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.
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.
A friend of mine who has completed 2 Badwaters and crewed 5 more said last year’s Badwater wasn’t that hot, barely making it to 100º
Bill Bradley who has completed Badwater, Badwater Double (including the Mt Whitney summit) has failed to complete Arrowhead a number of times. A totally different beast. It will be interesting to follow online.
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.
A friend of mine who has completed 2 Badwaters and crewed 5 more said last year’s Badwater wasn’t that hot, barely making it to 100º
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.
A friend of mine who has completed 2 Badwaters and crewed 5 more said last year’s Badwater wasn’t that hot, barely making it to 100º
Fixed that for you
Plus, it was on the “new” NPS Approved course, which was less challenging as well
As far as I can tell, it’s an exciting race out there in the frozen tundra.
Less than an hour separates the top seven runners after 15 to 16 hours. My pal Harvey Lewis is in third place about a half hour behind leader Marcus Berggren. The 2013 Badwater champ Carlos Sa is in fifth, not far behind Harvey.
At the second checkpoint, it appears that Badwater defending champ Harvey Lewis has moved into second place, about 13 minutes behind Marcus Berggren. Carlos Sa, the Portugese Badwater winner from 2013, is still in fifth place, but an hour behind Harvey.
Bill Bradley played in the 1964 olympics, and it was the 1972 team that lost to the soviets, not 76. Not sure how I got it in my head that he was on that team.
