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Western States Endurance Run
The Western States Endurance Run, known commonly as the Western States 100, is a 100.2-mile (161 km) ultramarathon that takes place on California's Sierra Nevada Mountains trails each year on the last full weekend of June. The race starts at the base of the Palisades Tahoe ski resort in Olympic Valley and finishes at the Placer High School track in Auburn, California. The terrain is quite rugged, frequently showcasing snow on the highest passes and record hot temperatures throughout the course. Runners ascend a cumulative total of 18,090 feet (5500 m) and descend a total of 22,970 feet (7000 m) on mountain trails before reaching the finish. Because of the length, the race commences at 5 a.m. and continues through the day and into the night. Runners finishing before the 30-hour time limit for the race receive a commemorative bronze belt buckle, while runners finishing in under 24 hours receive a silver belt buckle. The Western States 100 is one of the five 100-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palisades Tahoe, Placer County, California
A palisade is a steel or wooden fence or wall of variable height, usually used as a defensive structure. Palisade, palisades or palisading also may refer to: Software * PALISADE (software), an open source cross platform software library that provides implementations of lattice-based cryptography building blocks and homomorphic encryption schemes Geology * Columnar basalt, a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet ** List of places with columnar jointed volcanics ;United States * The Palisades (Hudson River), cliffs along the Hudson River in the US states of New York and New Jersey * Palisades Sill, an intrusive igneous body that forms the cliffs largely following the southern portion of the Hudson River * Palisades (California Sierra), a group of peaks in the Sierra Nevada range of east-central California ** Palisade Glacier, California * The Palisades (Napa County), a mountain rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Shirk
Ken Shirk (Kenneth Ivan Shirk, popularly known as Cowman and Cowman A MooHa) is an ultramarathon runner who in 1976 was the ninth person to complete the course of The Western States Trail Ride on foot. In 1977 the Western States Endurance Run was officially established on the same course. As of 2006 he also has raced officially and unofficially in every Ironman World Championship except the first one. The first official Western States Endurance Run was in 1977, but before then a few runners ran with the horses in the Tevis Cup, a 24-hour, 100-mile horse endurance ride. By 1976 nine individuals had completed the course on foot. In 1972 seven soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas completed Tevis Cup course on foot in less than 48 hours. Next was Gordy Ainsleigh, who completed it on foot in under 24 hours. Ken was ninth in 1976 with a time of 24:30, Ken Shirk is known for wearing a helmet sporting fur and large bovine horns. See also *Cowman (other) Cowman may refer to: *Cow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Garneau
Tracy Garneau is a Canadian ultramarathoner. She was the 2010 ''UltraRunning'' Female North American runner of the year. Running career Garneau began running at age eleven in her hometown of Vernon, British Columbia. She ran several marathons before running her first ultramarathon in 2004 by competing in the Canadian Death Race. In 2008, she was part of the Canadian team which won the Transalpine-Run in the Alps. In 2009, she placed third at the 50 mile San Francisco North Face Endurance Challenge. The next year Garneau won the Western States Endurance Run in a time of 19 hours, 1 minute, and 55 seconds after coming from behind at the 80 mile mark. She qualified for the Western States by winning the American River 50-mile Endurance Run. In 2010, she also won four separate 50 mile races. She set the Hawaiian Hurt 100 course record of twenty four hours and six minutes at the 2010 race, breaking the previous record by two hours and finishing third overall. She is sponsored by The Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Krupicka
Anton Krupicka (born 2 August 1983) is an American ultra-runner. He has won the Leadville 100 twice, the Miwok 100K, the Rocky Raccoon 100 Miler, the Collegiate Peaks 50 Miler, the White River 50 Miler twice (Set 2010 CR 6:25:29), the High Mountain 50k and the Estes Park Marathon. He also came in second in the Western States Endurance Run in 2010 in what would have been a course record time of 15:13:53. His surname is pronounced as "''crew-pitch-kuh''". Training and personal life Krupicka is known for his long hair and beard as well as his minimalist approach to life. He often runs without a shirt and with very lightweight minimal running shoes. He ran his first marathon when he was twelve years old. During college and in his early 20s he often ran upwards of 200 miles a week. Krupicka is featured in the film ''Indulgence: 1000 Miles Under The Colorado Sky'' which chronicles his Summer 2007 training leading up to the Leadville Trail 100. Krupicka grew up near Niobr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Roes
Geoff Roes (born in Central New York, April 14, 1976) is an American ultra-marathon runner. Career Roes was raised in Cleveland, New York and excelled in track and cross country at Paul V. Moore High School in Central Square, NY. He competed in cross-country at Syracuse University for one year before becoming injured. Roes took a hiatus from competitive running until trying his hand at ultra marathon running in 2006 when he won his first event, the Little Susitna 50K. In 2007, he set a course record in the process of winning the Susitna 100 miler. In 2010 Roes won the American River 50 Mile Endurance Run. Roes also won the 2010 Western States Endurance Run in a record time of 15:07:04. Roes set the still-standing course record for the Wasatch 100 (a 100-mile race along the Wasatch Front range of the Rocky Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Koerner
