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News articles for July 2006

28 Jul 06:

White River 50 preview

I have posted a preview of this Saturday's White River
50-Miler on my blog:
http://www.running-blogs.com/crowther/

Good luck to all participants,
Greg Crowther

Trans Europe Race - 2009

Note on Ultracentric:

Please up date your popular calendar with The Ultracentric 48/24/12/6 on Friday Nov. 17th -19th. Event to be held in Meadowmere Park, Grapevine, Texas, U.S.A.

Named The 24 Hour national Championship, and sole selection race to name The U.S. National 24 Hour Team, to travel to the World 24 Hour Championship in Quebec, Canada in 2007.

www.Ultracentric.net  to register, and very informative.

contact-Robert Tavernini

            The Ultracentric RD

            (972) 874-7776

Buckeye Trail 50K

Just want to share that one of my favorite local races is this
Saturday,
the BT50K up in Cleveland. Latest word is that there only around 10
places or so left. This is a very nice all trail run with an out and
back format from the Oak Grove picnic area in Brecksville down to Pine
Lane near Peninsula and then back in the Cuyahoga National Forest.

The Buckeye Trial is a loop around the state of Ohio that is around
1200
miles long and never leaves the state. Not sure if anyone has done the
whole trail in one push, but I have had personal fantasies about it.

This past Sunday Mrs. Harris and two of her marathon training buddies
were introduced to a portion of the trail and they enjoyed the few
miles
that we got in. Every once in a while a group of local ultra runners
will do a night run on the trail, and Mrs. Harris' running partner's
first comments were "How are we able to run on the trail in the dark?"

http://www.buckeyetrail50k.com/bt50k.html

Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

Jim Harris

World Record smashed in New York: http://www.srichinmoyraces.org/3100/race_journal/

Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk, 50, from Solingen,Germany, shattered his own world best, reaching 3100 miles in 41 days+08:16:29, and won the Tenth Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. The intrepid Mr. Schwerk, an instument maker and wood crafter back home in Germany, averaged 75.111 miles (120.878 km) per day, while besting his previous performance from 2002 in the same race by 29 hours, seven minutes, and 34 seconds. Race founder Sri Chinmoy presided over the finish line ceremony, in which a song was written in Madhupran's honor and performed by a large choir. After receiving congratulations from all his fellow competitors and gifts from friends and admirers, Mr. Schwerk continued on the course to run 13 laps to 5000 km. His storybook performance in 2002 was thought to be unbreakable, after having taken four days off the previous record. He said he might have gone even faster if not for heavy rains the last 48 hours and very high temperatures just days ago.