Cle Elum Ridge 50k and 25k Registration Now Available

photo: glenn tachiyama


hello everyone

the registration is now available at databar events.

50k ENTRANTS LIST (as of 8/17/09)

Chris Allan 52 Seattle WA
david baker 40 Seattle WA
JEFFREY BARBER 34 ISSAQUAH WA
Julian Bray 42 Tacoma WA
Jessica DeLine 38 Lake Oswego OR
Mark Dix 49 Bellevue WA
mike eslinger 49 edmonds WA
Lionel Espinoza 44 Arlington WA
Peter Espinoza 14 Arlington WA
Barbara Evans 30 Bellingham WA
Russ Fish 53 Seattle WA
Scott Flett 62 Seattle WA
Shelly Fojtek 37 Bountiful UT
Rhea George 25 Seattle WA
Mark Gilbert 37 Issaquah WA
holly goodwin chittenden 51 duvall WA
Michael Gray 36 Bonney Lake WA
Vicki Griffiths 66 Bellingham WA
Garrett Grove 27 Bellingham WA
Margaret Haferty 53 North Bend WA
Nathan Hahn 39 Portland OR
Francie Hankins 45 Spokane WA
Chris Hawkins 58 Issaquah WA
adam hewey 41 seattle WA
Ray Holden 48 Seattle WA
Stuart Johnson 42 Bainbridge Island WA
Maxim Kazitov 34 Issaquah WA
Gareth Keown 32 Richland WA
Keith Kesselring 49 Arlington WA
Peter Kline 57 Bellevue WA
Megan Kogut 37 Shoreline WA
THOMAS LEITNER 44 WALLA WALLA WA
Sara Malcolm 26 Seattle WA
joe marshall 36 seattle WA
Kyle Mccoy 30 Seattle WA
David Mount 49 Portland OR
Ted Mueser 52 Seattle WA
jeff OHare 42 Mill Creek WA
Jeff Owens 39 Lake Forest Park WA
Josh Pitts 35 kent WA
Alana Prociuk 42 Vancouver CA
Jon Robinson 30 Seattle WA
James Rucker 30 Spokane WA
aaron sheedy 39 Seattle WA
Lia Slemons 29 Seattle WA
Jacob Smith 23 Richland WA
Stephanie Swaisland 49 Kelowna
Jonathan Symmes 43 Sammamish WA
Gennadii Tertychnyi 30 Bothell WA
Lacy Tipton 28 Bellingham WA
Scott Tomchick 43 Lynnwood WA
Rene Unser 33 Kelowna
Anna waters 30 Richland Wa WA
Jessica West 27 Issaquah WA


25K Entrants List (as of 8/17/09)

Pablo Cabrera 32 MOUNT VERNON WA
Allison Camp 22 Seattle WA
Philip Cash 47 Seattle WA
Brenda Cram 43 Seattle WA
Caryn Everingham 20 Seattle WA
Brian Haats 40 Portland OR
Ellie Horsnell 45 Seattle WA
JOSEPH LENNON 60 BELLEVUE WA
Adam LeVasseur 41 Seattle WA
Joanna Mendelsohn 46 Seattle WA
Glen Rossi 35 Snoqualmie WA
Sydnee Stoyles 23 Puyallup WA
Robert Stoyles 80 Stayton OR
Dani Taillon 28 Kelowna, BC, Canada
Ashley Trowbridge 33 Stuart FL
Meagan Walker 44 Seattle WA
Phyllis Ying 22 Seattle WA
Matthew Zawel 43 Issaquah WA

sun mountain makes the news (again).

the local paper did an article before the race and again after the race. and alison again got her picture in one of the local publications, she's quickly (and deservedly so) becoming the cover girl of methow trail running! i think this makes atleast three pictures this year alone! i'm not doing too shaby with one big one on the front page of last week's sports page. we're cool!

Sun Mountain Results

hi everyone

thanks for coming out to sun mountain! i'm so glad the weather was nice as it usually is not like today though, rain and wet snow :(

here are the results. we're missing a few names and a few times but the results should be mostly correct. let me know if you see any corrections that need to be made or if it's your name or time that's missing please send that info to me. thanks.

