SQU.EAK 50 MILER
Sat. June 2, 2001, 5am Start,
10,000 ft elev.gain/loss
 
Place Runner Time
1 Karl Meltzer,33 7:49:25*
2 Leland Barker,43 8:27:32
3 Ken Jensen,32 8:41:26
4 Michael Tilden,34 8:59:14
5 Jeffry S.Lamora,27 9:06:46
6 Ruth Zollinger,35 9:20:59*
7 Curtis Anderson,38,CO 9:24:45
8 Jason Moyer,27,OR 9:46:31
9 Emily Loman,25,CO 9:47:37
10 Todd Schmidtke,36  9:48:23
11 Heikki  Ingström, 9:49:50
12 Betsy Nye,36,CA 9:54:46
13 Zachary Grossman,23 9:56:03
14 Brent Farr,40 10:05:51
15 Todd Salzer,27,CO 10:09:17
16 Tim Seminoff,42 10:17:57
17  Chad Ambrose,29 10:18:43
18 Marc Sanderson,30 10:24:01
19 Jesse Peterson,27 10:24:38
20 Tom Remkes,39 10:25:35
21 Valerie Caldwell,36,NM 10:30:49
22 John Bartley,48 10:38:26
23 Robert Green,44 10:38:59
24 Alex Wolfe,34,CO 10:44:29
25 Courtney Scaife,32 10:45:16
26 Murray Schart,42 10:55:45
27 Ron Stagg,39 11:00:15
28  Mike Dawson,36 11:00:24
29  Marc Witkes,34,CO 11:03:36
30 Kelly Stevens,40 11:12:38
31 Dave Hunt,41 11:12:40
32 Jim Haisley,44 11:12:41
33 Dan Wolfe,51 11:13:12
34 Jim Sperling,53 11:13:47
35 Shaun Gogarty,42,CO 11:23:26
36 Niels Bigler,34 11:23:33
37 Grizz Randall,56 11:25:58
38 Mori Hannemann,35 11:28:19
39 David Myers,25 11:29:22
40 Dale Heisler,51 11:30:50
41 Cliff Reed,47 11:33:08
42 Joe Costantino,32,TX 11:33:57
43 Daniel Hendricksen,47 11:35:40
44 Hannah Rimensberger,30,MT 11:36:09
45 John McAward,41,CO 11:37:18
46 Scott Boubol,36,CO 11:38:29
47 Deborah Wagner,50 11:38:42
48 Steve Westlund,50 11:39:14
49 Kim Olsen,47 11:41:55
50 Paul Holvnia,39,MN 11:41:55
51 Jon Eager,39 11:42:24
Charlie Vincent,40 11:42:24
53 Jill Bohney,36 11:42:35
Carter Williams,43 11:42:45
55 Troy Olson,37 11:43:33
56 Allen Belshaw,34,CO 11:44:22
57  Nigel Finney,54,MN 11:45:34
Tom Knutson,50,MN 11:45:34
59 John Diroll,44 11:46:33
60 Missy Berkel,29 11:51:51
61 Dan Barnett,38 11:52:37
62 Shane Sykes,23 11:52:53
63 Jimmy Salasovich,25,CO 11:54:20
64 Carl Brailsford,45 11:54:51
65 Harley King,55 11:57:19
66 Rolf Thompson,44 11:57:25
67 Wayne Baldwin,34 11:57:40
68 Roger Adams,40 12:02:24
69 Melanie Manwaring,33 12:03:17
70 Keith Andertson,45 12:03:47
71 Jeffrie Parker,52 12:08:15
72 Lyle Nay,39 12:20:13
73 Dan Carothers,42,CA 12:23:11
74 Number Forty Seven 12:27:56
75 John Service,36 12:27:56
76 Tim Coats,40 12:28:27
77  James Davidson,41,NM 12:41:54
78  Hank Armantrout,42 12:43:10
Tom Noll,46,ID 12:43:10
80 Dan McCurry,50 12:44:42
81  Jon Gnass,45,OR 12:48:19
82 Shane Martin,34 12:50:14
83 Cindy Martin,33 12:50:51
84 Rich Baxter,33 12:54:16
85 Janine Duplessis,46,WA 12:54:36
86 John Wagner,52,WA 12:54:37
Lynn Yarnall,50,WA 12:54:37
88  Stephen Bailey,32 12:56:25
89 Randy Andrews,46 12:56:14
90 Karen Gnass,39,OR 12:56:50
Bill Francis,48 12:56:50
92 David Mecham,55 12:59:05
93 Marion Markle,41 13:14:29
94 Jeanne Cleveland,29 13:18:55
95 Paul Hart,52 13:19:00
96 John Moellmer,56 13:19:01
