You have to believe at some point that he was tired of his plays being shoved into neat little boxes and so, what he did next, was create the Western States Endurance Run. I know extremely little about the exact way his plays are neatly packaged into categories, but I do know the weirder they got, the more incest Shakespeare shoved into his plays, the more my attention was piqued. Sometimes, though, a comedy felt like a tragedy that could have been a history if the mother and father and son were actually siblings, or some wild shit like that. But also, each of his plays were (usually, I think?) categorized into either comedies, histories, or tragedies. Which brings me to the last amazing stat about the Western States 100 this year more than 1,500 volunteers will help to put it on.Remember in high school when you were reading Shakespeare and the professor was making you do way more than just read ? You were having to study the prose, the context, the definition for intpinse. At this point, 419 runners from 34 countries have signed up for the race, with six people still looking for pacers. Though Killian Jornet dropped out earlier this week after the death of his climbing partner on Mont Blanc, the men's field is still stacked. Geoff Roes set the current record of 15:07:04 in 2010.įor this year's race, has previews of the men's and women's fields, interviews with the contenders, and live blogging of the event. Still, he ran, and watched as men took more and more time off his original record. After that, organizers upped the total mileage on the trail from 90 to 100.2 miles. Ainsleigh didn't stop running the race, and has finished the ultra 22 times. Three years later, 14 men showed up to race the trail on foot. ![]() Up to that point, the question had always been whether I would make it or not, but I had never thought-and nobody had ever mentioned-that I might die out there on the trail from trying.Īinsleigh finished in 23 hours and 42 minutes. If the horses were dying out here today, then the much less genetically appropriate human was definitely at risk of dying. In spite of the hellish heat of the day, I felt a chill go through my heart and guts. My mind kept dwelling on the grey horse as I climbed, and my brain was so sluggish that I was halfway up the canyon before I suddenly realized what the implications of that horse dying meant for my prospects of survival. I later found out that, even with the rescue efforts of a gutsy veterinarian who ran in on foot, the grey horse died early the next morning in the bottom of the canyon. That horse was obviously dying and would never leave the canyon alive. As I climbed, I continued to dwell on what I had just seen. I staggered and clawed my way back up to the bridge-crossing and started up the long, slow, humid, and steepest climb into Devil's Thumb. But we got the horse as far into the shallows as we could. My body was failing me, my legs were going into spasms and giving out. I backtracked and went down the steep trail to the water to help them drag the horse into the shallows where it wouldn't drown. Below is an excerpt of his account.Īs I jogged onto the wooden suspension bridge that crosses the beautiful North Middle Fork of the American River, I saw a group of riders downstream struggling desperately with a grey horse that had collapsed and was lying limply in the water. This all started as a horse race, but in 1974 a guy named Gordy Ainsleigh decided to see if he could run with the animals. If they finish, they will climb more than 17,000 feet, descend more than 22,000 feet, and have at least some moments on relatively flat ground as they run, walk, or crawl in the summer heat over the course of 100.2 miles to Auburn, California. Some of the best ultrarunners in the world will line up in Squaw Valley, California, tomorrow morning for the start of the Western States 100. An excerpt of a letter from ultrarunner Andy Jones-Wilkins to competitors in the 2012 Western States 100 Assuming the pain you’re experiencing is less severe than that, just slow down, stay hydrated, and shuffle on. Yes, one can experience excruciating muscle damage at Western States, but if you have damage that bad, you’ll most certainly know it will feel like Ray Lewis is thrusting two ice picks into your quads with each foot plant. ![]() ![]() The downhill pounding you put your legs through at Western States grinds the muscles in your quads into sausage. I got news for you, everyone feels this way. Finally, you will undoubtedly have a moment between Cal 2 and Auburn Lakes Trails when you feel like you need a Quad Transplant.
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