Lottery entry went in this morning for Western States next June. They are expecting over 2000 applicants for 300 places this year. The odds just keep getting worse and worse, the live draw for the race is in 4 weeks time. Had a scare when I opened the qualification page in that you needed to have, in the last calender year from now or October 2009 onwards either:
1. Run 50 miles in 11 hours or less. Haven't run a 50 this year.
2. Finished 100km in under 14 hours. Haven't run 100km this year.
3. Finished a 100 miler. ok but this I only actually did a few weeks ago!!!!
They might have taken Badwater but not for sure. As Frank e mailed me afterwards, you have to keep this ultra game up these days otherwise pretty quickly you'd find you can't enter the bigger races ie. UTMB, Hardrock, Western States etc etc.
Afterwards I went for a round of golf with the old man which was awesome and then ran the 9 miles back to the house down pitch black country lanes with a broken headtorch.
The website is almost finished now. All the info is present and correct, the background and layout is done, my good friend Al Black is working on the logos tomorrow and then we're off and ready to take registrations. Fingers crossed we get a good turn out for the marathon and 50 mile but the main interest for me is getting numbers in for the 100. Im expecting anywhere from 10 - 100 people based on different peoples opinions. I hope its the latter although the work involved with staging the race will go up exponentially with an increase in numbers. I hope what we end up putting on blows people away.
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