It was an excellent day down in Manitou/Colorado Springs for a long run in the mountains. The first annual Ponderous Posterior Pikes Peak 50K ended up drawing somewhere between 50 and 90 runners across the three distances (a big range, I know, but I'm sure JT has a bit more precise count), and everyone enjoyed temperatures in the 50s and a good mix of snow and dirt out on the trails.
Pikes Peak Sports provided some surprising coverage of the event, which can be found here.
Steve Bremner of Team CRUD also has a photo gallery posted here.
As far as I could gather in between post-run beverages, the final top 50K results went something like this:
1) Justin Ricks 5:19
2) Scott Jaime 5:19
3) Anton Krupicka 5:24
4) Scott Jurek 5:24
5) Jacob Rydman 5:24
6) Joe Grant 5:24
(Again, I'm sure JT has much deeper results.)
I don't know what Justin and Scott were doing up in the 8:00am wave, but I do know that the group I ran with all day (starting at 9:00am) was very liberal in its stopping to eat gels, chatting/waiting at trail junctures, and general soaking up of the gorgeous views and weather. Our actual running time was 4:49 and I chatted with many runners who Garmined the course right at 31 or 32 miles with ~7000' of vertical gain. All in all pretty much exactly the kind of times/efforts I expected on the route.
An enormous expression of gratitude must be directed at JT for the gracious offering up of his home for staging the before and after aspects of the event and also to the Team CRUD guys for marking the course excellently, printing maps, and hosting an informal but appreciated and effective aid station at the Waldo Canyon TH parking lot on Highway 24. Let's make this an annual one!
Pikes Peak Sports provided some surprising coverage of the event, which can be found here.
Steve Bremner of Team CRUD also has a photo gallery posted here.
As far as I could gather in between post-run beverages, the final top 50K results went something like this:
1) Justin Ricks 5:19
2) Scott Jaime 5:19
3) Anton Krupicka 5:24
4) Scott Jurek 5:24
5) Jacob Rydman 5:24
6) Joe Grant 5:24
(Again, I'm sure JT has much deeper results.)
I don't know what Justin and Scott were doing up in the 8:00am wave, but I do know that the group I ran with all day (starting at 9:00am) was very liberal in its stopping to eat gels, chatting/waiting at trail junctures, and general soaking up of the gorgeous views and weather. Our actual running time was 4:49 and I chatted with many runners who Garmined the course right at 31 or 32 miles with ~7000' of vertical gain. All in all pretty much exactly the kind of times/efforts I expected on the route.
An enormous expression of gratitude must be directed at JT for the gracious offering up of his home for staging the before and after aspects of the event and also to the Team CRUD guys for marking the course excellently, printing maps, and hosting an informal but appreciated and effective aid station at the Waldo Canyon TH parking lot on Highway 24. Let's make this an annual one!
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| Joe and Scott head for the hills with the 9am wave. Photo: Jenny Uehisa. |
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| Popping some GUs at the Waldo Canyon turn-off in Williams Canyon. Photo: Alex Nichols. |
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| jLu exiting Williams Canyon on the 17mi course. Photo: Jenny Uehisa. |
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| At the finish with Joe and Scott. Photo: Jenny Uehisa. |
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