97 Barbara Elias,39 13:19:53
98 Joe Eyring,34 13:22:11
99 Colleen Ford,39 13:27:20
100 Max Welker,58,WA 13:29:32
101 Daren Anderson,32 13:30:44
102 Kerry Collings,52 13:42:35
Chris Campbell,40 13:42:35
104 James McGregor,58 13:53:54
105 Scott Nelson,37 13:58:05
106 Matthew Watts,44,CO 14:00:05
107 Dorrell Henderson,52 14:01:21
108 Tamara Little,32 14:07:01
109 David Wagner,57 14:22:11
110 Brett Neville,43 14:24:23
111 Troy Marsh,36 14:28:37
112 Jonathan Hawkins,37 14:31:04
113  Jon Heshka,36 14:55:06
114 Jennifer Roach,47,CO 14:55:14
115 George Sunderland,45 14:55:19
116 Wally Burnham,59 14:56:57
117 Dawn Bentley,32 15:01:47
118 Ulrich Kamm,53,CO 15:02:15
119 Anita Fromm,30,CO 16:01:35
120 Wendy Holdaway,45,Mexico 16:15:59
Jeff Holdaway,42,VA 16:15:59
122 Andrea Feucht,27,NM 16:19:11
Julie Nelson,40 16:19:11
124 Troy Reisner,28 16:24:00
125 Marydee Potter,32 16:26:48
Thomas Tarbet,30 16:26:48
127 Jeffrey Wagner,40,CO 16:45:43
Paul Burnham,33 16:45:43
Larry Ross Nordell,51 16:45:43
* COURSE RECORD
This post courtesy of Laurie Staton from the internet:
Wendy Holdaway:
"When I asked the family newsletter police for a weeks extension to file
my reportvafter the Squaw Peak 50 mile "fun run" my sister Dani (the editor) told
me that I had better at least write a small installment before the run.
"There’s cougars, you know, you might die!"
I don’t know about the cougars but I definitely felt like dying several
times during the race.
My partner in this first Ultra attempt was to be my father, Grant
Holdaway, oldest finisher at Wasatch.  But an accident ( hit and run while training) left
me solo.  I was feeling nervous about running solo, yet excited to be finally putting my
year of training to the test. Suddenly, on Thursday, I heard my brother Jeff’s voice (one
of the big dogs of ultra running) from the kitchen.
Wow, I thought, that speaker phone is really turned up. Upon closer inspection I found a body to go with the voice. I was so touched! He had flown in to race with me on Saturday.
Everyone, including the race director knew about it and all had kept the secret. I was blown away.
After the requisite three hours of sleep on Friday night we were at the
start on Saturday and the mob of people just starting running in the
dark.  We had flashlights but they weren’t really necessary as the beginning is
on an asphalt path and it was starting to get light. Then a sharp left and
we’re climbing and climbing and climbing. While the scenery is breathtaking
I’m so concentrated on my foot placement that I can’t take the time to
notice. At each aid station Jeff runs ahead to fill my bottles and it’s
onward and upward. I’m fine as long as we’re moving up but the long down
on very bad gravel roads starts and I hit my first bad patch. There’s an
ultra runners quote that says "don’t worry about what hurts now, something
else will hurt much worse later".
