2013 Hardrock 100 Outcomes and Article Roundup – iRunFar

From begin to end, each the lads’s and ladies’s 2013 Hardrock 100 races have been dynamic and unpredictable. Two issues which might be at all times predictable in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, although, are gnarly terrain and the monsoon season, and I don’t suppose there’s a Hardrocker who escaped an honest dousing of mountain steepness and storms. However, in the long run, Sebastien Chaigneau (post-race interview) and Darcy Africa (post-race interview) emerged as victors among the many rigors of competitors and Mom Nature. Alongside the way in which, Seb additionally reset the counterclockwise route’s course file, which was beforehand 24:38 and held by the venerable Karl Meltzer (pre-race interview), who dropped this yr because of leg fatigue from racing the Western States 100 two weeks in the past.

Along with this outcomes article, yow will discover our full play-by-play of the race in addition to a set of our pre-race interviews and preview on our Hardrock 100 Reside Protection web page.

As common, we’ll be updating this text with extra outcomes in addition to hyperlinks to Hardock 100-related articles, photograph galleries, and race reviews. Depart a remark to tell us for those who come throughout any!

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2013 Hardrock 100 Males’s Race

Off the beginning line, France-born, Colorado-dwelling Joe Grant (pre-race interview) and Frenchman Seb ran collectively in Joe-leading-Seb-tucked-in-behind formation. Every time the pair encountered an support station or path observers, they have been stated to have been chatting deeply in French. And, at occasions, one would look ahead to the opposite so they may proceed on collectively. The dynamic duo stayed paired till someplace earlier than the Ouray support station at mile 56.6 the place Seb turned up first and assumed the lead for the remainder of the race. At Ouray, Joe adopted a brief distance behind however would in the end drop from the race by returning to Ouray due to a number of bodily illnesses.

In the remainder of the sector, eventual second-place finisher and Colorado-based Troy Howard performed it cool and across the center of the top-ten males from the get go. As different males got here and went, Troy moved up slot-by-slot till he filed himself into his closing place on the Ouray support station. From about Ouray to Telluride at mile 72, Troy ran at simply over 20 minutes behind Seb, making us all marvel if it will be a race for the win all the way in which to the end. However Seb accelerated after Telluride and created a powerful hole over Troy.

The steadiness of the rostrum included one other Coloradan, Scott Jaime, who ran sturdy all day and inside the top-five for nearly the whole race. A couple of third of the way in which across the Hardrock course loop, Scott stated he’d by no means felt so good that far alongside in a 100-mile race. Evidently, he continued to really feel properly and he shifted into third place as others slipped again. The finishes of Seb, Troy, and Scott made this yr’s males’s race an all masters podium.

Lowland Cali expertise Chris Value confirmed high-altitude racing prowess for the primary time within the San Juans, ending a powerful fourth place. And the fifth via tenth-place males every confirmed all-day smarts, most of them operating conservatively, place-wise, at first and staying sturdy when others faltered.

2013 Hardrock 100 Males’s Outcomes

1. Sebastien Chaigneau (The North Face) – 24:25:50 (counterclockwise course file; previous file, Karl Meltzer 24:38, 2009) (pre-race and post-race interviews)
2. Troy Howard – 25:20:09 (post-race interview)
3. Scott Jaime (Pearl Izumi) – 26:38:43
4. Chris Value (INKnBURN) – 26:51:13
5. Ted Mahon – 28:19:27
6. Nick Coury (Aravaipa Working) – 28:50:38
7. Jared Campbell (La Sportiva) – 29:32:47
8. Jason Poole – 29:41:11
9. Adam Hewey (Seven Hills Working Store) – 29:55:57
10. Jonathan Robinson – 30:41:39

Full outcomes.

2013 Hardrock 100 Girls’s Race

Oh Diana Finkel, how fickle this race is for you. Coloradan Diana shot off the beginning line, discovering herself immediately within the prime 10 general and the highest 5 by Grouse Gulch support station at mile 42.1. The multiple-time winner even spent a while in third place general through the race’s second third. However when she arrived to Telluride at mile 72, she was starting to look wobbly. As in comparison with her operating friends, her tempo dropped noticeably till mile 88 on the KT support station the place she was slowed to a DNF halt. Finkel has a severe historical past with racing-related kidney points that took her out of the 2012 race and made her very in poor health after the 2010 race, however we don’t but know what in the end led to this yr’s drop.

Two different D’s as a substitute fill out the entrance of the ladies’s subject, Darcy Africa of Colorado and Darla Askew of Oregon. Darcy ran because the second-place lady all day, till Diana dropped at mile 88 and she or he assumed the lead. Though she received the race, I don’t suppose Darcy would name this her finest day. As early as Grouse Gulch at mile 42.1, she famous troubles along with her uphill operating and mountaineering. However Darcy is named a better and this race was no totally different; she turned up her effort within the final 20 miles and all through her return to the Silverton begin/end line.

And Darla appeared to be a good steam prepare chugging down the tracks simply behind Darcy all day. It must also be famous that Darla smiled the entire manner, I believe, a constructive presence everywhere in the race course. That is Darla’s second end and a two hour, 43-minute enchancment over her third-place end final yr, on what most Hardrockers name the tougher, counterclockwise route.

2013 Hardrock 100 Girls’s Outcomes

1. Darcy Africa (Hoka One One) – 29:54:55 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
2. Darla Askew (Drymax) – 31:09:52 (post-race interview)
3. Betsy Nye – 36:46:42
4. Sarah McCloskey – 36:51:03
5. Betsy Kalmeyer – 39:48:40

Full outcomes.

2013 Hardrock 100 Articles, Race Studies, and Extra

Articles and Photograph Galleries

• iRunFar’s race day Fb photograph albums: Begin, Cunningham Gulch (mile 9.2), Maggie Gulch (mile 15.3), Sherman (mile 28.7), Grouse Gulch (mile 41.2), Bear Creek Path (mile 53-ish), Ouray (mile 56.6), Governor Basin (mile 64.5), KT and Mineral Creek (miles 89 and 98), and End, and Awards Ceremony
• Matt Trappe’s photograph album [broken link removed]
• Our video of this yr’s Hardrock 100 begin
• Drymax’s Fb photograph albums from Cunningham Gulch and Grouse Gulch
• Get Prepared For – Hardrock 100 Teaser Video (Seb Chaigneau’s video sequence)
• No Foolin’: Hallucinations A part of the Hardrock Expertise – Durango Herald
• A Lengthy Run to Kiss the Hardrock – Durango Herald
• Durango Herald Photograph Album
• Seb Chaigneau Conquista las Américas Llevándose la Hardrock 100 (Spanish)
• Victoire de Sébastien Chaigneau sur la Hardrock 100 (French)
• iRunFar’s pre-race video interviews with Darcy Africa and Seb Chaigneau
• iRunFar’s post-race interviews with Seb Chaigneau and Darcy Africa
• iRunFar’s ending movies of Seb Chaigneau, Darcy Africa, and the inspiring Adam Hewey
• iRunFar’s post-race interviews with Darla Askew and Troy Howard
• Criss Furman’s Fb albums: “Hardrock” and “The Path Runners” (additionally Hardrock)
• Ben Brashear’s photograph gallery [broken link removed]
• Darcy Africa’s and Scott Jaime’s diet report from First Endurance
• AJW’s tribute to Scott Jaime
• Dakota Jones on pacing Troy Howard

Race Studies

[Last Updated: 2/20/18]