Sorry Tri-state-ers for the late posting -- I thought I'd posted this a month ago.


Re: [kt50] KT-KT one week to go!
Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:55 AM
From:
"Tom McGinnis" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
To:
kt50@yahoogroups.com
Cc:
indytrailrunners@yahoogroups.com
Sounds like we're looking at this:

6pm FRI Start at DEAM

(KT northbound)

4am SAT Turnaround at DELANEY

(KT southbound)

6pm SAT Finish at DEAM

7pm SAT eat eat eat (where?)

(I65 area, or Salem (Chinese, Mexican, VEGAN?!?)

8pm SAT Sleeeeeep (I-65 no-tell motel? DELANEY?)

(Sweet recovery)

8am SUN (open agenda, including hashing in L'ville at 1pm)






I teach Fridays until 2:00pm, and the soonest I can leave Indy would be 3:00pm, putting me at the southern end of the KT at 5:oopm. Earliest. Earliest. Earliest.

With a 5-6pm start time from Deam, it seems as if your plan is to take the first half slow/overnight, and do the second half -- when "tired" takes on teeth -- during daylight hours. (As well, if you hit the turnaround before dawn, you get to "run into the sun" which is a beautiful thing to do on the KT's east-facing escarpment.)

Because I have a heavy Friday am and Monday evening teaching load, and we're at the end of the semester, I'll have to wait til late to really nail down my own timing. But I will be available for support or miles -- not picky which -- so if Curt/whomever want to burn some miles, or trade off support, or both/whatever, that'd be great.

Regarding Deam Lake -- they will have cut off water at this point, and would not be an advisable locale.

FWIW, for myself, I would like to
1) do support
2) "speed-hike" overnight from Delaney to Deam, 24 hours Friday-Saturday
3) sleep out in the gear for my expected Xmas/NYE Appalachian Trail hike.

These things are at least somewhat contradictory, so..... we'll see.






--- On Fri, 12/4/09, iamtheshrub <russgoodman@hotmail.com> wrote:

> OK, so it looks like we have four
> crazy guys to run a hundred miles on the Knobstone Trail
> next weekend. It'll be myself, Scott, Tim and Zach (you guys
> still on board?). Are we still good to go next Friday at
> 5:00 p.m. from the south end? We could do 6:00 if that would
> be better, but let me know what you think. My only goal is
> to finish, but at the same time it would be nice to make it
> in under 24 hours.
> We've had three wonderful souls volunteer to help us as a
> rolling aid station. The Legendary Curt, the esteemable Tom,
> and Jim Halsey. Scott's mom will also be there to help out.
> Can you guys meet us at the start at 4:45ish? Another good
> option is to meet us half way at Delaney Park. If we start
> at 5:00 we should be there at the earliest by 3:00 a.m.,
> probably closer to 4:00.
> This would be a good time for anyone else to join us for
> running. Of course, I can't give an exact estimate of when
> we'll be there, but let's just say sometime close to 4:00
> Saturday morning. Note, they usually charge a few bucks to
> enter the park (I think $4).
> So the big question then is what do we want to do
> afterwards? Since we'll be going into Delaney park anyway,
> perhaps we could camp out there Saturday night and have a
> fire. I just asked and they will have hot showers available.
> Or we could camp at Deam Lake, which would be closer to the
> finish. I'm suggesting these two because I like to camp out,
> plus a campfire is always nice, but I do realize other
> people may not be into camping that much. Plus, Tom, the
> Louisville Jingleballs hash is the next day...which I may be
> interested in if I can still walk.
> Ideas? Comments? Anyone else for this little fun run?
> -Russ