My pal Harvey Lewis, a high school teacher from Cincinnati, won the Badwater 135 ultramarathon in July. That race through Death Valley to Mt. Whitney Portals is famous for being scorching hot.

Today, he started running the nation's coldest ultramarathon, Arrowhead 135, which starts at International Falls, aka, the Nation's Icebox.

At Badwater, runners have a support crew alongside to pace and provide water and supplies. At Arrowhead, runners are self-supported. They have to pull all their water, food and camping gear in a sled. They must also finish with 3,000 extra calories worth of food or they are disqualified. I guess that rule is to show they had enough extra food to survive if conditions got really tough. So Harvey's racing with a big jar of Jif peanut butter he hopes he won't have to open.

I don't know enough about the race to say if a win by Harvey at Arrowhead would make him the first Badwater champion to win both, but I'll be watching his progress online.

You'll find Harvey Lewis and the other runners' tracking info below the skiers' listing at this site:
http://www.arrowheadultra.com/...results/2015-results

Go Harvey!

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Sharon McN
@IronCharo
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Clif Bar Pace Team 2003-2018