Ancient Oaks 100 Mile Endurance Run Titusville FL Dec. 10, 2005 Results 1 Monica Scholz, CAN 19:19 (course record) 2 John Dodds 19:38 (men's course record) 3 Shane Sampson 20:13 4 Matt Mahoney 23:33 5 Cheryl Ibarra 25:18 (2nd female) 6 Don Ryan 25:36 7 Michael Melton 26:07 8 Chase Squires 26:16 9 Pam Byrne 27:03 (3rd female) 10 K. G. Nystrom 28:20 11 Scott Maxwell 28:37 12 Doug Dawkins 29:57 13 Robert Crosby 30:11 14 Louise Mason 30:24 (4th female) 15 Rich Limacher 31:11 21 starters Race director, Stu Gleman Lap splits LAP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Miles 3.459 6.918 10.377 13.836 17.295 20.754 24.213 27.672 31.131 34.59 38.049 41.508 44.967 48.426 51.885 55.344 58.803 62.262 65.721 69.18 72.639 76.098 79.557 83.016 86.475 89.934 93.393 96.852 100.311 Scholz 0:37 1:14 1:51 2:28 3:05 3:44 4:22 5:02 5:42 6:21 7:03 7:44 8:24 9:03 9:43 10:23 11:04 11:46 12:25 13:02 13:42 14:24 15:06 15:44 16:25 17:05 17:50 18:34 19:19 Dodds 0:31 1:02 1:33 2:04 2:37 3:09 3:42 4:15 4:50 5:28 6:07 6:51 7:34 8:16 8:58 9:48 10:17 11:03 11:46 12:30 13:16 14:04 14:52 15:43 16:32 17:20 18:08 18:52 19:38 Sampson 0:34 1:10 1:45 2:21 2:57 3:34 4:10 4:46 5:23 6:01 6:41 7:22 8:04 8:47 9:27 10:08 10:51 11:43 12:29 13:12 13:54 14:37 15:22 16:08 16:59 17:46 18:35 19:25 20:13 Mahoney 0:31 1:04 1:41 2:19 2:57 3:38 4:17 5:00 5:49 6:36 7:21 8:08 8:51 9:36 10:17 11:07 11:59 12:53 13:50 14:45 15:38 16:34 17:27 18:26 19:25 20:27 21:30 22:40 23:33 Ibarra 0:43 1:25 2:06 2:47 3:33 4:19 5:06 5:55 6:42 7:30 8:18 9:06 9:58 10:54 11:51 12:46 13:39 14:35 15:29 16:27 17:28 18:27 19:25 20:30 21:34 22:42 23:40 24:28 25:18 Ryan 0:41 1:14 1:50 2:27 3:04 3:41 4:21 5:01 5:43 6:27 7:13 8:02 8:50 9:42 10:29 11:25 12:21 13:19 14:18 15:27 16:35 17:44 18:57 20:11 21:21 22:32 23:38 24:37 25:36 Melton 0:39 1:25 2:09 2:55 3:40 4:26 5:15 6:02 6:48 7:33 8:29 9:19 10:12 11:01 11:52 12:48 13:46 14:39 15:40 16:38 17:52 18:48 19:54 21:15 22:26 23:47 24:34 25:22 26:07 Squires 0:40 1:22 2:03 2:47 3:31 4:17 5:03 5:47 6:36 7:27 8:18 9:06 9:58 10:53 11:51 12:46 13:41 14:35 15:28 16:27 17:27 18:27 19:25 20:30 21:33 22:42 24:02 25:13 26:16 Byrne 0:43 1:21 2:00 2:39 3:15 3:56 4:42 5:30 6:19 7:16 8:10 9:06 10:09 11:08 11:55 12:42 13:33 14:31 15:31 16:27 17:28 18:28 19:26 20:33 21:46 23:01 24:34 25:53 27:03 Nystrom 0:48 1:33 2:22 3:12 4:05 5:00 5:56 6:49 7:44 8:39 9:36 10:31 11:26 12:24 13:29 14:25 15:24 16:24 17:27 18:32 19:36 20:46 21:55 22:56 24:04 25:02 26:08 27:17 28:20 Maxwell 0:31 1:08 1:48 2:27 3:10 3:53 4:37 5:23 6:07 6:53 7:44 8:33 9:22 10:09 10:56 11:46 12:45 13:51 14:59 16:12 17:19 18:27 19:42 22:12 23:30 24:49 26:07 27:21 28:37 Dawkins 0:40 1:21 2:03 2:52 3:38 4:30 5:25 6:25 7:20 8:19 9:27 10:28 11:36 12:38 13:40 14:43 15:54 17:05 18:38 19:51 21:16 22:40 23:53 25:14 26:03 27:04 28:07 29:06 29:57 Crosby 0:37 1:15 1:58 2:56 3:24 4:07 5:00 5:46 6:41 7:27 8:15 9:03 9:55 10:51 11:48 12:54 13:56 15:09 16:22 17:53 19:17 20:39 22:19 23:52 25:07 26:33 27:53 29:03 30:11 Mason 0:42 1:29 2:20 3:07 3:59 4:55 5:51 6:47 7:45 8:49 9:52 10:53 12:05 13:46 14:22 15:30 16:53 18:07 19:23 20:50 21:48 22:47 23:40 24:50 25:49 26:53 28:08 29:20 30:24 Limacher 0:42 1:29 2:16 3:09 4:01 4:55 5:49 6:43 7:38 8:34 9:34 10:30 11:53 13:02 14:10 15:22 16:36 17:50 19:09 20:28 21:17 23:08 24:27 25:36 26:41 27:44 28:49 29:56 31:11 Krolewicz0:31 1:04 1:41 2:15 2:52 3:39 4:33 5:18 6:12 7:19 8:15 9:06 9:58 10:54 11:58 12:56 14:17 18:14 24:23 DONE (50mile opt) Valentine0:41 1:26 2:14 3:06 4:00 5:00 5:59 6:58 7:59 9:01 10:08 11:17 12:30 13:40 14:01 DONE Gleman 0:51 1:48 2:54 3:52 4:44 5:43 6:44 7:38 8:36 10:11 11:17 12:24 13:22 15:02 16:46 DONE (50mile opt) Miller 0:48 1:21 2:03 2:41 3:29 4:11 4:59 5:42 6:30 7:50 8:50 9:42 10:41 11:57 DONE Hughes 0:42 1:29 2:15 3:05 3:53 4:42 5:42 6:37 7:30 8:37 9:34 10:35 DONE Jans 0:50 1:44 2:37 3:33 4:27 5:24 6:34 7:38 8:44 9:53 11:12 DONE Sullivan (*) * * * * * * * * 5:42 6:52 7:31 10:48 11:47 12:49 DONE Jim started in Orlando at 6:00AM and ran 30.0 miles to get to the Park. He gets an (*) 50 mile. Ancient