Daniel Probst's blog

Thought you'd all like to see the article in today's paper. Sorry they wouldn't print the club name or tee shirt. I tried to sneak it in the photo. Hope to see everyone next weekend. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/477/story/384791.html

A Club Fat Ass adventure to the Grand Canyon

 

HARDROCK 100 aka the H.U.R.T. buddies team up again for Daniel’s success in the world’s hardest 100…

So, heard of the little race called Hard rock 100. Well I can say I have lived to tell you about it. On Sunday the 15th at 4:40 am after running for 46 hours and 40 minutes I crossed the line and kissed the rock to finish my first Hard rock 100! I’m still in need of much sleep and so this will be short. In fact it all still seems like a dream. An absolutely incredible dream. I dreamed of huge mountains, brilliant wild flowers, cascading waterfalls, endless streams, 14,000 ft sunsets and kissing a rock. Was it really real? Did I really finish the toughest 100.5 mile mountain run on earth? Yes I think I did. So after I get a little more sleep I’ll tell you all about it.

Here's Tina's acount of our 27 hour run around northern California.

THREE PEAKS - MISSED BY (less than) A MILE

GOAL:  Three Peaks - Mt. Shasta (14,162'), Black Butte (6,325'), and Mt. Eddy (9,025') - climbed consecutively, connecting each peak by running the trails & roads between them; anticipated to be done within a 24-hour period.

DISTANCE:  Roughly 50 miles, as measured by GPS.

TOTAL ASCENT:  18,000 feet (approximately).

TIME:  27 hours.

PARTICIPANTS:  Tina Ure, 47, of Mount Shasta
                        Daniel Probst, 28, of Bellingham WA

WHY: 

1. Don't ask - ultrarunners are simply crazy. 
2. Training for Western States 100-Mile race later in June. 
3. The inspiration was Laurie Bagley's summit of Mt. Everest last year, May 25, 2006. After reading in the paper of her amazing accomplishment, I was stretching my imagination just trying to visualize a 29,000-foot mountain. I looked around at our "little" mountains, and mentally added up the heights of the 3 peaks we see from town - Shasta, Black Butte, and Mt. Eddy - and realized that altogether they total just over 29,000! Then it occurred to me that they might be able to be climbed consecutively, connecting them via trails and dirt & gravel roads (and just a bit of pavement). So I've been thinking of this adventure for just over a year.

THE RESULT:  Successful summits of Mt. Shasta (5-3/4 hrs to top) and Black Butte (65 mins from the trailhead to top - after 2-1/2 hrs running there from Bunny Flat); Close but not quite (within 0.8 mile) to the Mt. Eddy summit, at the 8000-foot saddle; headed down at that point for safety reasons, returning to a car shuttle at the Parks Creek trailhead.

This sunday on the history channel you can check out what it was like at the Rock and Ice ultra I competed this last March.  watch the show Ice Road truckers and you'll see what it's like at -40 and below. here's a link the the web page.  http://www.history.com/minisites/iceroadtruckers 

Well It's been a crazy two weeks and an awesome way to kick off the summer.  Tina Ure who I finished the HURT 100 with in Hawaii invited me down to California for a little summer warm up.  We ran the Silver State 50 mile in Reno, ran the Western States training run in Auburn and did a 28 hour custom 3peaks run including a climb up and down 14,162 ft Mt Shasta.

I survived!  I’ve had a shower and smelling much better.  It was an amazing experience and have made some great new friends in the process.  I’ll fill you all in when I get back in a few days.  I’m holding my comments about ending the race short.  I’ll just say I was not in on it!