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Coach Hanks Wins the Lordstown Apple Cider 5K !!

Congratulations to Todd Hanks, winner of the Lordstown Apple Cider 5K!


Todd's Race Report:
Brother called Saturday night and set up run for Sunday at Mill Creek. Early Sunday morning he calls and is too sore from YUTC and wants to take day off. OK with me as my knee was really sore Saturday and still pretty stiff in the morning.  My wife wanted to post flyers of her race at Lordstown Apple Cider 5K so headed over there.

 Decided to run it since I was there. Started running ½ hour before race and just kept going until race start.

Knee loosened up. No big guns in attendance. Group of three in lead pack. 2 by halfway and 1 after the 2 mile mark.

That 1 was me. Awesome feeling being alone chasing the police car. Turned into school parking lot with huge lead for last ¼ mile and people telling me to take it easy. Finished in 18:30 for a couple second PR and first ever victory.
 Cherry on top of a great weekend.

Youngstown Ultra Trail Classic

Thanks to all who came out for our 8th YUTC.

Beautiful weather and trails.

Glad everyone enjoyed Mill Creek Park.

We will be posting more race results stories later, but today we are cleaning up, getting a long run in, and having to return to Real Life.

Big thanks to all of our volunteers for their hard work!

Midwest Grand Slam Results

Congratulations to Eric Deutsch, for finishing the Midwest Grand Slam.

The Midwest Gram Slam of Ultrarunning is a challenge comprised of successfully completing four of the Midwest's showcase 100 mile trail races within the same calendar year:

Kettle Moraine 100 Mile Endurance Run
Mohican Trail 100 Mile Run
Burning River 100 Mile Endurance Run
Hallucination 100 Mile Run

All Midwest Grand Slam Finishers will receive a complimentary entry to the 2012 Stone Steps 50K Trail Race near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Eric's Results:

Kettle Moraine 25.04.05
Mohican 24.24.59
Burning River 22.58.02
Hallucination 22.44.24

Total time of 95.06.14 and Fifth Place in the Slam.  Nice work!

Run Woodstock

Hey man, the Run Woodstock Races was this past weekend...

Check out whose running what..




The Hallucination 100 Mile Event is the last stop of The Midwest Grand Slam.

Eric Deutsch finished up his 4th 100 mile race of the summer in 22.44, finishing the Midwest Grand Slam.

More Woodstock Results:

50 Mile:  Dan Bellinger 10.22.35

50K: Desiree Cowie 6.22.09

Marathon:
Heidi Finiff 4.59.20
Glenn Cowie 6.44.57
Gale Connor 5.26.37

Grand Slam Dave Peterman

Congratulations to Dave Peterman.  He  completed the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run

on Saturday, September 8 in 31 hours 50 minutes.

He also completed the "Grand Slam" of Ultrarunning, finishing Western States, Vermont, Leadville, and Wasatch all in one season.

Nice work.

Dave is also running the YUTC September 15, if you want to get his autograph on anything.

Content Wanted!!!

Hey there all you NEO Trail Members,

This is a news blog for the members.  This is where we like to toot our own horn, and recognize people for their accomplishments.

We need your help!

Content is needed for the news blog.

Yes, that means news!!

We know some of yinz are headed out for a hippy dippy weekend in Michigan for the Woodstock Festival of Running; many of you will be running YUTC the next weekend.

How about writing a race report?

It doesn't have to be long.

 It doesn't have to be grammatically correct.  

But we want to feature YOU here on the blog.  

Didn't run the race?  Crewed for a buddy?  Had an epic or funny or harrowing time?  Worked an aid station?  Hey, you could write about that.  It's always cool hearing about other aspects of the race.

These don't have to be ultra events.  Maybe you ran a 5K or a Tough Mudder or a Color Run. Want to tell us about it?  Got pics (EVEN BETTER!!!) to share?  We want to post it.

Okay, even if you don't want to write a race report, that is cool. But we would like to get your results out there.  Kimba does her best job of stalking people on the interwebs but she needs your help.  Send us your race results-where you went, how did you do.

Wasatch is this Weekend

Wasatch 100 Trail Run is this weekend.  This is the 4th and final event of The Grand Slam.

Dave Peterman is bib # 231

Good Luck Dave!!!!

