Zumbro 100 - LPTR Gnarly Bandits survive!

Link to a great article about Zumbro 100 - Note only half of the Gnarly Bandit series runners survived the first test and 3 of them are LPTR!  Yea Angela, Tina and Jennifer!  Great Job to Logan who also finished but is not part of the Gnarly Bandit series (that darn high-school thing really gets in the way!!)

http://www.snowshoemag.com/2013/04/21/one-tough-race-100-miles-of-muck-at-zumbro/?fb_action_ids=528169170583538&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22528169170583538%22%3A445601445530395%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22528169170583538%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

Cassie Wins Lake Senoma 50mile!

LPTRunner Cassie Scallon won the 2013 Lake Senoma 50 miler and set a course record in the process!  It wasn't all smooth sailing though - Get the details at her interview here on the irunfar website...

http://www.irunfar.com/2013/04/cassie-scallon-2013-lake-sonoma-50-mile-champ-interview.html

This also gives her an auto bid to Western States 100, which would be her first attempt at racing that distance - Congrats Cassie!

From LPTRunner Eric Beaver...

This week for the Wed run I brought homemade energy bars -  Several people asked me to post the recipe for on the website  -   I adapted this from a recipe I found on the Trailrunner website.

So, for what it's worth:

Erik's Real Easy (Real Food) DIY Energy Bars

3 cups rolled oats
1 cup honey
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1 cup raisins, coursely chopped
1 tsp salt

Heat the honey, peanut butter, salt and raisins over medium low heat in a pot big enough to accomodate the oats.  Stir occasionally until well blended and liquid.  Remove from heat, add the oats, and stir until well blended.  Press into an 8X8 baking dish lined with wax paper.  Let cool.  Cut into 16 bars.

Nutrition Info:
Calories        199
Fat                5 g
Cholestrol      0 mg
Sodium         185 mg
Potassium     142 mg
Total Carbohydrate 37 g
Fiber                      2.4 g
Sugars                   24 g
Protein                   4.3


Erik Beaver

Three Days of Syllamo Update...

From Don Frichtl...

"Day 2 at Syllamo (2 more photos following). Robert was third in the 50 mile today and is sitting in third in the stage standings. Tina was fourth female in the 50k yesterday and finished strong today. Both runners have dealt with temps in the upper 80's, which has caused many others to drop. Full race report to follow."

(Don forwarded these photos of a banged-up Robert - Ugg!)

2013 John Dick Memorial 50k

February 2nd marked not only Groundhog’s Day, but also the 25th running of the Badgerland Striders winter ultra.  The 2nd also happened to be Paul Gionfriddo’s birthday; he would be out on the trails celebrating his 90th!!  So while Paul wasn’t planning to do the full 50k, it was great having him there, showing all of us that we should continue to stay active no matter what.

Over the years of the race, there has been one constant: the weather and trail conditions will always be different!  In the week leading up to the race, southeastern Wisconsin had record high temps (60 degrees), with large amounts of rain.  This melted most of the snow cover, and left large areas of standing water.  By Wednesday the temps started to drop, and the rain changed over to snow.  On the night before the race, another 3 inches of light, powdery snow fell.

The temps also continued to drop, with overnight lows below zero; most of race day would remain in the single digits.  So we modified our standard course to keep the manned aid station by the start/finish shelter.  This helped keep volunteers and runners (and fluids) from freezing solid.  Out on the trail, the additional snow compressed down easily, and the running conditions weren’t too bad, but runners carrying bottles had to deal with frozen nipples and drinking slushies!

Last year we saw a big jump in runners, from the usual 70-80 to 153 starters.  Numbers held steady this year, with 140+ entries and 139 starters.  Thanks to the DNR for helping create more parking space, and to our great group of volunteers for handling the larger crowd with ease.

Kevin Grabowski had a solid race, leading from the start, and winning with a PR of 4:01:40.  Kevin finished about 20 minutes in front of the second place runner, Mike Dietz.  In the women’s division, Tina Heil ran smart, moving up steadily throughout the race and winning in 5:25:36.  Tina narrowly edged out Jennifer Rolfing, who was less than 2 minutes back.  Overall, we had 79 runners complete the full 50k.

While the colder temps may have chased some of the runners off the course early, many of them stayed long afterwards, enjoying the post-race spread and the warm shelter.  So long in fact, that we ran out of chili for the first time ever.  They also did a good job polishing off Paul’s birthday cake, along with the other goodies.  All in all, it was a good start to the 2013 racing season.  

Robert Wehner, RD

New Year's FA REVISED!!!

Because of trail conditions we are going to change the location of the FA 50 on Saturday. We are going to run from the Mackie Shelter instead of the Nordic Shelter. That’s the same one that we use for the John Dick Crusty 50 K (it’s on Hwy ZZ about 0.9 miles Northeast of Hwy 67 and 0.55 miles Northeast of the Scuppernong parking lot on the North side of the road for anyone that needs some clarification). If you get to the stop sign you went too far).

Same start time… 7:00 AM. Also if everyone that comes could kick in a few bucks to Tom Bunk to cover rental of the shelter that would be greatly appreciated.

Hope to see lots of people there!

New Year's FA

LPTRunner, Tom Bunk, has announced he will be hosting a 50K FA event on Saturday, December 29th. 

Because of trail conditions we are going to change the location of the FA 50 on Saturday. We are going to run from the Mackie Shelter instead of the Nordic Shelter. That’s the same one that we use for the John Dick Crusty 50 K (it’s on Hwy ZZ about 0.9 miles Northeast of Hwy 67 and 0.55 miles Northeast of the Scuppernong parking lot on the North side of the road for anyone that needs some clarification). If you get to the stop sign you went too far). 

 
Same start time… 7:00 AM. Also if everyone that comes could kick in a few bucks to Tom Bunk to cover rental of the shelter that would be greatly appreciated.

Everyone is welcome - Hope to see lots of people out there - Should be a great way to close out 2012!