Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Terrapin 2011 Race Reports

Craig Burns:

http://www.constantforwardmotion.org/2011/03/fast-women-and-buzzards.html

John Leonardis:

http://cookrunbeer.blogspot.com/2011/03/terrapin-mountain-50k-lesson-learned.html

Jeremy Ramsey:

http://mountainmovinandgroovin.blogspot.com/2011/03/having-blast-at-terrapin.html

Liz Barry:

http://lizruns.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/race-report-terrapin-mountain-50k/

Rebekah Trittipoe:

http://rebekahtrittipoe.blogspot.com/search/label/Running

Dani Seiss:

http://danirunner.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/some-climb-to-get-to-terrapin/

James Ingrassia:

http://morethanpaceandstride.blogspot.com/2011/03/race-report-terrapin-mountain-half.html

Chelsea Jack:

http://thetabletalk.org/2011/03/just-keep-running-terrapin-mountain-50k-half-marathon/

Tom Mueller:

http://mastercompetitor.blogspot.com/2011/03/terrapin-mountain-50k.html

Cory McArtor:

The weekend I had the privelege of running the Terrapin Mountain 50k for the 2nd time.  The short version of the race report is: Not enough training, very sick all week before the race, decide to at least start and see how I feel, go out slow, feel better and better throughout the race, beat last years time by about 12 minutes.  The longer version is below.

I ran Terrapin Mountain last march as my 3rd ultra and first mountain race and immediately fell in love.  It's not that flatter courses aren't good, because I like them too, but there is just something I love about running through the mountains.  After running it the first time, I decided that I had to come back and run it again if I got the chance.

Because I go to a military school I have lots of friends who are runners.  This year when I signed up I started asking my friends if they wanted to come run too, and I managed to get two to come run the 1/2 marathon as their first trail race, and three to come run the 50k.  Two of them were first time ultrarunners (including my girlfriend), and for one, it was her first race longer than 10k.

Leading up to the race, I got busy with school and life and failed to do any really meaningful training.  I decided a couple weeks before the race that I would go and plan on running slowly if I had to, but I figured I would have no trouble finishing within 9 hours.   I figured this would work fine, but then when race week rolled around I got very sick.  I thought it would pass before the race but as the week went on I got sicker and sicker.  Late in the week I was scheduled to have a fitness test, and Friday when I took it I got dizzy after each event.  I decided that I would drive down with my friends that were running, but unless I was suddenly better I wouldn't run.  When I woke up Saturday morning I still didn't feel fully healthy, but I felt good enough to start and see how it went.

I started the race with my friends, but we quickly dispersed on the first climb up to the Camping Gap aid station. I decided to hold back a lot since I didn't know how my legs would react to so little training.  After the aid station I let my legs go a bit to see how the felt.  Everything felt great so I ran a pretty good pace all the way down past the 2nd aid station until the bottom of the mountain.  I decided that for now I would just keep up the pattern of relaxing on the climbs and pushing the downhills.  This worked until about mile 16.  By the time I left Camping Gap for the 2nd time to head up the White Oak Ridge loop I was starting to realize that I didn't really feel sick anymore.  I actually felt really good.  I hiked up to the top, punched my bib, and then cruised on down back to Camping Gap for the third time.  I was feeling really good, but having lost one of my gaiters after Grindstone, my shoes were getting lots of stuff in them so I took a short break and dumped out my shoes.

I hiked up Terrapin, passing a couple people on the way up and realizing that I felt much better than I had at that point a year ago.  Then I was hating life, taking breaks every so often and wondering why I had ever wanted to do something like this.  This time it didn't seem so bad.  At the summit I got a picture and headed down.  I had been dreading the descent, because remembering it from last year it had been horrendous because I couldn't run the steep and rocky parts, but this time it gave me no problems at all.  I ended up passing quite a few people on the way down and never had any trouble with the rocks.  I kept waiting to hit the wall and start feeling like crap again, but by the time I hit the last aid station at Terrapin Mountain Lane it still hadn't come.  I looked at my watch, and despite expecting a really slow finish due to being sick and undertrained I realized that I was on track to finish a little faster than last year.

