SANTA BARBARA RED ROCK 40 MILE ENDURANCE RUN

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2009

DISTANCE: 40.68

ELEVATION GAIN: 11,729

STARTERS: 58

FINISHERS: 53

YOUNGEST FINISHER: TOPHER NORLING - 18

OLDEST FINISHER: PATRICIA LANDIS - 68

K9 FINISHER: SUGAR

Montrail Vitesse     

The 2009 Santa Barbara Red Rock 40 Mile Endurance Run was a great success. The run started at 6:10 a.m. on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at the Red Rock Day Use Area in the Santa Barbara Los Padres National Forest Back Country. The estimated distance was 40.68 miles and the total elevation gain was 11,729 feet. Fifty-eight runners started and fifty-three finished. The crisp, cool, autumn weather was ideal for running. Bright yellow Sycamore Trees and dark blue skies set the tone for the day. One black bear was spotted by Eric Wickland and a full grown mountain lion was seen trotting down the trail by the crew at Camino Cielo. Conditions were perfection. Mike Swan of Santa Barbara was the first place finisher. His time was 6 hours and 55 minutes. Four minutes behind Mike was 27 year old, Eric Wickland of Canoga Park California. First female and forth over all finisher was 45 year old, Suzanna Bon of Sonoma California. Suzanna’s time was 7 hours and 45 minutes. Behind Suzanna was the female team of Kathy Higgins and Shatzi Sovich who finished together in a time of 9 hours and 19 minutes. The youngest finisher was Topher Norling of Santa Maria. Topher is 18 years old, he finished seventh over all and his time was 8 hours and 29 minutes. Our oldest finisher was Patricia Landis of Santa Barbara who is 68 years old. Patricia’s time was 14 hours and 6 minutes. Eric Meech of La Jolla California celebrated his 40th birthday by completing the 40 mile run with his wife Cecilla.

The run would not be possible without the generosity of our volunteers and sponsors. It is not possible for me name everyone who helped out, but here are a few who played a big part in the success of the event. Jesse Malman of Montrail, Karl King of SUCCEED! XY Weiss of Dirty Girl Gaiters, akabill the creator of our Hawaiian Kukini finisher’s medallions. Stu Sherman, race day Director. Geoff Clinton, Jeff Zahn and Tim Cullum, transportation. Chris Scott, Sue Johnston and Deb Clem, Romero Canyon Aid (yummy, yummy, meow, meow). Bill Rupp, Nancy Kaplan and Dean Dawson, Camino Cielo Aid (the wildest, coldest, windiest place on earth). Dave Everett, who hiked in the water at San Ysidro Aid. Manley Klassen and Mike Watling, who rode in the water and manned the Gibraltar Mine Aid (the darkest, loneliest place on earth). Bill Kee, the "Grim Sweeper" who entertained us with his guitar on Friday night and then ran the finial 20 miles and swept the course on Saturday night. My wife Beverly, who puts up with all of my running crap. I am sure there are many more, we appreciate your contributions and apologize if I have omitted your names.

Finally, thank you to the founder of the Santa Barbara 9 Trails 35 Mile Endurance Run, Patsy Dorsey. Patsy started this event in 1990. Her idea was to share the trails that she loves with the ultra running community. Currently, Patsy’s health prevents her from organizing the run, but her dream lives on in each of us. Patsy’s vision, passion, strength and determination should be a lesson for us all.

