The Sandrat!
For those of you who missed the Sandrat Trail Run, it was humid and muddy, but a real fun time in ol' Lawrence, Kansas on Sunday. The mud wasn't as bad as Steve Riley (the RD) made it out to be, though. (Maybe we're just used to training in a lot worse).
Matt Brisch, fellow homebrewer and an incredible runner, smoked the course in 1:09:32, to take 5th overall, finishing with race director Steve Riley, at the same time. "Good Ben" (Reeves), Jason Crosby, and Shane Jones ran strong and fast races, and came home with first and second place age-group hardware, (which consisted of painted plastic rats). Kyle Amos was recovering from an "elective injury" and couldn't run. I was recovering from a (hilly and long) Saturday training run, and was happy to finish within the century. Alex Kovalev is back to trailrunning after a tough year, and cruised/lumbered through the course just fine. Jeff Perry followed, and then passed his "tantric mud vision", and finished strong. Eric Tiffany, back from his first road marathon, had a very decent finish. "Marko" Jacquez had to run, recover and then run off to work. Larry Miller, once again made his annual pilgrimage to run the Sandrat, from his home in Lafayette, Indiana. It was nice seeing Jason Daniels and Paul Sidwell at an event, again. It was also nice to see Ed Payne and Dick Lipsey (from Lawrence), again. It was also wonderful to meet and talk to (during the run) young Cara McPeak, of Manhattan, Kansas. It passed the time well for me.
Kyle Amos has posted some photos of the race.
I had fun providing the libations for the race, this year. I had promised Steve Riley that if he directed the race again, I would provide the traditional "Breakfast Beer" free of charge. On tap for after the run were the following homebrews: Sandrat Trail Ale, Siren's Song Fantasy Ale, and Gute Träume Kölschbier.
Be sure to put this race on your calendar for next year. It's 9.6 miles of intense fun, followed by even more casual fun and fellowship.
3 comments:
hey hi how are ya...
umm... so i see that you're in the KC area, and have some to-do with the KC Running group?!
i'm looking to join a running club/group/thing in the KC area, so i was wondering if you could give me any info?? im like...way slow. and not really an "actual runner"... but i like to try! and... i've never really done trial running... so... yeah.
i dunno. just thought i'd ask whats in the area for running groups?!
Well, for hooking up with a running group, you could post to http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/kcrunning/, or to the trailrunning site at http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/kctrailrunning/
Another good way to find running groups is to go to a Wednesday Night Run & Potluck dinner. Many different pace groups run at the WNR. You can find a schedule at: http://www.bulletinboards.com/v1.cfm?comcode=kctc&cat=1#CATTOP
There is also the Runner's Edge group. It's a pay-to-run group run by Eladio Valdez.
!! cool. thanks, i'll definitely check these out!
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