At this point I started pushing.  I ran anything uphills that weren't to steep, and pushed it hard on downhills and flats.  I decided to see how much I could beat my previous time by, and so I had constant motivation to keep pushing it.  Eventually I reached the road and gave it as big a kick as I could still mangage.  I was still feeling pretty good, and so I even managed to sprint the last 50 yards or so and get a good heel click in as I crossed the finish in 6:34, 12 minutes faster than last year.  Pretty good for almost no training and being sick for a week.  I've been thinking about it since, and I'm still not sure how it happened.  The only thing I can think of is that the year of experience helped.

My friends all loved their first mountain race.  Emily (my girlfriend) won her age group with a 6:23, my friend Jake won his age group with a 5:42, and my friend Ashley ran a 7:02 in her first race longer than a 10k.  I pretend to be disappointed that two of them beat me, but really I'm pretty happy.  I'll just have to train more now.  In a month Jake and I will head back down to the mountains to run Promised Land.  This time it will be my roommate coming with us to run his first ultra.

-Cory McArtor, Annapolis Maryland

Saturday, March 26, 2011

2011 Terrapin Mountain 50km Ultra Run Men's Champion, Jake Reed and top finishers

Congratulations to our 50km men's champion!


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 In order the top 3 men were:
1.Jake Reed (Seen above in picture)
2.Eric Grossman
3.David Frazier

Click on these racers names to see their times and entire race profile on eco-xsports.com. 

Click here to see all the 50km ultra run stats online.

2011 Terrapin Mountain 50km Ultra Run Woman's Champion, Sara Angel and top finishers

Congratulations to our 50km woman's champion!


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In order the top 3 women were:
1.Sara Angel (Seen above in picture)
2.Sophie Speidel
3.Elizabeth Minnick

Click on these racers names to see their times and entire race profile on eco-xsports.com. 

Click here to see all the 50km ultra run stats online.

2011 Terrapin Mountain Half-Marathon Trail Run Men's Top Finishers

Congratulations to our top 3 men finishers in the half-marathon.
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1. Rob Cook (Seen finishing above)
2. Jordan Miller
3. Mark Herzog


Click on these racers names to see their times and entire race profile on eco-xsports.com.

Click here to see all the half-marathon stats online.

2011 Terrapin Mountain Half-Marathon Trail Run Women's Top Finishers

Congratulations to our top 3 women finishers in the half-marathon.


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1. Eliza O'Connell  (Far Right) 
2. Lissette O'Neal (Middle)
3. Sally Moylan (Far Left)


Click on these racers names to see their times and entire race profile on eco-xsports.com. 


Click here to see all the half-marathon stats online.

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mtn - Audio Update - Clark Zealand

Friday, March 25, 2011

2011 Terrapin Mtn - 3/25 Audio Update - Clark Zealand

2011 Terrapin Mountain Ultra Run Webcast Links

Follow the 2011 Terrapin Mountain 50km and Half-Marathon Trail Run through these links:
Eco-X Facebook Page
Eco-X Photo Stream
50km Ultra Run Splits and Webcast Results
Half Marathon Trail Run Splits and Webcast Results
Eco-X Youtube Channel

As we have access to the internet on location around the race course we will be posting blog updates, answering Facebook questions and requests as well as posting photos of the race and splits as they come in at each aid station.  Use these links to get all your race information.  The webcast will begin tomorrow(3/26) between 7am and 7:45am.