See you next year for our 20 anniversary. Saturday, November 27, 2010

Luis Escobar

PLACE

LAST

FIRST

AGE

SEX

TIME

1

SWAN

MIKE

39

M

6:55

2

WICKLAND

ERIC

27

M

6:59

3

DOBBERTEEN

DEAN

34

M

7:22

4

BONN

SUZANNA

45

F

7:45

5

REISS

THOMAS

41

M

7:55

6

MEDINA

GUILLERMO

35

M

8:08

7

NORLING

TOPHER

18

M

8:29

8

WADDLE

DAN

30

M

8:29

9

BRUNO

BENJAMIN

25

M

8:43

10

HUGHES

KEN

50

M

9:03

11

VICARIO

JEFF

39

M

9:07

12

OSBORNE

MATT

36

M

9:08

13

STEWART

JONATHAN

38

M

9:11

14

HIGGINS

KATHY

44

F

9:19

15

SOVICH

SCHATZI

42

F

9:19

16

KUMEDA

ANDY

41

M

9:19

20

RODGERS

BIG JOHN

45

M

9:20

21

COHEN

HOWARD

51

M

9:24

22

DUBRUL

SCOTT

41

M

9:30

23

ESCOBAR

LUIS

46

M

9:30

24

GARNETT

GRETCHEN

47

F

9:36

25

SWANSON

MARK

55

M

9:44

26

BERTOLET

MATT

27

M

9:51

27

BRYANT

PATTY

50

F

9:59

28

FOLKS

VICTORIA

35

F

10:04

29

MEECH

CECILIA

37

F

10:06

30

MEECH

ERIC

40

M

10:06

31

KONOSKE

MICHELLE

45

F

10:09

32

HERZOG

JOE

41

M

10:25

33

EDMUNDS

ERIC

56

M

10:40

34

SANGER

SANDRA

39

F

10:43

35

RAMER

ANDI

36

F

10:43

36

BERKIN

AMY

44

F

10:47

37

JOURNEY

CW

53

M

10:58

38

COVARRABAIS

REFAEL

41

M

11:23

39

SCHULZE

DAVID

50

M

11:25

40

GRAHAM

CHUCK

45

M

11:34

41

HILMER

TIA

38

F

11:51

42

HILMER

MICHAEL

40

M

11:51

43

AMAN

DINA

37

F

11:58

44

KUERTEN

THOMAS

43

M

11:58

45

OZAKI

DONN

50

M

11:58

46

VALENTIN

SYLVERE

32

M

12:01

47

CASSIDY

THOMAS

52

M

13:01

48

ABUNDIS

KIM

50

F

13:03

49

FAZIO

VICTOR

36

M

13:03

50

OWENS

STEVE

54

M

13:03

51

VELASCO

GEORGE

56

M

13:42

52

BAKER

HENRY

62

M

14:03

53

LANDIS

PATRICIA

68

F

14:06

Ode to 9 trails

by

Ken Hughes

SB 9 Trails will always have a special place in my heart because she was my first. After all the others no one rocks my world like she does. On our first date, I was only going to go half way, but I got all eager and tried to go all the way. She finally let me after a long time and I could not walk for a week afterwards.  The next date we had was the best time ever and was never so happy, however the next year she sent me home with nothing but a broken heart. Last year she moved away, became kinder, gentler, and even changed her name to Rose. It was nice, but just not the same girl I know and love. This year she is back in town, dyed her hair red and has gotten long, lean and mean. The anticipation has gotten me so excited that I just can’t hide it!

Hey Luis,
 
Hope you can pass this along to Stu and to all the volunteers for me along with my HUGE thanks for yet another epic running event and experience. What a fantastic day, couldn't have ordered better weather or a more beautiful and challenging course or a more organized race. You guys rocked it big time, especially Nancy and the crew who braved the constant winds up at the top of Cold Springs- geez, and we thought the run was hard! I'm wearing my Akabill amulet with a lot of pride and great memories today, thanks so very much for everything.
 
Cheers and Happy Running, Gretchen Garnett

 

Red Rock was a great run, on a great day, helped by fabulous volunteers & capped off with a fantastic finish under a full moon (only the final 16 of us got to see the mountains under that moon!).

Thanks, Luis and all of his helpers! Henry Baker

Luis, I am not a bs-ing sandbagger!  Honestly, I knew I had a good base coming in but wasn't sure how my legs would hold up on the technical climbing stuff as most of my training/running since late Aug was in prep for the SF one-day.....long, slow, flat, pavement.  That's why I was not expecting much out there.  I was pleased that my legs were still pretty responsive even in the last miles.  But talk about bs-ing....did you say 'it's all downhill' to the turn-around?  I guess you meant all the trail/road excluding those UPHILLS.  I got to the San Yisidro water and asked Guillermo and Benjamin how far to the turn around and they said 'about 4 miles, but there are some monster climbs' WHAT?  I silently cursed you but then when I got to the top and saw the view again, I blessed you......

Huge thanks for you efforts in putting this event together.  I am so glad I was able to make it down, to hook up with all you cool southland folks and make some new friends in this amazingly rich community of ultrarunners.  A few notable stand-outs...the woman who had the same sweet smile on her face on my way back through camino cielo as she did on my way out.  I believe this might be Nancy.  What a 'giver!' There all day in the wind, smiling, encouraging, sharing her warm spirit and quietly insisting I have some soup before I headed down the trail. That soup carried me!  An absolute gem, please give her my sincere thanks.  Karen's oatmeal/butterscotch cookies at romero, and of course bill's burritos, which again carried me for miles.  As I'm sure you know the list could go on and on as all the details and people of the event were perfectly aligned.
That's all I can think of for right now.  It hurts when I bend over, go up/down stairs, walk and move around in general.  It's a pleasant, satisfied type of pain that I enjoy in a twisted sort of way.... kinda like I earned it.  Thanks for creating the opportunity for me to have many 'moments'  out there on the trail.  Moments of gratitude, joy, awe and revelry in my own sense of vitality..... why I keep coming back to the trails.  Feel proud and rest well.  

Suzanna Bon

Luis, Thanks for a great event. Hopefully we will return next year. Haven't been to doc yet but I'm pretty sure I have a stress fracture on my foot. Swollen, black and blue, and painful...dang! Great course Luis! Thanks to all! 

Monica Ochs

the Cougar Story

I just started to walk towards the other side of my car when a large 4x4 truck devilishly roared up with dust swirling everywhere ( you probably want to know how I could tell their dust swirls from all the others. Okay maybe not.).  Within seconds of the vehicle stopping, both doors fly open and out jumped two very rotund men, fully decked out in matching camouflaged killing wear, and armed.  One had a shotgun (he very quickly placed it back in truck when I came near) and the other with a holstered handgun.  They were extremely intense and I was taken back for just a moment, but I had to ask what the hell they were doing with the guns.  They avoided my question but went on to explain that they immediately bee lined it to us because not more than 50 yards away from our aid station was a 4 foot tall female mountain lion.  She had ran right in front of their truck and up the hill adjacent to us.  They surmised she must have smelled our food and was coming toward us to eat and they had to warn us.   They then proceeded to canvas the nearby area (guns, binoculars, and god only knows what else!) for about 10 minutes.  They came back up to the aid station and told us the mountain lion probably went a different direction but we should keep an eye out for her.  I think they would have continued to check out the area if it were not for a phone call on of men received.   I believe it was his wife, he immediately changed his tone to something very submissive and told his friend they had to leave immediately because he was supposed to been home by now (so much for the big bad hunter-hee hee hee).I never did figure out what they were doing with all the guns and I think the two men were way scarier than the mountain lion!

 
Nancy Kaplan - Camino Cielo Aid
 

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