Hal Koerner (born January 23, 1976, in Morgantown, WV) is an American distance runner specializing in ultramarathon running. He is the owner of a specialty running store, Rogue Valley Runners, located in the mountainous Southern Oregon town of Ashland. He is one of the subjects of JB Benna's feature-length documentary "Unbreakable: The Western States 100". He is Race Director of the Pine to Palm 100 Mile Endurance Run - A hundred-mile footrace from Williams, OR to Ashland, OR held each year the second weekend in September. In addition to that race he also directs the Lithia Loop Trail Marathon in Ashland, OR. In 2014, "Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning" was published and released by VeloPress. The book details training for an ultra marathon; from 50k to 100 miles. It debuted #1 in its category on Amazons bestsellers list. Hal has held the Fastest Know Time for the Colorado Trail (489 miles) and the John Muir Trail (221 miles). To date he has completed over 150 ultra mara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 California Wildfires
The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating in the state of the 21st century. While 6,255 fires occurred, about two-thirds as many as in 2007, the total area burned— —far exceeded that of previous years. By July 5, 2008, 328 wildfires were burning, and those fires were only 81% contained. For the first time since 1977, the US military helped with ground-based firefighting, when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger dispatched 400 California National Guard troops, including Chief Medical Officer Susan Pangelinan, to manage fire lines. He said the number of fires had stretched the state's fire-fighting resources thin. "One never has resources for 1,700 fires. Who has the resources for that?" Schwarzenegger said, adding, "Something is happening, clearly. There's more need for resources than ever before... it's fire season all year round." Fires Below is a list of all fires that exceeded during the 2008 fire season. The list is taken from CAL FIRE's list of large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Trason
Ann Trason (born August 30, 1960) is an American ultramarathon runner from Auburn, California. She set 20 world records during her career and is considered to be the most successful female ultrarunner of all time. Life Trason was a top runner in high school, but a knee injury kept her from competing in college and injuries plagued her throughout her running career including not finishing her first two entries to the Western States 100. Trason's ultra career began when she entered the 1985 American River 50 Miler at age 24 and both won and set a course record. She returned 8 years later and dropped her time by an hour to establish the 6:09 female course record that still stands.. Trason's Western States career began in 1987, but was not able to finish it until 1989 when she was first female finisher. She has won Western States 14 times in all, most recently in 2003. She held the women's division course record for 18 years (17:37:51, set in 1994) until it was broken by Ellie Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Jurek
Scott Gordon Jurek (born October 26, 1973) is an American ultramarathoner, author, and public speaker. Throughout his running career, Jurek was one of the most dominant ultramarathon runners in the world, winning the Hardrock Hundred (2007), the Badwater Ultramarathon (2005, 2006), the Spartathlon (2006, 2007, 2008), and the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run (1999–2005). In 2010, at the 24-Hour World Championships in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, Jurek won a silver medal behind Shingo Inoue and set a new US record for distance run in 24 hours with 165.7 miles (an average pace of 8 minutes and 42 seconds per mile). Jurek has followed a vegetarian diet since 1997, and a vegan diet since 1999. Early life Raised in Proctor, Minnesota, Jurek is of part Polish descent. He is the son of Lynn (Swapinski) and Gordon Jurek. His childhood involved a strong connection with nature developed through hunting, fishing, and camping with his family. Jurek began trail running as a child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Twietmeyer
Tim Twietmeyer (born November 30, 1958) is an Auburn, California-based ultramarathon runner and an engineering manager at Hewlett Packard, in Roseville in the U.S. state of California. Twietmeyer is also a mountain biker, road cyclist, and retired almost-scratch golfer and swimmer. He is best known for his five victories and unprecedented 25 sub-24 hour finishes at the Western States Endurance Run. Western States 100 Miler Twietmeyer is the only person to have completed the Western States Endurance Run more than 25 times in under 24 hours. His five WS100 victories came in 1992, 1994–1996, and 1998. In 2003, he completed an unprecedented 15 consecutive top-five finishes. He has served on the board of trustees since 1996 and from 2006-2010 served as president of the Western States Endurance Run Foundation. Endurance Beyond his WS100 exploits, Twietmeyer has won the Eagle Run in Canada, and completed the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc through France, Italy, and Switzerland. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of The United States
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is Bicameralism, bicameral, composed of a lower body, the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives, and an upper body, the United States Senate, Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Senators and representatives are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a Governor (United States), governor's appointment. Congress has 535 voting members: 100 senators and 435 representatives. The U.S. vice president has a vote in the Senate only when senators are evenly divided. The House of Representatives has six Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives, non-voting members. The sitting of a Congress is for a two-year term, at present, beginning every other January. Elections in the United States, Elections are held every even-numbered year on Election Day (United States), Election Day. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages of land. Major divisions of the agency include the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business Operations, and Research and Development. The agency manages about 25% of federal lands and is the only major national land management agency not part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. History The concept of national forests was born from Theodore Roosevelt's conservation group, Boone and Crockett Club, due to concerns regarding Yellowstone National Park beginning as early as 1875. In 1876, Congress formed the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the United States. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