Eco-X Tech Team

Thursday, March 24, 2011

2011 Terrapin Mtn 50k & Half-marathon Seedings

50k

Bib# First Last Gender Age State
1 Jake Reed Male 23 Virginia
2 Eric Grossman Male 42 Virginia
3 David Frazier Male 25 Virginia
4 Jeremy Ramsey Male 35 Virginia
5 Frank Gonzalez Male 34 Virginia
6 Sean Andrish Male 41 Virginia
7 Jason Lantz Male 29 Pennsylvania
8 Jordan Whitlock Male 23 Virginia
9 Brian greeley Male 27 District of Columbia
10 Darryl Smith Male 28 Maryland
11 Matthew Bugin Male 29 Virginia
12 Andrew Jenner Male 28 Virginia
13 Micah Jackson Male 31 Virginia
14 Aaron Mulder Male 36 Pennsylvania
15 Christopher Palladino Male 39 Pennsylvania
16 Andy Bruner Male 30 Georgia
17 Joe Dudak Male 37 Virginia
18 Jason Captain Male 34 Virginia
19 Kevin smith Male 39 Virginia
20 Jaime Azuaje Male 23 Virginia
21 Chris Bernard Male 21 Virginia
22 Blaine Lewis Male 49 Virginia
23 Jeremy Alsop Male 27 North Carolina
24 Marlin Yoder Male 58 Virginia
25 Tyler Peek Male 45 North Carolina
26 Ken Gregorich Male 52 California
27 Christopher calfee Male 43 Virginia
28 Scott Bartram Male 49 Virginia
29 Jay Avitable Male 50 Connecticut
30 Thomas Syre Male 24 Virginia
31 Rick Gray Male 50 Tennessee
32 Will Jorgensen Male 51 Tennessee
33 Jeromy Gallant Male 27 Virginia
34 Grattan Garbee Male 48 Virginia
35 Jarett Tighe Male 43 Virginia
36 J.T. Witt Male 30 Virginia
37 David Snipes Male 43 Virginia
38 Marc Griffin Male 35 Virginia
39 Todd Hacker Male 31 Virginia
40 Michael Dunlop Male 41 Virginia
41 John Cooper Male 56 Virginia
42 Kelly golden Male 44 Virginia
43 Mosi Smith Male 33 Virginia
44 Michael Tietz Male 24 Virginia
45 Jason duelge Male 42 Michigan
46 Dennis Kelleher Male 49 Virginia
47 Justin Blessing Male 24 Virginia
48 Timothy Ebersole Male 28 Pennsylvania
49 Ryan Fulwider Male 35 Virginia
50 Chris Williams Female 49 Virginia
51 Michael Stadnisky Male 28 Virginia
52 Louis Kugel Male 34 Pennsylvania
53 Brandon Davis Male 28 North Carolina
54 Ned Barrett Male 48 South Carolina
55 Scott eney Male 35 North Carolina
56 Ricahrd Key Male 41 Virginia
57 Nikolas Rogers Male 39 New York
58 Ed Duval Male 53 Virginia
59 Tim Miller Male 42 Virginia
60 Jacob FOX Male 20 Michigan
61 Adam Eidson Male 37 Virginia
62 James Work Male 41 West Virginia
63 Jim Ashworth Male 48 Virginia
64 Eric Fogleman Male 50 North Carolina
65 Joe Schramka Male 42 District of Columbia
66 Chris Wise Male 42 Georgia
67 Jack Broaddus Male 61 Virginia
68 Ernesto Casarez Male 54 Maryland
69 Jan Grajkowski Male 21 Virginia
70 Dan Broom Male 36 Connecticut
71 William Turrentine Male 62 Virginia
72 Adam Matheson Male 31 Virginia
73 Shawn Krause Male 31 Maryland
74 Carter Swamp Male 36 Virginia
75 Jerry anderson Male 59 Tennessee
76 Shawn Nocita Male 48 Pennsylvania
77 Brian Kelleher Male 43 Virginia
78 J David MacLuskie Male 38 Virginia
79 Guy Love Male 20 Virginia
80 Paul Scanlon Male 27 Virginia
81 Daren Marceau Male 49 North Carolina
83 Farouk Elkassed Male 61 Virginia
84 Michael ballard Male 41 Virginia
85 Stephen cooper Male 56 Maryland
86 Jeff pence Male 52 Virginia
87 Thomas Mueller Male 54 North Carolina
88 Blake Edmondson Male 27 Virginia
89 Jim McKenzie Male 50 North Carolina
90 Brad Fogleman Male 23 North Carolina
91 Nelson Stritehoff Male 59 Maryland
92 Mark Henry Male 24 Virginia
93 Cory McArtor Male 22 Kentucky
94 Doug Sullivan Male 49 District of Columbia
95 Drew Fratrick Male 47 Virginia
96 Jeff Godin Male 43 Massachusetts
97 Dane Czaplicki Male 33 Pennsylvania
98 Bob Anderson Male 64 Virginia
99 Gordon Thomson Male 52 Virginia
100 Art Perraud Male 53 Maryland
