other things worth mentioning
was the moon - full, Kevin Lawlor’s aid station at the top of Grandeur
Peak drew praise at Elbow Fork with comments; something about
strawberries and chocolate, champagne and wine. He also hauled up
enough water to fill everyone’s water bottles. (Have a good trip to
Mount Blanc in August, Kevin!) The food donations were incredible.
Highlights were: guacamole and chips, a huge bowl of cut-up melon,
boiled potatoes, coffee flavored brownies, and huge amounts of snack
bars, cliff bars, Gatorade and bananas. Next year I will come up with a
better plan to get more of the aid to the Dog Lake aid station. Aid
stations were set up, course was marked, glow sticks were set, and
water was hauled in, then stripped and taken down. Thanks to the
following people for your help; Wes Parks, Mark Jensen, Rich Baxter,
Jared Campbell, Erik Storheim, Rich McDonald, Roch Horton and John
Lindblom. Dustan Haycock and George Sunderland, in a seven day period
ran the Speedgoat 50K, Deseret News marathon, and the Millcreek Canyon
50K. I am not certain they were the only ones. George
Sunderland’s
Deseret News marathon was his 100th one. And Davy Crockett ran the
Vermont 100 in a 25 hour time, last weekend. My only regret was that I
didn’t get to see more of you at the finish, having only seen the first
two runners come in and then the last runner come in, but there were
still things on the course left to do. See you next year going down the
canyon. Please email me with any changes.
Race Directors
- Ken Jensen & Rich Baxter
RUNNER
|
Elbow
Fork
10 miles
|
Finish
50 K
|
Shane Martin
|
2 hrs 12 min |
6 hrs 58 min |
Jeff LaMora
|
2 hrs 28 min |
7 hrs 26 min |
| Christian
Johnson |
2 hrs 25 min |
7 hrs 47 min |
| Peter
Lindgren |
2 hrs 26 min |
7 hrs 47 min |
Carter Williams
|
2 hrs 29 min |
7 hrs 55 min |
Liz Irvine
|
2 hrs 39 min |
8 hrs 50 min |
David Hayes
|
2 hrs 39 min |
8 hrs 50 min |
Becky Clements
|
3 hrs 03 min |
9 hrs 00 min |
Ryan McDermott
|
2 hrs 31 min |
9 hrs 00 min |
Andrew
Wittwer
|
2 hrs 56 min |
9 hrs 20 min |
Davy Crockett
|
2 hrs 49 min |
9 hrs 22 min |
Brian Harward
|
2 hrs 56 min
|
9 hrs 25 min
|
Wayne Harrell
|
3 hrs 00 min
|
9 hrs 26 min
|
Wynn Shooter
|
3 hrs 00 min
|
9 hrs 26 min
|
Brent Rutledge
|
3 hrs 00 min
|
9 hrs 28 min
|
Jim Dearing
|
3 hrs 00 min
|
9 hrs 34 min
|
| *Matt Bero |
3 hrs 00 min |
9 hrs 44 min |
Dustin Haycock
|
2 hrs 56 min
|
10 hrs 03 min
|
Ernie Floyd
|
2 hrs 56 min
|
10 hrs 03 min
|
Steve Kissell
|
3 hrs 50 min
|
11 hrs 56 min
|
George Sunderland
|
3 hrs 50 min
|
11 hrs 56 min
|
Jodi Martin
|
4 hrs 09 min
|
12 hrs 41 min
|
Karen Helfrich
|
4 hrs 08 min
|
12 hrs 41 min
|
Joe Larsen
|
4 hrs 13 min
|
14 hrs 25 min
|
* Matt Bero was a late starter
RUNNER
|
ELBOW
FORK
10 miles
|
MARATHON
Finish
|
George Odell
|
2 hrs 59 min
|
8 hrs 11 min
|
Greg Norannder
|
2 hrs 59 min
|
8 hrs 11 min
|
RUNNER
|
Elbow
Fork
10 Miles
|
Hank Armantrout
|
2 hrs 59 min |
Jim Skaggs
|
3 hrs 12 min |
Brad Pace
|
3 hrs 18 min |
Dean Dyatt
|
4 hrs 07 min
|
Gary Stosich
|
4 hrs 13 min |
RUNNER
|
Grandeur Peak
|
Joan Parker
|
MIA
|
John Lindblom
|
MIA
|