The US women’s World 100km team did awesome!  3 placed in the top ten!  Check out the results here.  I am excited for the girls - they have all been training hard and putting in road marathons (and winning!) for excellent prep training.  Great to have their hard work rewarded with fantastic results.  Not so secretly I do hope to one day be a part of this team.  Need to put in some road time and work on some leg speed... :)

The course started with a 7 mile climb mostly on forest service road and a little bit of trail.  We then popped onto another FS road that rolled along, twisting and turning for  13 or so miles leading us to the final downhill on some fun single track (hopefully they will be able to include more of that next year).  For starting nearly 90 people both fields were stacked and if I do say so the women’s even more so.  One aid station guy, Tim, told me that in the first 20 people through it seemed a majority were women.  The preliminary results are posted now and I am sure once Hal & Ian have a chance to clean up the final results will be up soon.


On a personal note, I was pretty excited to run my fastest marathon time on a trail course (I’ve only run one other marathon).  I told Ani she should enjoy a morning of shopping and she need not be at the finish line till 11:30 at the earliest, but was finished when she arrived.  Still need to discover a bit more leg speed for those distances to be able to race with the big girls, but fun to push myself and see what might happen.  Thanks for the opportunity and visit to Ashland RVR!