101 Sophie Speidel Female 48 Virginia
102 Mary Kreis Female 41 Pennsylvania
103 Kim Owens Female 39 Michigan
104 Jennifer Nichols Female 32 Virginia
105 Jamie Darling Female 22 New York
106 Rebekah Trittipoe Female 54 Virginia
107 Jennifer Fleming Female 36 Pennsylvania
108 Elizabeth Minnick Female 30 Virginia
109 Kerry Owens Female 47 District of Columbia
110 Martha Wright Female 50 Virginia
111 RuthAnn Helfrick Female 44 Pennsylvania
112 Chelsie Viar Female 30 Virginia
113 Liz Barry Female 26 Virginia
114 Sara Angel Female 29 North Carolina
115 Katie Bigham Female 33 Virginia
116 Carrie Lombardo Female 40 Connecticut
117 Gail Leedy Female 57 North Carolina
118 Tammy Godin Female 47 Massachusetts
119 Melissa Upchurch Female 41 Virginia
120 Marianna Inslee Female 45 Virginia
121 Suzie Spangler Female 40 Maryland
122 Alicia Taylor Female 32 Virginia
123 Dorothy Hunter Female 37 North Carolina
124 Heather Bowling Female 23 Virginia
125 Carol Bartram Female 47 Virginia
126 Daniele Seiss Dolges Female 40 Maryland
127 Deb Warrick Female 48 Virginia
128 Heather Royer Female 49 Virginia
129 Lesley McPhatter Female 47 Virginia
130 Janice Willey Female 42 South Carolina
131 Sheryl Mawn Female 46 Virginia
132 Jennifer Broton Female 38 West Virginia
133 Terri Ripley Female 48 Virginia
134 Deborah Grishaw Female 39 Virginia
135 Linda Wack Female 55 Maryland
136 Shelley Corrigan Female 46 Virginia
137 Liane Axe Female 32 Virginia
138 Caroline Williams Male 39 Virginia
139 Diane Taylor Female 54 Tennessee
140 Kari Anderson Female 49 Virginia
141 Pam Long Female 36 North Carolina
142 Christine Bone Female 39 Virginia
143 Ashley Mannix Female 20 Maryland
144 Emily Favorite Female 20 Wisconsin
145 Maureen O'Connell Female 46 Virginia
146 Marcus Bennett Male 43 North Carolina
147 Brad lowery Male 37 Virginia
148 Samuel Lowe Male 46 Virginia
149 Gregg Holst Male 52 Pennsylvania
150 Jon westmoreland Male 45 North Carolina
151 Mike Noel Male 39 Virginia
152 Mark Persinger Male 37 West Virginia
153 Bob coyne Male 64 Maryland
154 Eric Levy-Myers Male 50 Virginia
155 Jim MOORE Male 40 WEST VIRGINIA
156 Rush Combs Male 29 North Carolina
157 Leonard Martin Male 57 Tennessee
158 Doug dawkins Male 59 North Carolina
159 Matthew Towles Male 36 Virginia
160 Timothy Scott Male 35 North Carolina
161 John Hoffman Male 48 Virginia
162 Kenny Wheeler Male 50 West Virginia
163 Craig Burns Male 56 Virginia
164 Devin Blythe Male 33 Virginia
165 Robert Burgess Male 59 Virginia
166 Tony Martin Male 41 Virginia
167 Fred Wilson Male 56 Virginia
168 Jonathan Hooker Male 31 Virginia
169 John leonardis Male 29 Maryland
170 Timothy Perry Male 47 Virginia
171 Andrew Holte Male 28 North Carolina
172 Billy Cabell Male 33 Virginia
173 Frank Rodriguez Male 49 Virginia
174 Bryan States Male 28 Maryland
175 Kurt Luedke Male 53 Virginia
176 David Hammock Male 47 Virginia
177 James Scanlon Male 25 Virginia
178 Justin Elliott Male 22 Virginia
179 Martin Moylan Male 41 Maryland
180 Colton Amato Male 17 Virginia
181 Peter Amato Male 44 Virginia
182 Alan Zwart Male 40 District of Columbia
183 Eric Koontz Male 32 Virginia
184 Thomas Nagies Male 16 North Carolina
185 mark iscool Male 54 Virginia
186 Chris Gingrich Male 35 Virginia
187 Ben Thompson Male 18 North Carolina
188 Victor Serrano Male 33 Georgia
189 Stephen Page Male 22 Virginia
190 Matthew Holliday Male 19 North Carolina
191 Danny mowers Male 33 Pennsylvania
192 Casey O'Donnell Male 32 Virginia
193 Ryan Earle Male 30 Virginia
194 Chase Ross Male 19 Ohio
195 Wayne Ross Male 44 Ohio
196 Daniel Trick Male 22 Ohio