The Ring

September has crept up on  us, and it was time for an annual fun event for a few of the NEO TC members.

Well, "fun" is a relative term for The Ring.

The Ring is simply the 71 mile Massanutten Trail, in the Massanutten Mountains of Virginia.  This is a FA event put on by the Virginia Happy Trails Club.

Only one rule of The Ring, "stay on Orange".  The Massanutten 100 Trails Run uses most of the MMT Trail, with some added miles thrown in.

It appeared that the weather cooperated for The Ring.  Hot and oppressive.

Results are here.

As far as NEOTC trail runners, Coach Hanks suffered like a dog in the humidity, and only made it 40.7 miles and had to drop at Edinburg Gap.

Todd was down 15 pounds total from his effort.

Slim made it back to Signal Knob Parking lot in roughly 23 1/2 hours.

As always a little suffering is a good thing.

Look up either of these guys and ask them about their experience, or any of the NEOTC runners who have completed the Ring and find out if this is your kind of an event.

1st Places Leave No Trace 1/2 Marathon

There were a few notable first places for the "Leave No Trace" 1/2 Marathon this Saturday.

Heidi Finiff placed first in the Female Masters, in 2.21.03

Teresa McCombs also finished the race, in 2.45.04

Lloyd Thomas took third place, in the wide AG 40-49, finishing in 1.46.25

George Themelis (one month out from his Burning River 100 finish) took first place in the Grandmasters Division, in 1.52.16.

Nice work runners!!!

Moebius 50K Results

Congratulations to all the NEO TC members who completed the Moebius 50K last weekend.


George Themelis    4:42:01

Daniel Bellinger     5:26:07

Roy Heger            5:41:38

Heidi Finniff          6:08:58

Paul Lefelhocz       6:09:42

Elizabeth Sozan     6:53:46   

Bill Wagner           7:07:27

Gale Connor         8:02:56

Julie Curtis           11:39:00



Complete results can be downloaded here

Cross Country

A nice report up with Eric Harris:



http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/575955/New-faces-to-cross-country-scene.html?nav=5025

Pikes Peak Marathon Report

Jeff has composed his report on the Pikes Peak Marathon, please visit his blog!

Moebius Green Monster 50K Report

Congratulations to Julie Curtis for weathering through a very tough 50K for her.

Please visit her blog for the full race report!

Heal up quickly!!!

North Country Trail Races

A few of the NEO TC members took a long trip up to Manistee, Michigan, to participate in the 13th year of the North Country Trail Races.

They were hoping for a bit of cooler weather, being in almost northern Michigan, but alas, it was the same as being at home in Ohio-race day was typical summer, high of 89, about corresponding  humidity.

Julie Bowen Miller finished the marathon in 6 hours 49 minutes.

Kimba finished the 50 mile distance in 12 hours 16 minutes.   Her race report is here.

There was a 1/2 marathon, marathon, and 50 mile distance at this event.  The course was very runner friendly, consisting of mostly non-technical, sandy, runnable single track.  Very well organized race and nice aid stations only 3 to 4 miles apart. 

Legend

Johnny D at Hard Rock

Pikes Peak Marathon

Congratulations to NEO TC runner Jeff Musick, who successfully completed the Pikes Peak Marathon.

The marathon starts at 6300 feet.

There is an elevation gain of 7815 feet, as Pikes Peak summit is at 14,115 feet.

Jeff completed his run in 6:25:15.

Leadville Results

Congratulatons out to Dave Peterman, who ran a stellar 26.47 at "The Race Across the Sky", the Leadville 100!

Dave  has now completed 3 out the 4 races for the Grand Slam.  He has three weeks to train and rest and recover for the last event, the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run, September 7.

Nice work at Leadville, Dave!

2012 Speece Triathlon

The Speece Family Triathlon was held this morning in South Jackson Township in NE Ohio.
The Speece Family has a picnic every August, and the morning of the picnic they have a triathlon.
The distances are approx. 400 meter swim, 12 mile bike, and then a 5K run.

This is the 3rd year that the Harris family has participated in this event.
Both Slim and Baby Sasquatch competed not just against the rest of the athletes, but had a little family competition going on as well.
Last year at the Mattapoisett Tri, Slim just edged out BS by 19 seconds.
That was not the case this year, as BS passed Slim on the run and ending up 2:29 in front.