10k*--26 finishers

0:44:14 #26 M
0:44:53 #25 F
0:47:05 #27 M
0:47:20 Heather Racicot F
0:47:50 #29
0:52:05 Lyn Baker F
0:52:21 Altagracia Saldana F
0:53:20 Jim Szumilla M
0:53:30 Ruben Ramirez M
0:54:06 John Pearch M
0:54:17 Chris Ballard F
0:54:45 #22
0:55:07 #24
0:55:10 Scott Ninneman M
0:55:26 #21
0:55:48 Katie Erickson F
1:00:55 Neil Siviy M
1:00:56 Glen Crane M
1:01:15 Vernon Trevellyan M
1:02:30 Laura Houston F
1:04:45 #28
1:05:20 Valerie Wagner F
1:05:40 Karan Godman F
1:06:30 Elizabeth Clark F
1:18:20 Susana Beltran F
1:18:20 #23

* some runners missed the "sprint" loop near the end of the run shortening their race 0.6 miles.


25k--67 finishers

1:56:36 Andrew Rakestraw M
1:58:13 Frank Jacques M
2:07:37 Dave Mora M
2:10:13 Rob Lang M
2:12:47 Mike Modica M
2:14:39 Erik De Silva M
2:17:40 Eli West M
2:19:22 Lucas Whitcher M
2:20:55 Brandon Henry M
2:22:20 William Worrell M
2:24:35 Ulrike Krotscheck F
2:25:15 Charles LeWarne M
2:25:30 Laura Trevellyan F
2:26:32 Chris Davis M
2:27:06 Elizabeth Joneschild F
2:29:53 Dave Fullford M
2:34:20 Michael O'Grady M
2:34:57 Justin DeLong M
2:35:47 Dan Sears M
2:36:08 Rosemarie Donnelly F
2:36:24 Megan Scudder F
2:36:29 Brooke Cruzat F
2:36:29 Ben Cruzat M
2:37:00 David Aspholm M
2:37:45 Jude Apple M
2:38:13 Nina Bakketun F
2:39:59 Caryn Everingham F
2:39:59 Laury Tarte F
2:41:00 Eric Purpus M
2:43:13 Erin Simms F
2:46:56 Dan Chasan M
2:47:00 Jeff Mikesell M
2:47:20 Mara Lemagie F
2:47:20 Megan Zdancewic F
2:48:10 Challis Stringer F
2:48:40 Shannon Palmer F
2:50:17 Christy Jen F
2:50:50 Dave Molenaar M
2:51:59 Leni Karr F
2:52:39 Kristan Wheeler F
2:52:50 Kimberly Shavender F
2:53:00 Allison Camp F
2:53:00 Angela Loihl F
2:53:30 Seth Layman M
2:53:30 Molly Mae Layman F
2:54:12 Julei Hinty F
2:54:52 Pamela Jacques F
2:55:00 Wayne Ballew M
2:57:52 Tara Gill F
2:59:45 Heidi Perry F
3:00:30 Jason Bator M
3:02:50 Sophia Dulak F
3:03:00 Phyillis Ying F
3:11:00 Gail Forshaw F
3:11:00 George Forshaw M
3:16:00 Anne Raisler F
3:22:00 Jamie Keizer F
3:29:30 Ehben Eliot M
3:29:50 Judy Kotopski F
3:29:59 Jennifer Seward F
3:33:30 Russ Fish M
3:33:40 Genissa Sygitowicz F
3:37:05 Rebecca Joyce F
3:40:00 Tamara Cartwright F
3:41:00 Karen Wiggins F
4:17:20 Cheryl Kelly F
4:50:37 Michael Sebring M

