Houston Running: Western States 100 - Badwater Double Attempt

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Western States 100 - Badwater Double Attempt

This year, seven (7) runners will attempt - at least via the entrants list - the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run and the Badwater 135. They are as follows:

Shannon Farar-Griefer, F, 46, Hidden Hill, CA
David Goggins, M, 32, Chula Vista, CA
Jonathan Gunderson, M, 29, San Francisco, CA
Dean Karnazes, M, 44, San Francisco, CA
Brian Kuhn, M, 33, Champaign, IL
Anne Langstaff, F, 46, Alpine, CA
Linda McFadden, F, 44, Modesto, CA

Last year, 2006, the only runner to do both was:

Dean Karnazes, M, 43, San Francisco, CA, Western States (21:38:34), Badwater (33:33:41)

Western States occurs this weekend from Auburn to Squaw Valley, California and Badwater will get underway on Monday, July 23.

There will be three (3) Texans in both events.

Western States will feature Dallas' Tom Crull, 64, Katy's Nick Papafote, 43, and Austin's Meredith Terranova, 32.

Badwater will have Fort Worth's Stephen Hudgens, Wichita Falls' Frank (Jim) Ingalls and Houston's Tim Neckar.

1 Comments:

Tommy said...: According to Karnazes blog he is foregoing the WS100 to run for 24 hours on a treadmill above Times Square in New York.

Here is the link:

http://rodale.typepad.com/deans_run_home/

So he apparently won't make the double this year ... he's doing something else just as crazy.; 12:33 PM