Anyone hear how the Leadville 100 is going today?

Don't know - but its one of the hottest days of the year up there - almost 80 degrees.

Anton Krupika was 17 minutes ahead of the previous fastest time at Hope Pass

aid station and 14 minutes ahead of previous fastest time at Winfield (he

got to the turnaround at 11:20 AM Mountain Time, with a 4 AM start). Tim

Parr has been close behind.

I hope he doesn't blow up.

I wonder how much the helicopter crash has affected the distance of this race =/

No, I don't pay attention to stinky, hairy, spaced-out, granola-munching hippies doing speed hikes and making love to trees off in the wilderness.

No, you just run 15:30 5k as a senior in college and are mad that so many people are better than you at every kind of running.

Cool. Thanks. Please keep us updated. It sounds like Tony has ran a bit less mileage than usual leading up to this race...I think he may bonk in the 2nd half.

PostedToUltraList wrote:

Anton Krupika was 17 minutes ahead of the previous fastest time at Hope Pass

aid station and 14 minutes ahead of previous fastest time at Winfield (he

got to the turnaround at 11:20 AM Mountain Time, with a 4 AM start). Tim

Parr has been close behind.

Tony kicked some major ass a few weeks back at the White River 50 on Crystal Mtn (new course record too). If he hasn't been putting in his normal (masochistic) level of miles, then good. I know he says we perform best at the brink of over training, but it seems that he gets hurt a lot. I'd love to see him close the deal on another course record this summer, and not be a gimp at the end of it.

Based on Tony K's blog, doesn't look like he lowered his mileage too much. Yes, he's coming back from a nasty injury, and isn't popping 200 a week, but still pretty good numbers.

"The last ten weeks of training have been remarkably consistent and (historically uncharacteristically) reasonable in their volume, starting with the second week of June: 106 miles (first week really back after two months of very little running due to knee issues), 154, 150, 156, 151, 183, 113 (White River 50 taper), 155, 180, 142 (half taper week). This comes out to 22-28 hours per week of running all above 10,000' and with a heavy emphasis on vertical gain. Because running up and down mountains is what I prefer.

I have done runs of 40 miles or more five times this summer, including the final 50 miles of the Leadville 100 course in 6:58 ten days ago. Two years ago I did that exact training run two weeks out from Leadville in 7:26 and ran 16:14 during the race. I am excited to see what Saturday reveals."

http://antonkrupicka.blogspot.com/

I doubt anyone in this field has ever broken 16 for 5K. In fact, I'd bet that most haven't broken 18.

LT100 follower, not 200. (typo-sorry)

A buddy crewing/pacing for another buddy just texted me and said Tony is past 60miles in 9.5 hours.

Phone service is spotty, and that's all i got from him.

Lee Greenwood wrote:

I doubt anyone in this field has ever broken 16 for 5K. In fact, I'd bet that most haven't broken 18.

Tony Krupicka.

Never heard of him.

That's it?

What a lame f***ing response.

Fine: what about him?

So, have you broken 16? 17? Out of high school yet?

I bet there a many in the field who have run faster than you. You would be surprised at the type of runners you would find at an ultra. Older guys who were 2:2x marathoners back in the day and don't think anything about it because they were a dime a dozen back then. Faster guys who just decided to get on the trails and can't do much speed work because of old injuries or whatnot.

I am older and not very fast, but sub 16? Yep. And that ain't that great. And I know others out there that have done the same.

Also, different races. Different distances. 5K PR don't mean much when you are out there for 20 - 30 hours.

Yep. Running 100 miles at altitude is for pussies!

"His 8K cross country PR ended up being a pedestrian 27:32 and his best 5K (16:31) still dates back to his high school days."

http://runningtimes.com/Print.aspx?articleID=12455

Sub-15 and sub-25 here, thanks.

I didn't see a lot of people ripping on Usain Bolt's performances on the basis that he can't break 16 for 5k. What's the point of criticizing what someone can't do (or worse yet, what they can do, but which YOU don't think they can do) in an event very different from their specialty?

Guys training for 100 mile trail/mountain ultras don't spend a lot of time running 400s or 800s on the track.