08 Warwick Park, Chester Co 1st Xterra trail evening 5k 05/07/08
08 Reading, PA TriMax French Creek Spring 6.5M Trail Run 04/27/08
08 Media, PA TriMax Ridley Creek Park Spring 5M Trail Run 04/06/08
08 Reading, PA Mt Penn Mudfest 15k Trail Run 03/22/08: The earliest Mudfest in history saw the March event start with a snowstorm, revert to snow and sunshine at the start and end in 50 degree, sunny weather. Starting with the launching of a pig some 200 ft in the air, Tom Haxton blistered the course used since 2000 and broke the course record by 40 seconds. Wet feet and muddy legs were the order of the day. Registration for the 2009 Mudfest, scheduled for Sat, April 11, opens on Jan 1 on www.pretzelcitysports.com.Thanks to all that attended this most memorable event!!!
08 Reading, PA TriMax St Patty's Scramble, 7.4M Trail Run 03/15/08
08 Reading, PA Ugly Mudder 7.25M Trail Run 02/17/08: The day was rather decent for a winter race and the trails were 80-90% clear of snow and ice; a HUGE difference over last year's polar cap expedition. We had finishers from 11 states (including Maine, New Hampshire, Mass. and Wisconsin), the District of Columbia and London, England. Two small problems did develop. First, the stallions that led the race had such visions of glory in their eyes that they blew by one set of turns at 8/10th of a mile and found marks about 100 yards later that were at the 2 mile mark. Some 300-340 of the 622 finishers followed them like housewifes to a underwear sale at Target and ended up running a 6 mile course, not 7.25M. That is why the times seem very spread out. Fortunately, some 97% of all those that won awards ran the same course so no harm, no foul. Also, we had 5th place awards in F30-39 & F40-49 which I completely forgot to present. MY BAD! Please check the results to see if you are one of the 2 young ladies that we hosed! A good day was had by most, a LOT of German beer was drank and, hopefully, all made it home safely
08 Reading, PA Chilly Cheeks 7.2M Trail Run 01/20/08: The results listed here are final. The 3 additional tags that threw the finishing places off have been incorporated and the finishing place listed for you is now correct. We also identified the 3 times that were inadvertently added to the time tape (sometimes, gloves hit buttons that aren't meant to be hit) and all times should now be "right on". Race temperature was about 22 degrees with a "real feel" temperature of about 0-2 degrees.
07 Birdsboro, PA Dirty Bird 15k Trail Run, French Creek Statet Park 11/25/07: Thanks to the 485 registrants who came from 12 states and the District of Columbia (including CO, MN, GA, VT, NC & OH). For those that didn't get a finisher's cup, I will have more printed and will carry these around with me to the various races I attend. Just let me know a few days before an event that you didn't get one and that I should bring one along. Sorry, as the app indicates, they are glass and will not be mailed!!!
07 Birdsboro, PA TriMax French Creek 5M & 10M Trail Runs 11/11/07: Graet race on a nippy but very sunny day. Our regrets for any misspellings or incorrect ages but red markers used to fill in the tags 'ran" from sweat and water and some of the info was impossibile to read when typing up the results.
07 Evansburg, PA Evansburg Challenge 10M Trail Run 10/28/07: The race directors have asked me to extend an apology for unexpected problems on their part. For the first time in 10 years, the park unexpectedly closed the road into the park to insure the safety of the 5k runners. This prevented the 7 mile aide station people from getting to their assignment and prevented some late comers from getting to registration. This closure was totally unexpected but will be planned for next year. Aside from that, it was one HECK of a beautiful day in the park.
07 Media, PA TriMax Ridley Creek 5K & 10K Trail Runs 10/20/07: People that finished this event said that the trail was awesome and had everything that you could want in a trail run other than snipers and creek crossings.
07 Reading, PA Half Wit Half 13.1M Trail Run 08/12/07: Congrats to the 471 finishers and especially Mike Dixon of Fanwood NJ who set raced to a course record!!! Heat but the humidity was bearable. Entries came from 17 states (plus Wash, DC) including California, New Mexico, Washington, & Colorado along with a woman who we forgot to introduce at the starting line from Stuttgart, Germany!!
