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Race Report: 2007 Eugene Marathon
Uh…yes
it does. Especially when you add Boomer, K.C., The Bavarian,
T-Bone, the Endorpheinds, Coop, Josh, The Rage and everyone
else that finally got to sleep in their own beds the night before
a marathon...which hasn’t happened since 1982 in this town.
Medford,
OR - While Southern Oregon natives as in the likes of Kyle Gee
and The Rage might have a special appreciation for the culture
of this part of the state, K.C. Taylor might say "culture
schmulture." An even ten miler is what brings him back here
year after year, and he could give a rip about whether or not
his Toyota pickup fits in or not.
With
the Flintstonian (e.g. as in Bam-Bam) finish from a year ago firmly
etched into the lore of this local ten klick, it was inevitable
that the pre-race buzz would include some speculation about how
tightly The Flintstones would finish come show time this year.
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While this year’s Eugene contingent at the 2005 California International Marathon didn’t include every age division, it came awful close in covering four decades. And they all had their stories about how they got to this years’ starting line…including three idiots who otherwise would still be trying to put on their tire chains north of the Californian border had it not been for that merciful Oregon State Trooper. But even though K.C. Taylor, Todd Bosworth and The Rage were allowed to continue their journey for another 300 miles into sunny California, it wasn’t a whole lot warmer 26 miles east of California’s state capitol building as we were dropped off at the starting line...But as any runner knows, at some point come race time, bullshit walks and it’s time to run…and this time, it was the Granddaddy of all race distances: The Marathon. We’d trained, traveled, roomed dined and whined together…and now, it was time to run…all twelve of us. (More on the California International Marathon) Complete California International Marathon Report Bosworth's Race Report: 2005 McKenzie River Trail Run 50K Walking into Harbick's Country Store in McKenzie Bridge is like stepping into a time warp. The classic "General Store." They have generally everything. Hot food, cold food, dry goods, cleaning supplies, clothing, fishing and hunting supplies, tools etc. My specific goal was to find the right pair of gloves. I ran the McKenzie 50k Trail Run in 2002 and fell six times. I needed gloves that were light, breathable, but tough enough to protect the palms of my hands when I fell. Not if I fell, when I fell. It was inevitable. Strangely, it was never in the technical, rocky, winding, chiseled lava sections, it was usually after that when you take a deep breath and relax and start looking more than three feet down the trail, or taking a drink of water or messing with a GU pack. Catch a root or small rock and Wham! Get up, brush yourself off and start again. Each fall reminding you to pay attention and I managed to forget five more times. Harbick's must have a hundred and fifty types of gloves to choose from. I settled on some stretch nylon gloves with rubber coated palms and fingers. The rubber was a dense light gray coating that I figured would do a great job of protecting my palms from rocks and gravel. My thoughtful and caring wife Shelly thought they might not breath enough so I cut the fingers off. Now they resembled biking gloves. Perfect. Complete McKenzie River Trail Report Rage Race Report: 2005 Scandia Run
But even after all the smack at the DAC, the only safe bet was that after this year’s Scandia Run, someone was going to walk off with what was tucked safely away in the truck of K.C. Taylor’s tightly secured vehicle (e.g. he left his P-Diddy CD playing with the windows rolled down during the race). The other safe bet was this thing was going to be settled on a sultry morning on one of the fastest 10K courses you’ll find anywhere. Keep in mind that a $60 pot is about as serious as these running junkies ever get having bet five bucks a piece (…we’re talkin’ their own money here) on predicting their own finishing times, all of which would test each runner if they were to come closest to…and beat (a controversial “no sandbagging” rule put on the table the night before not without a lively debate). Complete Scandia Report Sunriver Turkey Trot, 2004It was a bit nippy, to say the least. Matt Logan was about to find out what running a hard three miler on November 26 feels like in central Oregon (not to mention the 4400 feet of elevation). Matt runs for Branham High School’s (San Jose, CA) cross country team. He was also the only district meet qualifier from Branham (not too bad for a freshman). It was about 25 degrees during our warm up, and his hands and face already were reminding him where he’s used to running. No big deal. After all, he’d be running with Uncle Rage. Complete Sunriver Fun Run Report 2004The Road from Bangkok to Angkor Wat By Todd Bosworth It was early October when my friend Todd called me and asked if I want to go to Cambodia to run the Angkor Wat Half Marathon with him and his buddy Paul...The race is something Todd and I had read about and talked about doing for years. It was taking on mythical qualities with the conflicting dates, supposed cancellations and bits and pieces of information appearing and disappearing on various websites over the years. Certainly there was no official website. That would be too easy. Results were nowhere