Half-marathon

Bib # First Last Gender Age State
82 Mike Donahue Male 38 Georgia
201 Elliot Nuss Male 19 Virginia
202 Tres Binkley Male 27 North Carolina
203 Jordan Miller Male 24 Virginia
204 bill vickery Male 40 Virginia
205 sam dangc Male 23 Virginia
206 joseph alderson Male 29 Virginia
207 Donnie Wilkerson Male 59 Virginia
208 Stephen Bozeman Male 64 Virginia
209 Jake Carlson Male 24 Virginia
210 Derek Carpenter Male 20 Virginia
211 CJ Collins Male 21 Virginia
212 Thomas Cook Male 29 Virginia
213 Lucas Dollarhite Male 22 Virginia
214 Isaac Goodin Male 20 Virginia
215 MARK HERZOG Male 18 Virginia
216 James Hood Male 25 Virginia
217 Brenden Johann Male 18 North Carolina
218 Darren LePere Male 22 Pennsylvania
219 Jeff Mather Male 27 Ontario
220 Matthew Mitchell Male 31 Virginia
221 Zach Quigg Male 19 Virginia
222 Andrew Ray Male 19 Virginia
223 David Parrotte Male 22 Virginia
224 Dylan Perry Male 19 Maryland
225 Dwayne Saunders Male 19 Maryland
226 Paul Rutemiller Male 19 Ohio
227 Charles Schlosser Male 25 Virginia
228 Scott Smith Male 27 Georgia
229 James Stronza Male 31 Virginia
230 machen white Male 33 South Carolina
231 John Bolton Male 59 Virginia
232 David Bolton Male 26 Virginia
233 Dennis Bridges Male 55 Maryland
234 Berkley Collins III Male 41 Virginia
235 Tom Connaughton Male 41 Virginia
236 Rob Cook Male 39 Virginia
237 Tim Craft Male 54 Virginia
238 Rick Diecchio Male 62 Virginia
239 Seamus Donahue Male 14 Virginia
240 Scott Dwyer Male 28 Virginia
241 Tom Eick Male 53 Virginia
242 David Gardner Male 48 Virginia
243 Stuart Graydon Male 28 Virginia
244 Wayne Ingram Male 52 South Carolina
245 James Ingrassia Male 36 Virginia
246 Frank Jack Male 51 Virginia
247 Rodney Jackson Male 44 Virginia
248 Jim Juritsch Male 45 Virginia
249 Keith King Male 40 South Carolina
250 Scott Massie Male 31 Virginia
251 Craig M Miller Male 58 Virginia
252 James Miner Male 62 New York
253 Allen Montgomery Male 72 South Carolina
254 Everett Mounts Male 66 Virginia
255 Michael OGrady Male 57 Maryland
256 Todd Olsen Male 47 Virginia
257 Craig Penrose Male 46 Virginia
258 Roger Persinger Male 64 West Virginia
259 Wirt Shinault Male 51 Virginia
260 Andrew Sullivan Male 22 Virginia
261 Matt Thomas Male 35 South Carolina
262 Todd Thomas Male 36 Virginia
263 Kevin Throckmorton Male 46 West Virginia
264 Robert Trent Male 33 Virginia
265 Jerry Truax Male 27 Virginia