07 Downingtown PA Marsh Creek Raptor Trail 10M Run 07/22/07: Scroll down this page to see the 5M & 10M results from last year. Both top males set course records.
07 Downingtown, PA Marsh Creek Raptor Trail 5M Run 07/22/07: Spoke with the race director and the bathroom line problem WILL be addressed for next year. His apologies
07 Elverson, PA Double Trouble 30K Trail Run 06/24/07: How nice was the weather? Nice enough to give us our largest number of finishers in the 30k ever: 31 more than ever before, a record by almost 35%. Race date for next year: Sunday, June 22, 2008. Check out your pics at www.kenshelton.com
07 Elverson, PA Double Trouble 15k Trail Run 06/24/07: As sometimes happens when 2 races are finishing at the same time & place, we had a different number of finishing times as we did finishers. At worst, they are off by 1 or 2 places. If yours is wrong, use whatever was on your watch or whatever you saw on the clock; if you were not too fried to remember it. Check out the pics taken that day at www.kenshelton.com.
07 Wilmington, DE Faithful Friends 5k Trail Run 06/10/07: Very rolling course on grassy trails in Brandywine Park. Very much a cross country course.
07 Phila, PA Wissahickon Trail 10k Res 06/02/07: HOT, HUMID and beautiful! Almost a 100% increase in attendance over 2006
07 Phila, PA Wissahickon Trail 5k Walk Res 06/02/07
07 Plowville, PA Charlie Horse 13.1M Trail Run 05/27/07: A scorcher but boy, was it great to see the Pagoda Pacers bring this race back! My compliments to them and especially race director Greg DeLand!
07 Valley Forge, PA Run for the Sparrows 5k Trail Run Results 05/19/07 The last few runners listed got lost & finished after the timing equipment was turned off. Their times are educated guesses.
07 Hamburg, PA Northern Berks Quad 5M Trail Run Results
07 Mt Penn Mudfest 15k Trail Run Results: It's Spring but you wouldn't know it from the race, as flurries actually occurred during the awards system. The creeks were chilly, the race was silly, many passed a crime scene on the way to the start and Sugar & Spice rocked away despite the frigid conditions. Thanks to all that attended. Registration for the 2008 Mt Penn Mudfest will open at 12:01 AM of Jan 1, 2008 on www.active.com-stay up, party, kiss your honey and then enter this stupid event! Also, check www.pagodapacers.com periodically for pictures that we'll post of the race. To see Ken Shelton's great race photos that are available for purchase, go to www.backprint.com/go.asp?19006503
07 Ugly Mudder 7.2M Trail Results : Thanks to all the crazies that showed up to do the most memorable race many of you will ever do. Click on the race name for results; they are preliminary. 4 tags fell of the board as they were being loaded and, unfortunately, there are 8 places on the results where there are "blanks". If you can not find your name, please share yo
ur fi07 cc results.pdfnish time or place with me so i can make these results more "complete". If you woud like to see the photos that were taken at the race, click here: http://www.backprint.com/view_event.asp?PID=273&EVENTID=18733&PWD=
07 Chilly Cheeks 7.2M Trail Run Results: Two clarifications on the times. Somewhere after the first 320 runners, a few people ran across the finish line a second time with a friend who was just finishing. That gave us 3 more times than runners.So, I eliminated 3 times that appeared to be "clustered" so that more folks later in the race would have a more accurate time listed. Also, finish times are expressed in minutes and seconds due to the limitation of a program I am using. Posted 1/22/07 at 3:20 PM
06 French Creek Dirty Bird 15k
06 Evansburg Challenge 10 Miler
06 Half Wit Half Marathon 13.1 Miler
06 Marsh Creek Raptor Run 10 Miler
06 Marsh Creek Raptor Run 5 Miler
06 French Creek Double Trouble 30K
06 French Creek Double Trouble 15k
06 Wissahickon 10K
06 Mt Penn Mudfest 15K
06 Ugly Mudder 7.25 Miler
