Regular registration for
Wulfman's CDT-14K race reached its ceiling number of 240 entrants on
Saturday, 24 March -- a month earlier than last year. There are, however,
still ways that one can gain access to run this race. There are still some
"Golden VIP"
charity registration slots available
here for $100 each, and the proceeds from those fees (along with all
other race proceeds) will directly benefit trails in the
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The other way to obtain a race entry
slot is to hover on the online registration page until the 2-stage
cancellation deadlines (on 7 & 18 June) approach and then hope to
get lucky and claim one of those regular registration slots if/when they
open. Registration
closes
ultimately and tightly
at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, 19 June.
Can't get your trail fix from Wulfman? Try one of the
following late June alternatives:
30 June:
Bozeman's Jim Bridger Trail Run
Details, and
Livingston's
Rodeo Run.
The 100 mile Waterton
Glacier Relay is a beautiful and challenging race that
takes in Waterton Lakes National Park and Glacier
National Park (and crosses through the border at Chief
Mountain) on 23 June.
Details.
The
old Milwaukee Road trestle that straddles high above
Roosevelt Drive is new again following a $224,000 rehab
project. Now, hikers and bikers can safely navigate the
historic structure, which connects
the
Thompson Park
trail system to the Continental Divide Trail, southeast of Butte.
Trail tactics: building Buttes single tracks with a double track excavator.
Montana's highest point lies at 3900 meters atop Granite Peak.
Ever wonder what the
ascent record is for running there?
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Former Dillon Beaver, Lyle Weese, ran a
4:01 mile on University of Washington's indoor track on 11 Feb.
Coach K recently
interviewed Weese who is training in Bozeman to qualify for his
third consecutive trip to the US Olympic Trials in the 3000 m steeplechase.
Montana's number one runner,
Tony Banovich, was recently featured on 406running.com (the State's
new website for runners). In a more recent blog by Banovich (under his web
ID, The Muddy Buzzard) he also revealed that his
wings have been clipped.
Helena's
Mike Wolfe won the 2012 Winter Triathlon National Championship at
Homestake Lodge.
Nikki Kimball joined the 40+ age category last year and the Muddy Buzzard
ranked her
first among Montana's masters runners in 2012.
Ballantine's Sarah Graves
competed gallantly finishing the
Olympic Trials Marathon in 2:50:16. Graves qualified for the Trials
only after multiple tries before
she got it right!
The
Muddy Buzzard also recently ranked Graves first among Montana's open-division female runners
for 2011.
50 year old Don Demetriades of Bozeman recently entered his sixth decade
of life, and now he is the only runner in Earth's recorded history who has
run a sub-2:50 marathon in 5 of his 6 decades of life. Sadly, he didn't do
one before his tenth birthday.
Hear interview.
Two founders of Bozeman's Big Sky Wind Drinkers running club
passed away
recently. They were Ed Anacker (immortalized as the founder of "Ed
Anacker's Bridger Ridge Run") and Frank Newman.
2:03:38! Men's world record in Berlin Marathon by Kenya's Patrick
Makau.
Video
of race's last 15 minutes.
The previous record of 2:03:59 was set 3 years earlier in the same race by
Ethiopia's Haili Gebresalassie. Geb dropped out of this year's race with 7
km left to go, after Makau shook him with a
"zig-zag" strategy. Makau was rewarded by Athletics Kenya which named
him to the
Kenyan Olympic team
for the Marathon. Geb has to
race again in January to get a qualifying time to be on Ethiopia's
Marathon team.
Video and results from the Bridger Ridge Run, where the amazing Scott
Creel of Bozeman won for the tenth time. When asked the secret to success
running the Ridge Run, Nicole Hunt of Deer Lodge (who has walked parts of the
course) said "a combination of guts and... guts. You have to be
willing to go for it on the down hills without fear of injury."
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Butte's Amber Wood-Jensen won Missoula's 5K
Run For The Trees in 20:52.
Butte's Piss & Moans Runners spotlighted by
406running.com.
Anaconda AOH races
produced hot competition and windy times. Suzy Kaluza, Don Sundberg, &
Nicole Hunt each produced an all-time age-group record.
Wulfman's CDT-14K is Coach K's favorite race. He said so in this
406 interview. Also read what
Coach K blogged
about
Wulfman's race
last year.
The Montana Men's Masters Mile was held on MSU's indoor track on February
10th and Helena's Jesse Zentz won
with a searing 64-sec last quarter,
and in doing so hacked over 4 seconds off the previous event record. He
finished in 4:29.62. Amazingly, in the same race, two other runners
conquered the rarely accomplished sub-5-after-50 barrier with Bozeman's
50-year-old Shaun Marshall-Pryde leading the way in 4:53.52.
Results
Video
Race story from the stallion's mouth
Fabulous
Michele Bazzanella of Butte ranked high on the Muddy
Buzzard's 2011 list.
Why not run in high heels on a treadmill?
Team Green
came home from Great Falls with girl's
Cyppee Cup.
Why not to do track workouts
How close can one get to the finish line without finishing?
It was an
epic
dual to the finish line, like none seen before or since, and it was
filmed.
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UM's Lynn Reynolds ran
8:55 for the steeple chase, a time just one second off his PR set last
year. This was his second sub-9 in the event.
The
story of UM's distance runners' coach, the Olympian, Courtney
Babcock.
MSU's Sub-4 man Patrick Casey will now be
a Sooner.
Heartbreaking
loss of shoe for Montana's Lynn Reynolds disrupted chance to qualify
for NCAA XC Nationals.
Two former Beavers tangle in
UM XC meet. Reynolds dramatically tops Weese.
UM's
Lynn Reynolds, the former Dillon Beaver, earned a spot on the starting
line of steeplechase at the
NCAA's West Regional Championship, at hallowed Hayward Field in Eugene
Oregon. Earlier this season Reynolds placed 6th in
Big Sky Conference steeplechase with a 9:07 time. He had also
previously produced a
12-second PR in a Stanford steeplechase with
a time of 8:54, which was good for 15th place in his heat at the highly competitive
Payton Jordan Invitational.
Former Butte Bulldog Keli Dennehy, now racing as
a freshwoman for the UM, placed 7th in
Big Sky Conf 1500 m in a time of 4:32, and then came back an hour
later to place 5th in the 5000 m in 17:14.
MSU's Patrick Casey (the former Laurel Locomotive) became
the first human in the history of the Earth to eclipse the 4-minute mile
barrier inside Montana's borders. Remarkably Casey did his 3:59.76 at
Bozeman's elevation on the college's supped up, banked 200m indoor track
with not one other runner in the race running a single step
at Casey's
pace.
YouTube
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Anaconda's
Olivia Wood runs
sub-12 minute 3200 m race in Missoula
Butte High's Josh Panasuk runs fast on ice and snow. In February he broke Jeff Thomas' venerable course record in
the
Frigid Digger 3-mile race while running over a skiff of snow. More
recently, he ran on slick ice and still recorded the fifth fastest time
ever in the
Big Butte 5K.
406running.com interviewed Bigfork's sensational runner, Makena Morley,
after she finished in
ninth place at prestigious national HS xc championships -- aka "Foot
Locker." The last Montana runner to compete in FL nationals was the legendary Zoe
Nelson. Want to know even more about the
Bigfork Morleys?
Anaconda's
Olivia Wood sixth, Butte High's
Josh Panasuk seventh at State XC in Missoula
Area prep harriers register times at Mountain West run Complete
results for
boys ...
girls
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