266 Nicolas Velilla Male 19 South Carolina
267 Scott Wells Male 43 Virginia
268 Kevin Willis Male 44 Virginia
269 Evan Wilson Male 25 Virginia
270 John Wingfield Male 54 Virginia
271 Joe Wood Male 45 Virginia
272 Eliza O'Connell Female 40 Virginia
301 Heather Zealand Female 31 Virginia
302 Andrea Zealand Female 36 Virginia
303 Robin Grossman Female 36 Virginia
304 Tammy Gray Female 56 Tennessee
305 Sarah Heiser Female 25 Virginia
306 Emily Bell Female 17 Virginia
307 Kate Gant Female 51 New Jersey
308 Marie Bolton Female 29 Virginia
309 Erin Valliere Female 34 Virginia
310 Christina Bentrup Female 28 New Mexico
311 Sarah Miller Female 29 Virginia
312 Julie Baty Female 38 Virginia
313 calena lowery Female 38 Virginia
314 Mary Riser Female 55 Virginia
315 Dawn Dunlop Female 45 Virginia
316 Sarah Dunlop Female 38 Virginia
317 Yvonne mcmahon Female 51 Virginia
318 Loretta Cataldi Female 42 Virginia
319 Amanda Linn Female 27 Virginia
320 Gretchen McIntyre Female 25 California
321 Sally Moylan Female 26 Virginia
322 Ellyse Marchand Female 20 Michigan
323 Charmin Thomas Female 40 Virginia
324 CHRISTY HOWARD Female 37 Virginia
325 Renee Draney Female 45 Virginia
326 Brandy Harris Female 21 Virginia
327 Cate Sheerin Female 22 Maryland
328 Cathy Edson Female 54 New Jersey
329 CHELSEA JACK Female 19 Virginia
330 Samantha Mitchell Female 28 Virginia
331 Dana Williams Female 21 Virginia
332 Lorraine Moore Female 47 Virginia
333 Aimee Shinault Female 33 Virginia
334 Jennifer Wright Female 35 Virginia
335 Rachel Corrigan Female 16 Virginia
336 Heather Scanlon Female 26 Virginia
337 Vickie Fogleman Female 53 North Carolina
338 Alyson Ramsey Female 34 Virginia
339 Wendy golden Female 43 Virginia
340 Reilly Kennedy Female 38 Virginia
341 Kathryn Czaplicki Female 37 Pennsylvania
342 Annastacia Marchand Female 22 Michigan
343 cheyenne craig Female 32 Virginia
344 Kellie Hudson Female 37 Virginia
345 Rachel King Female 40 South Carolina
346 Julie Stas Female 21 Pennsylvania
347 Shannon Howell Female 32 South Carolina
348 Sarah Smith Female 29 Virginia
349 Lissette O'Neal Female 26 Virginia
350 siobhan leonardis Female 28 Maryland
351 Christiann Rogers Female 51 Virginia
352 Marty Lindemann Female 50 Virginia
353 Alexis Thomas Female 28 Virginia
354 Denise Lowe Female 42 Virginia
355 Amy Franzelas Female 34 Virginia
356 Jill Cusack Female 43 New York
357 Amy Koudelka Female 40 Virginia