to be found. At the time of Todd's call one website had it on Dec 6, another on November 29 and another had it marked as cancelled. I contacted an event planner in San Diego, Kathy Loper, who had organized a few trips to the event and was doing so again this year. She hooked us up with a member of the event committee and we sent in our applications. Round trip airfare from Eugene to Bangkok was cheap. The hard part would be getting the last 300 miles to Angkor Wat. Overland or fly? Flying was easy but very expensive. We decided overland would be fun with the trip taking somewhere between 8 and 20 hours depending on weather, bus and or taxis as reported on the very informative www.talesofasia.com. We flew into Bangkok late Tuesday night and jogged early everyday in Lumpini Park and did some sightseeing. We hired a taxi Friday morning to take us to the Cambodian border town of Poipet. After an hour through customs, a Cambodian taxi took us the last 100 miles in four hours and we were in Siem Reap by 6pm. It was a fascinating drive. Complete Angkor Wat Half Marathon Report 2004Steep Hill Chase, 2004Mark your calendars, folks. It’s the annual Steep Hill Chase in Alton Baker Park, Eugene, Oregon (June 12). It’s also marks the one year anniversary of Rage’s return to racing, following his devastating back injury and subsequent lumbar discectomy surgery. We caught up with him out on a run earlier this week and thought we’d check in and see how he’s doing. Our 10K Truth field reporter filed this report: Q: So, Rage. How’s the back? Rage: Fine. The Steep Hill Chase was my first race back, and I was pleasantly surprised with a sub-19 showing. I even passed one or two guys. The course looks great this year and should be another interesting venue, as we have come to expect from the one and only Todd Bosworth (Race Director of the Steep Hill Chase). I’d love to run it this year, but I’m going to have to scratch. It’s a bunch of other aches and pains I’ve had since the whole back thing. Calf, hamstring, you know the drill. I just can’t seem to be patient enough to build the base I need to start ramping up my training and run injury free yet. I'm starting yet another comeback and this time, I'm going to do more hills first before I go back to the track. It's just great to be finally back running pain free. I just have to be patient a bit longer and gradually work back into my speed work before I can start racing again. Q: Yeah, yeah, sure Rage. So, that pretty much translates to: "You can't run fast anymore. You can't run with Bosworth and Taylor. No team captain in their right mind would think about carrying your sorry ass on a relay team and you basically suck." Does that about cover it? Rage: Yeah. That about covers it. Q: So, is it true that we can look forward to the Rage turning to the junk mile hugger set and talking about the times he used to run…not that they were really that fast anyway, right? Rage: Hey, now wait a minute… Q: Is that shirt too small or is that actually a gut… Rage: I'm outa here... Rage Race Report: Team Kong Captures 3rd at 2003 CWR So it all began with one simple proposal from Coop: “How about this, Rage: I’ll captain the team if you get us some runners.” And so the deal was struck for our entry in the 2003 Civil War Relay…a 50 miler starting at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon and finishing at Linn Benton Community College on the south end of Albany. The theme of this relay refers to the annual football match up between the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers …fondly referred to in these parts as “The Civil War.” Complete Civil War Relay Report As part of Coburg, Oregon's Golden Years Celebration, various running and walking events billed as "Run In The Country" are held during the third weekend in July. Among these are The Coburg Half Marathon and Coburg 5 Miler. Rage Race Report: 2003 Run in the Country Coburg 5 Miler Warming up, I noticed the familiar gait of Kyle Gee, who was back to defend his win in the Five Miler in 2002. Turns out he was injured, too (hamstring) and hadn't been 100% for some time now. We then bumped into Todd Bosworth, whose shredded legs looked like he had been running through the brush. Turns out, while he had laid a hash down the previous day through thick brush, he was going to run and wouldn't be pushing Weston, his young son, which is the only time I am reasonably certain I can run with him. Complete Coburg Run In The Country Report See 2002 Scandia Run race photos of T-Bone, Manciata (aka Vanilla Thunder), Gee, Bosworth, and other diehard Scandia runners! Plus 2002 Scandia Run Video Clips including The Leaders at Mile 1 and Vanilla Thunder being cheered (if you can call it that) by the Rage. Archived Report: Scandia Run 2001
After trying to get the annual image of T-Bone wearing that pathetic Fourth of July get-up out of my head, including that tie that he continues to keep well hidden from Tina, I tucked in behind a group of runners headed up Donald Street. They were all good runners, as usual for this race, which attracts a couple of thousand runners every year. Complete Butte to Butte Reports Rage Race Report: 2002 April Fools 15k Run - Eugene, Oregon The field for this race usually is pretty thin, given that it's early in the season for a 9.3 mile race. This year was similar to last year's field, with only 64 runners. The gun sounded and we were off. I reminded Todd how fast he went out last year, and he seemed to take note...