Results here.

The Speece Triathlon is held in memory of Steve Speece, and the proceeds go towards Pancreatic Cancer Research.
This is truly an inspiring event, and to listen to the pre-race briefing when they discuss Steve and what he represented and then to know that cancer touches almost every single one of us...
It truly is an emotional event.

Save a weekend in 2013 in August to fit this in.
You will be glad that you did.

Leadville is this weekend

Cheer on Dave Peterman, as he works on his high elevation race, Leadville 100.  This is # 3 of 4 for the Grand Slam.

 Popularly called "The Race Across the Sky".  A very high elevation race- One hundred miles of extreme Colorado Rockies terrain — from elevations of 9,200 to 12,600 feet, at Hope Pass.

Leadville, Colorado is a very cool little town.  For a cheap (and clean!!) place to stay, check out the Leadville Hostel.  However, don't try to get a room there during any big event, whether it's the mountain bike race or foot race, the hostel is booked through 2014 for these weeks.  But give Wild Bill a call, he may have room for you, and it's a cool place to stage out of for running/hiking 14'ers in the area.

Jeff Musick in Colorado

As part of his prep for the Pike's Peak Marathon, Jeff summitted Mount Elbert on Wednesday, August 15th.

Weather looks to be clear with nothing but blue sky above him.

NEO Trail Management wishes Jeff the best of luck as he targets the Musick family Record at the Marathon this Sunday.

Subsequent LT Challenge!

Nice work and congratulations to Dan Bellinger.  He ran some loops on Saturday, on the Ledges Trail, and then came back and completed the Challenge   on August 14, in the rain, in 6.44.

The Ledges Trail is the 1.75 mile loop of the Ledges in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.  18 loops will get you a 50K finish and a nice workout for the day.

We are now up to 8 finishers of the LT Challenge.  We are still awaiting LT to get his finish in.!

Another Finisher of the LT Challenge

Today Kimba finished the LT challenge in 7:57.
Details here on the NEOTC Forum.

Congrats to Kimba for her effort.

Vol State Report

Here is the Link to Paul "The King" Lefelhocz Last Annual Vol State 2012 Race Report!

Weekend Running

Running the Burning River 100 Mile Run the weekend before did not seem to slow down George Themelis.  He placed first in his age group at the Independence 5K, completing that in 19.47.

Tim Knapp got his double in on Saturday also, running 20 miles at Mill Creek Park in the early morning on Saturday, then running the Salem Star Trax 5K with his son that evening, in 31.24.

Farther south, Teresa McCombs completed the 5 mile trail race, the Dirty Signal, in the Summit Metroparks, running that in 52.05.

Hot day for running Saturday.  This was also the course familiarization/volunteer run at Mill Creek Park for the YUTC race.  Despite the hot weather, about fifteen runners showed up for some loops around the park.  Mileage ranged from one loop around the lakes, 12 miles, to Slim topping out his mileage about 40 miles. 

Burning River Results

Congratulations to all the runners who participated in this year's Burning River 100.  There were a few NEO TC members running, many more were supporting, both working Aid Stations, pacing, and just cheering on runners.

George Themelis had a stellar BR performance, finishing in 20:50, 25th overall, 2nd Grandmasters.

Eric Deutsch has now 75% of the Midwest Slam completed, finishing in 22:58.

Paul "The King" Lefelhocz had just a short run on the weekend, only 100 miles.  He finished in 27.47, just after finishing second at Vol State one week ago.

Mark Anson also had a good day at Burning River, completing his work in 29.15.

Nice work all.

Rest up and see you in Mill Creek Park Saturday!

Burning River Weekend

The weekend of the Burning River 100 Endurance Run is almost here.

NEO TC Members spotted in the entrants list:

Eric Deutsch-working on # 3 of the 4 for the Midwest Slam.

Mark Anson

Paul Lefelhocz-doing his cool down run after Vol State

George Themelis

Cyrus Taylor


Many other NEO TC folks will be out working Aid Stations and cheering runners on.

Good luck, have fun, stay cool!

Dave Peterman at the Vermont 100

Dave looking a little surprised by the horses..

Dave still managed to smash the course in 20 hours, 23 minutes!!