Houston Running: German Collazos' Western States 100 Race Report

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

German Collazos' Western States 100 Race Report

I mentioned in my race report for the Lunar Rendezvous Run 5K in Clear Lake a couple of weeks ago that I had a "chance to talk to Strider/HMSAer German Collazos for the first time" and that he "completed the Western States (WS) 100 this year for the second time in his career and he said he did so this year despite not really training for it." (Well, actually, it was his third finish!)

I found a link on the Hill Country Trail Runners site of German's 2005 Western States 100 race report. I thought you would enjoy the read by clicking on it here.

3 Comments:

Sarah said...: Wow, I have absolutely no desire to run that far. But am SO impressed with the people who do!; 7:14 AM
Sam said...: I'm with you Sarah. What a ton of respect I have for someone who can run that. Even more so, someone who can do it after "not really training for it". Yikes.

Great stuff! Keep up the great reporting. Always entertaining to read your blog.; 12:42 PM
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