Oaks 100 Mile Race Report by Matt Mahoney The race is 29 laps of a 3.46 mile trail loop in the Enchanted Forest in Titusville FL. The trail is mostly flat or slightly rolling with 1% to 3% grades and no climbs over 20 vertical feet. It crosses a sandy ridge and goes through a long section of deep canopy and moist earth with lots of roots but no rocks. The weather was pleasant, low 57F and 100% humidity, high about 75F and partly cloudy. The race started at 7AM Saturday with a 32 hour cutoff. There were 21 starters. The race was self timed. Runners wrote down their lap splits on a score sheet at the aid station at the park headquarters. John Dodds, Scott Maxwell, Ray Krolewicz and I foolishly ran the first lap in 31 minutes, followed by Shane Sampson in 34 and Monica Scholz of Canada in 37. Monica holds the course record here in 20 hours and 47 minutes. Not the women's course record. The course record. She set it in 2002, two years after setting a world record for the most 100 mile finishes in a year, with 23. We all knew Monica would run us down eventually. Monica's legs never get tired. Monica does not slow down toward the end of the race like a normal ultrarunner. Monica would win the race, then go back out and run 10 or 20 more miles to cheer on the others. Dodds led lap 2 in 62 minutes, followed 2 minutes later by me and Krolewicz. Dodds had not run here before, but I had heard he had talent. He was second at the Leanhorse 100 and had run about 36 hours at Badwater. Maxwell fell back a bit. Last year he led the race for 70 miles, only to be passed by Monica and then drop at mile 76. Lap 4 (14 miles), Krolewicz pulled ahead into second behind Dodds (2:04) with me in third. Krolewicz holds the world record for the most lifetime ultra wins (151) and has run 100 miles in under 14 hours. But that was years ago. Now at age 50 (also my age) he is not so fast any more. I knew and he knew that I would catch him later. It was shortly after the marathon (about 4:40) where Monica passed me. By now I had passed Krolewicz but was 30 minutes behind Dodds and 10 minutes behind Shane Sampson. I was not worried about Sampson because I had beaten him here twice before when he went out too hard. I should have worried, though. Dodds was first through 50K in 4:50, then Sampson in 5:23, Monica in 5:42, Don Ryan in 5:43 and me in 5:49. This was Ryan's fifth 100 mile race. He had run Rocky Raccoon and Arkansas Traveller twice each, and said this course was tougher. Fifty miles was in the middle of a loop so the following times are interpolated: Dodds in 8:37, Sampson in 9:07, Monica in 9:23, me in 9:57, Ryan in 10:05. It was here that Dodds lapped me for the second time, the last lap before dark. I stayed with him for 3 miles. He was still running every step, but he was breathing twice as hard as I was. He was tired. He was taking only liquids and worried about his stomach. But he was more worried that Monica was closing the gap. When you write your time after each lap you can see exactly where the other runners are and what pace they are running. Dodds sucked it up. He led at 100K in 11:03, followed by Sampson in 11:43, Monica in 11:46, me in 12:53. Monica's pace was relentless. She passed Sampson at mile 65, and Dodds at mile 83. I was far back in fourth and just wanted to get done. The worst part is the frustration of knowing you only have a marathon to go and knowing damn well it will take you 8 hours that you should be sleeping. By 90 miles I was so sleepy that I had to take 2 minute naps, sitting on a log, putting my head down and going instantly into REM sleep until I was awakened by mosquitos. They won't bother you if you keep moving. It wasn't until 98 miles that I was rejuvinated by the first hint of dawn. Krolewicz dropped out after 65 miles. Race director Stu Gleman ran 50 miles. K. G. Nystrom, who has an artificial knee, ran with crutches. Jim Sullivan ran 30 miles from his house in Oveido to the start, arrived late, and ran 20 more miles. What was he thinking?