- 100K early start in Easton at 5am
- 100K and 100K Relay start in Easton at 7am
- 50K start at Garcia (Exit 38) at 12 noon
Friday, June 12, 2009
20th Century Trail Ultra - Car Pooling
Start details:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Blanchard Mountain Ultra 2009 - Results
King Arthur taking another crown.
Social aid station at start/finish.
Tamara feeds the masses.To see the breakdown of the 900 or so miles we ran on the day, download the Excel workbook: Results
For more photos (Michael an Tom's): Photos
Scotty Railton's 2009 race report
Blanchard Mountain Ultra
Blanchard Mountain Ultra web site
Date: Saturday, May 30th 2009
Start: 8am
Directions, etc: same as last year
Contact: michael@nwultras.com (or FaceBook event)
Start: 8am
Directions, etc: same as last year
Contact: michael@nwultras.com (or FaceBook event)
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Ghost of Seattle Marathon 2008
A selection of the photos of this year's run from Michael's point of view.
(click to enlarge)
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More pictures on Michael's webshots album.
If you want a hi-res original, just ask.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Dumbing Down the Dumb Ass
I'll give Eric credit for the title of this post. His reason for avoiding our Dumb Ass Training runs is that he doesn't want to dumb down his Dumb Ass experience. Fair enough.
Arthur was the one who encouraged me to schedule some "orientation" sessions on the course of the Tiger Dumb Ass 50k fun run. We've scheduled eight Tuesday evening runs leaving the lower lot at 6pm.
Two down, six to go
Last week it was just Scott Krell and I. We didn't expect any other suckers and we decided to do one loop at a cheeky pace. Scott tore up Nook in about 37 minutes and then we settled into a cruise pace for the rest of the loop (we just made sure our night time loop time was better than Roy's PR).
Scott Krell
Roy Seliber
Tonight Scott is out of town and I was lucky enough to find one other victim to join me. Shawn and I did a very respectable two loop session: a mere half marathon with almost 5000 ft of gain in about 3 hours. "Not bad for a school night" according to Shawn. This was supposed to be Arthur's first session with us but he had some lame excuse (broken ribs from an accident or something). Hey Arthur, all you had to do was say "I don't want to run with you guys". No need to go to extremes.
Shawn McTaggart
Join us next week, November 4th 2008 at 6pm:
- condition your hill climbing muscles
- get familiar with the course
- have a good solid weekday workout
Click on the event on the calendar for details and contact info.
Michael Cartwright
Arthur was the one who encouraged me to schedule some "orientation" sessions on the course of the Tiger Dumb Ass 50k fun run. We've scheduled eight Tuesday evening runs leaving the lower lot at 6pm.
Two down, six to go
Last week it was just Scott Krell and I. We didn't expect any other suckers and we decided to do one loop at a cheeky pace. Scott tore up Nook in about 37 minutes and then we settled into a cruise pace for the rest of the loop (we just made sure our night time loop time was better than Roy's PR).
Scott Krell
Roy Seliber
Shawn McTaggart
Join us next week, November 4th 2008 at 6pm:
- condition your hill climbing muscles
- get familiar with the course
- have a good solid weekday workout
Click on the event on the calendar for details and contact info.
Michael Cartwright
PS - In case you hadn't noticed, I decided to add some faces to names. Something we should do more of.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Big Dabrowski - run as a marathon today
We had a bit of trouble with the original version of this run so we adjusted a bit. Bellevue Parks didn't want us running the final stretch through Coal Creek until they have finished their trailwork so we adjusted the length down from 50k to a marathon. DNR didn't want us to have an "event" on Tiger so we went low key and gave up on trail markings and aid stations.
7am at the Highway 18 trailhead saw a group of 5 diehards who ignored the crappy weather and decided to run anyway. The gate to the upper lot was closed so we decided to start from the lowerlot and figure out later how to add some extra credit distance to get our marathon credit.
Yours truly at the bottom of the One View trail. By the time we left Tiger Mountain we had over 15 miles behind us.
We had a vehicle parked at the 15 mile mark on the course where we resupplied with water and other goodies. The coke was good.
There is a short section of street running between Tiger and Squawk.
Dean Kayler cruising on Squawk Mountain.
Van Phan clocking up another back-to-back with a smile: Baker Lake 50k yesterday, Big Dabrowski marathon today. She also kept us honest with a 1.6 mile side trip up to the Bullitt Fireplace to make sure we got the distance. This involved some extra climbing credit (about +600 ft) but Van pointed out that only half of the out-and-back was uphill.
Shawn McTaggart cruising Squawk Mountain. Also a long weekend starting with course marking on Baker Lake on Friday night.
Finishers at Red Town Trailhead - seemed like a long day for a a marathon until you factor in the nature of the trails and the amount of climb:
Vital statistics:
7am at the Highway 18 trailhead saw a group of 5 diehards who ignored the crappy weather and decided to run anyway. The gate to the upper lot was closed so we decided to start from the lowerlot and figure out later how to add some extra credit distance to get our marathon credit.
Yours truly at the bottom of the One View trail. By the time we left Tiger Mountain we had over 15 miles behind us.
We had a vehicle parked at the 15 mile mark on the course where we resupplied with water and other goodies. The coke was good.
There is a short section of street running between Tiger and Squawk.
Dean Kayler cruising on Squawk Mountain.
Van Phan clocking up another back-to-back with a smile: Baker Lake 50k yesterday, Big Dabrowski marathon today. She also kept us honest with a 1.6 mile side trip up to the Bullitt Fireplace to make sure we got the distance. This involved some extra climbing credit (about +600 ft) but Van pointed out that only half of the out-and-back was uphill.
Shawn McTaggart cruising Squawk Mountain. Also a long weekend starting with course marking on Baker Lake on Friday night.
Finishers at Red Town Trailhead - seemed like a long day for a a marathon until you factor in the nature of the trails and the amount of climb:- Dean Kayler - 6:39:19
- Shawn McTaggart - 6:39:19
- Tony Covarrubias - 6:39:19
- Michael Cartwright - 6:39:19
- Van Phan - 6:39:20 (DFL)
Vital statistics:
- 27 miles
- 7150 ft elevation gain
- 8000 ft elevation loss
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