Rickey dices with Death, and wins
Back in April I spoke to top US mountain man Rickey Gates about his season ahead. He told me that his season would be different in 2011, no WMRA mountain running, in fact he would be staying Stateside for most of the year…
Rickey also told me that he would be concentrating on his this ultra race, the Canadian Death Race. The Aspen-based runner had been getting some good miles in over the last few months, pacing Julien Chorier to his amazing win at the Hardock 100 a few weeks back and was obviously in strong form.
Running Times reports:
The short-course mountain specialist won his second Mount Washington Road Race title earlier this year and then skipped the U.S. Mountain Running Championships as he began his move to ultras.
After early pace-setter Jason Loutitt dropped, Gates controlled the 125K race and ran 12:18 to erase Hal Koerner’s 12:45 course record from a year ago. Ricky Reusser, a former Iowa State Cyclone cross country competitor was second in 12:48 and New Zealand’s Grant Guise third in 13:51.
Full results here
Rickey now heads to the Trans Rockies race, partnering Anna Frost in the mixed category.
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