MAX F**CKIN KING - OLDEST MT MARATHON CHAMP

Worth noting that Max King is a graduate of Cornell University, as seems to be the case with many outstanding athletes and really good-looking guys.

The best performance in this race was the women's winner, Allie McLaughlin. Allie Mac broke the overall course record set by Emelie Forsberg and finished 5 mins ahead of anyone else. She would have finished 7th in the men's race even without being pressed on the downhill. Her ascent was 4th fastest of the day, only 2 mins slower than King. One of the best mountain race performances ever.

Thanks for your post. What an interesting career she has had. Prep star who finished 5th in NCAA XC as a frosh at Colorado, followed by years of injury. Then reborn as an all-time great mountain runner after college.

Look at Seth DeMoor. Unrecruited out of Buena Vista, CO high school. Read “Running With the Buffaloes”, and tried to walk-on at CU. Wetmore rejected him. He trained up for a year and tried again his Sophomore year, and he made the team. His college career was plagued with injuries (stress fractures).

He got married and settled down soon after college (graduated in 2008). He started running again, a bit more in 2015, to attempt Nolan’s 14 with his brother. Meanwhile, guys like Sage, Max and Joe Grey turn pro out of college.

Sometime around 2015-2016, at the prompting of kofuzi, Seth pivots his daily vlog to be more run-focused, after sizing up his main competition in that realm (Canaday), and figuring he has at least as much running talent as all the rest of the YouTube shoe shills.

After getting in a bit of consistent training, he feels it is time to get out and test the waters. He gets comped into the Sonoma 50, and tweaks his foot mid-race and drops out.

Two more major trail-race failures, and he buckles down with training. He enters the Pikes Peak Ascent in 2017, and finds out he has more work to do.

{The above was off the top-of-my-head. Maybe I’ll continue later.}

+1 except she had the 3rd fastest uphill time, only 2 guys faster uphill. With some competition to push her and maybe some more practice on some of the downhill parts, she might be able to cut 2 minutes off her downhill time and finish in 45 minutes like three of the guys slower than her going up.

Except that a certain guy named Kilian went there, and set the record a few years ago (record was beaten by an Alaskan since). Emelie Forsberg's women's record was just beaten this year.