I’m absolutely unable to run the downs. Now this is a problem as the
downhill are where the runners make up for lost time. According to Jeff
I have lousy foot-eye coordination and quite frankly I’m scared to just
let ‘er rip. We slogged on through the growing heat and I couldn’t believe
that we weren’t even at the half-way mark.
Finally we get to Hobble Creek and my Dad is waiting to cheer us on.
By his face I know we’re late and I don’t look so hot. So I grab a bag
of food and as Jeff stays behind to fill the bottles I take off, we’re
battling the cut-off now.
We’re now on a road and though all runners hate the asphalt suddenly I
have a smooth surface and I can run. Slowly we start to pass runners and the
old competitive Holdaway spirit kicks in. I’m feeling good. We hit an aid station almost back on schedule and I’m feeling great. They give me a wet paper towel to wash 7 hours of grime off my face and hands. They have watermelon, I’m in heaven. I stuff my mouth
with fritos and with my best chipmunk imitation wave thanks and
good-bye. It’s a nice dirt road and thank the lord it’s slightly up-hill. We
continue to pick off runners and I’m getting into this ultra experience. We’ve
been told that the cut-off at 2:30 has been moved back to three but even so
push a little to make it by 2:30. We arrive at 2:32 but there’s no problem.
Finally I have the time to stop and fix my blisters. I have two huge
ones but am prepared with tape, pins, blister block and alcohol. We continue
with good ultra nutrition, salt and sugar and we’re off. All day we have been
playing leap-frog with a very nice lady, Julie, who is a strong runner
but now diagnosed with a serious heart problem. She is trying to run with a
heart monitor and keep her heart rate below 140.
We catch up to her on the ups and she blows past us on the downs.
Once again we are running together, it’s obvious that she’s experiencing
some distress. Also, after a weather report for heat and sun, it starts
to become cloudy and at about 3 PM it starts to rain.
Thanks to Dad I have small poncho in my fanny pack but Julie and Jeff
have nothing. It’s very cold. Then we hit the "Ridge". It’s 1400 feet
straight up! No switchbacks, no nothing, just a scrabble up a mountain. There
were various names suggested for this section, including S.O.B. Hill and
KillJohn Hill. (John being the race director who devised the course) Thanks to my
personal trainer and my bike work on my quads, though I’m not that fast
it really doesn’t give me much of a problem. Jeff being the mountain goat
that he is goes up running (almost). Julie’s dying and when I get to the top
I find Jeff sitting with a girl who is experiencing strange lights in her
vision and numbness in her hands. (Lovely sport)
We move on to Aid Station #9 and
I’m going to report to them that there are people with problems but see
them coming up behind us. And we’re off for the final 10 miles. Piece of cake, I
think, but then see that it is all downhill. And not just any downhill, a tiny
track just filled with stones. A distance that should have taken 2 hours turns
into a 3 1/2 slog. We pass the cougar cave where the race directorbattled
one last year, but no luck, no cougars in sight. We have to continue. We
are met at the final aid station by Dad and Mom and all of Dani’s family
with a great reception. I feel good that this race is almost over then I
realize that we have 3 1/2 miles down a paved road to the finish. Thanks to my
niece Holly’s cheer leading we meander down and run the last section to the
finish. 16 hours 15 minutes, a really pathetic time but a personal best for me
seeing as it is the only ultra I had ever run. (And I wasn’t even the last one
in) And as Jeff pointed out, the good thing about a lousy time is that it is
very easy to do better the next time. It was a great experience and I’m
very glad that I did it though I wish I had chosen a slightly easier Ultra to
for my first one. (Squaw Peak is ranked 2nd or 3rd for difficulty among
the 50 milers in the states) Another Ultra quote:
"This race is so hard I won’t even have to lie about it when I go home."
I couldn’t have done it without my family, especially Jeff who flew out
topace, Dad who continued to encourage through-out his own trials and
Dani’s family who cheered us on to victory. Kudos to John as race director
and to the  great volunteers. Thanks to you all."
Wendy Holdaway