50k--52 finishers

4:19:40 Brian Morrison M
4:24:10 Chris Twardczik M
4:35:04 Justin Yates M
4:38:40 Matthew Simms M
4:40:10 Hozumi Nakai M
4:40:10 Miles Ohlrich M
4:40:10 Scott Tremblay M
4:48:30 Brendan Trimboli M
4:59:27 Jon Robinson M
5:05:55 Erik Brooks M
5:15:45 Bruce Grant M
5:23:10 Rob Fransen M
5:30:24 Matthew Hagenah M
5:33:37 Jamie Gifford M
5:34:16 Jason Dashow M
5:35:15 Shawn Wallich M
5:35:40 Dan Probst M
5:38:03 Chase Mueller M
5:38:10 Dan Baier M
5:38:30 Barbara Evans F
5:42:20 Greg Ripley M
5:43:50 Marty Fagan M
5:49:10 Joe Marshall M
5:55:02 Wendy Wheeler-Jacobs F
5:59:20 Nick Cooksey M
5:59:20 Deb McInally F
6:02:10 Kathleen Egan F
6:06:14 Phil Gregory M
6:09:10 Ben Barlag M
6:10:50 Glen Mangiantini M
6:13:30 Francie Hankins F
6:17:50 Michelle Maislen F
6:19:30 Kris Ryding F
6:20:00 Caroline Ly F
6:25:00 Martha Grant F
6:27:20 Mark Warner M
6:32:20 Jon Karlen M
6:36:50 Janet Casal F
6:46:30 Schon Branum M
6:51:45 Joel Pederson M
6:53:18 Gary Marr M
6:54:00 Blair Williams M
7:00:30 Wild Bill Voiland M
7:06:40 Stuart Johnston M
7:08:30 Michael Cartwright M
7:12:39 Rich White M
7:12:39 Linda Barton F
7:14:40 Adam LeVasseur M
7:16:10 Scotty Railton M
7:43:30 Peter Kline M
7:54:10 Rainer Schulz M
8:05:50 Rick Hasse M

latest course update

hi everyone

the weather has finally started acting like normal, it's been sunny and warm the last 3 days and is supposed to be same for the next two days. the course has improved greatly but there's still a large portion of the trails under a thin but stubborn layer of snow. i'll continue to monitor the situation and make a final decision on the routes on wed nite/thursday morning. but at this point i would guess we're looking at a 2-3 loop 50k, 1 or 1.5 loop 25k, and the 10k and 1k courses also might be different than previously shown.

stay tuned and think warm thoughts!
james

Sun Mountain Update #2

Hi everyone

here's a quick update.

the snow is not melting as fast as i had hoped, the warm weather has yet to arrive. although it's forecated to finally begin tommarow but i'm guessing i'll have to make changes to the courses to avoid the worst trail conditions. i've got a few options in mind but i'll have to wait and see if these predicted warmer temps. actually happen and what that does to change the current conditions. no matter what the race will happen! the 50k and maybe 25k might have to do multiple loops if there is a limited amount of useable trails. i think by monday or tuesday nite i'll have a much better idea and i will update again then. and then on thursday i'll make a final decision on the routes. the start/finish location will not change. i probably won't get maps up on the website until thursday nite at the earliest but will try to have hard copies at the starting line for folks to take if they want but they will not be nessecary since the course will be adequately marked. special shoes or traction devices i'm guessing won't be needed but i'll be sure to let you all know if that changes-- right now there are very few icy spots and ski trails are actually in good shape for running on but the snowshoe trails and the few trails that are not used at all in the winter are the ones that are the most irratating to try to run on.

On a lighter note in keeping with the tradition of all my races we'll have yummy food and tasty drinks at the finish . we'll have great pizza from East 20 Pizza in Winthrop and great local micro brewed beer from The Old Schoolhouse Brewery also from Winthrop. We'll also have juice and cookies or some other kind of snacks. Vegans or other folks with dietary situations please email me to let me know so i can meet your needs. Also to reduce waste we highly encourage you to bring your own plate and cup/beer stein from home to use for the post race meal!

We'll also have custom awards made by local metal artist Jerry Merz for the top male and female finsihers in the 50k, 25k and 10k. And be sure to stick around after you finish we'll have random drawing prizes throught out the day from some our sponsors such as: Winthrop Mountain Sports, Methow Cycle and Sport, Nuun, and Bluebird Grain Farms.

Also please carpool to the start. The parking is limited and it's just the cool thing to do! if you need help finding a carpool buddy check out the the page on the blogsite: http://rainshadow-running.blogspot.com/2009/03/please-carpool-to-sun-mountain.html

ok thanks again and stay tuned for more info to come...
james