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Now added to the The British Columbia Ultra and Trail Running Record: First and Fastest, an additional category of British Columbia ultra milestones, with a very cursory initial list of names.
Some of the names below no doubt are in a higher category.
Send in the names and months of your first and milestone-attaining races in each category. Nominate your modest friends!
Entirely honour system, but recommended criteria and definitions of ultra races (no counting training runs, private runs, flash events, non-race adventure runs, treadmill runs, imaginary runs, splitting a 100 miler into two ultras, pacing duties, almost-there DNFs, long bike rides, watching movies about ultras, etc.) can be found at: http://www.marathonmaniacs.com/faq_criteria.html
British Columbia Runner Ultra Milestones*
100-time ultra finishers (and first race and #100 race names and dates)
- Ryne Melcher: 140 (June 2010) 1st: Make-A-Wish 25 hour April 1995; 100th: Run for the Toad 50k October 2005
- Gail Forshaw: 121 (June 2010) 1st: Knee Knacker in July 1991; 100th: Diez Vista, April 2007
- Karl Jensen: 133 (June 2010) 1st: Sri Chinmoy 50M March 1992; 100th: Diez Vista 50K April 2008
- Gail Bazely: 121 (June 2010)
- Lori Alexander: 114 (June 2010)
- Moe Boileau: 109 (June 2010)
- Brian VanOene: 108 (June 2010)
- Gilles Barbeau: 106 (June 2010) 1st: Kneeknacker June 1999; 50th: Haney to Harrison 2007; 100th: North Shore Enduro 50K May 2009
- Ean Jackson: 100 (June 2010) 1st: Ultraman Hawaii June 1990; 100th: New Year's Day Fatass 50K January 2010
50-time ultra finishers (and first race and #50 race names and dates)
- Rob Lang ?
- Sally Marcellus ?
- Ron Adams ?
- Al Harman ?
- Barry Hopkins ?
- Rob Grant ?
- Matt Sessions ?
- Bruce Grant
- John Machray ?
- Bill Dagg ?
- George Forshaw: 82 (June 2010) 1st: Knee Knacker in July 1991;50th: _______
- Rick Arikado: 1st: Knee Knacker 50K July 1992; 50th: Knee Knacker 50K July 2008
- Glenn Pace: 1st: Knee Knacker 50K, July 2002; 50th: Frosty Mountain 50K, Sept 2009
- Neil Ambrose 1st: Diez Vista April 2004; 50th: Vancouver 100 January 2010
- David Crerar: 1st: Dirty Duo 50K March 2003; 50th: Orcas Island 50K, February 2010
50-time 100-mile ultra finishers (and first race and #50 race names and dates)
20-time 100-mile ultra finishers (and first race and #20 race names and dates)
- Karl Jensen: 1st: Western States June 1993; 20th: Bighorn June 2005
- Gilles Barbeau: 1st: Western States June 2006; 20th: Stormy August 2009
Comments
Others in the 100 Club
Not sure of any other BC folks that aren't listed but in terms of Canadians I believe the following have already recorded 100:
Esmond Mah, Rolly Portelance, Joe Cleary, Monica Scholz, Ron Gehl (likely has most of any CDN), Doug Barber
Some that may be over 100 but I don't know 100%:
Helen Malmberg, Greg Bohuslawsky, Gord England, Howard Parker, Gord Harthun, Jim Morrison, Wally Herman (not sure how many of his 700+ marathons have been via an ultra).
Ryne
PS. for the months of mine April 1995 and October 2005.
Canucks with 100 Ultras or More
Here's a list that I compiled last year. I tried to contact everyone on the list to verify, but didn't get a response from all, so not convinced my list is complete. Certainly a bit out of date.
Jackson's List
As of this writing, I am bang-on 100 ultras. Here's my list.
Holy cow
the penny just dropped. Gilles did 20 100 milers in three years. W-O-W. That stands out as plain nuts, in a nutty community.
Stats
Howdy.
I'm sitting at 140 ultras after the Lake Youngs 50k this past weekend and it damned well better be 141 sometime on June 26th or early June 27th!
My 1st was the Make-A-Wish 25 hour (on a 235 meter indoor concrete track) in 1995. 100th was Run for the Toad 50k in 2005.
Ryne
HOLY F*$(K
I'm not sure I've gone running 140 times, TOTAL. Good on you Rune!
The List
I was shocked and amazed when you named every ultra you'd done while we were driving down to Western States a couple years ago. You really should write them down before your brain turns to putty. Good luck next weekend, by the way. May the force be with you.
Awesome! Thanks!
awesome! Thanks!
Do you know of any other British Columbians who should be on this list? Jackson said that you kept a list at your old website?