...With less than a mile to go, I knew all them would now be stepping up the pace, making my 6:05 9th mile a moot point. I was still five seconds behind Todd and he was digging hard in the final third of a mile. I was not going to get him. Not even Bruce holding up that stupid Runner's World Penquin ad could get my legs churning any faster. (Excerpt from The Rage's 2002 April Fools 15k Race Report) Complete April Fools 15k Run Report
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Like
“The Babe” pointing to the fence at Wrigley in the 1932
World Series, 12 runners at the 2005 Scandia Run put their
game faces on and called their own number before they even
toed it up.
If
you are looking for a fast 10k course, look no more, baby.
This one, billed locally as a "Roadrunners Classic," most
certainly is. Looking back in our race archives here at
10Ktruth, I couldn't believe that we have never covered
this race. Every runner has their course and I would venture
to guess that in the 27 years this race has been run, it
has produced more personal bests than any course, any distance,
anywhere. This race pumps out more sub-40s than St. Georges
pumps out sub-3:00s. The key difference is you don't need
a parachute on the first half of this course. It is as flat
as they come…not a bump in it. That's what I like best about
it. It's one of those "spare me the violin and just gimme
the number" courses.
Desperate
to sandbag our way into some hardware, and doing everything
I possibly could to find some way to duck all the fast old
guys in this town and back into a hat, I thought I could
tiptoe quietly into registering for the Open Division, which
I noticed was pretty thin last year. Problem was, I found
out we were too old for the O.D. It looked like we'd have
to run in the Masters Division after all…which I knew meant
we were toast against the likes of Robert Towne, Daryl Egbert,
Dave McJunkin, and a couple other teams who took another
version of Team Killerwatts to the woodshed last year (actually,
Daryl's team basically gave us their hats last year, when
they had a runner take a wrong turn). So much for sandbagging.
I guess I'd have to wait to milk my handicap for Coop and
Manclark on the golf course. Race Report: The Devil Made Me Do It
The scene for the 2001 Truffle Shuffle was pretty typical Oregon conditions for this annual mid-February event at a place called Alton Baker Park in Eugene, Oregon. While the theme for just about all of the running events anywhere in the nation this weekend was all about Valentine's Day, unbeknownst to me, the devil was waiting for me on the course. And I ain't talkin' no cupid, baby. I'm talkin' Mr. 666 himself. More on that, later.
Before the race, there was no evil in the weather. Just some Truth: cold and cloudy, threatening rain and a slight breeze. The only thing I didn't like thinking about was the thought of having to turn back into the breeze for almost the entire third mile of the four mile event, which me and 401 other runners would be dealing with in about 45 minutes. (Continued)
Complete Truffle Shuffle Report
USATF Winter Cross Country Championships 2001 held at Ft. Vancouver in Vancouver, Washington - Race Report by Terry Parks
I got invited to run with an >50 cross country team representing the Snohomish Track Club at the USATF Winter XCountry Championships held at Ft. Vancouver in Vancouver, WA. Herm Adkins, their number one runner has won the individual championship the last few years. He is a very talented guy that runs a few miles the week before the event and shows up and wins. This time, he apparently overdid it and tweaked his Achilles, so they called on me. I warned them I wouldn't be in Herm's league. There were only two teams in the 50 and over division. I was real happy with the race - I ran strong and smart. I was the 6th man on the team - top five score. Of course I was pretty determined not to be the last finisher on the team. (More Cross Country Championships Report).
Eugene All Comers Meets were held during July 2000, at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon. Various Team KONG and 10k Truth runners took part.
T-Bone
Race Report: T-Bone Breakthrough
Complete Eugene All-Comers Meet Report
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This year, five runners from Eugene would join eleven others from Seattle and Canada. Bruce and I were joined by Tommy, Ron and Bill and all flew into Calgary, rented one of two support vehicles the team would require and then made the five hour drive to Jasper. For someone who has not made this drive before, you spend most of it with your mouth hanging open, especially when you see the hills you are going to be running up. I got tired driving up them. We arrived in Jasper and met our fellow Morons and received our official leg assignments. As we each pondered our assigned leg, the CEO of the team sponsor (GeoEngineers out of Redmond, WA), laid down a gauntlet and challenged the group to beat the Geo team record of 22:30. (More Jasper to Banff Report ). |
Special 10kTruth Event Coverage of the Prefontaine Classic from the incomparable Rage! Click for more on the World's Greatest Athletes that gave their all at famed Eugene, Oregon's Hayward Field: The House that “Pre” Built!
Photograph by Jeanie Dunn
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