2012 Hardrock 100 Live Coverage
July 12, 2012 by Bryon Powell · 88 Comments
[Update: With the race in the books, I thought I'd link to our 2012 Hardrock 100 results article. However, you can still click on CoverItLive below to get a full play-by-play recap of the 2012 Hardrock 100!]
The 2012 Hardrock 100 begins at 6 am MDT on Friday, July 13, as 140 runners take off from Silverton, Colorado for a journey through the San Juan Mountains. While labeled a “run” rather than a “race,” there’ll no doubt be hot competition for both the men’s and women’s titles, so we’ll be bringing you race updates and commentary from the front of the pack all day … and night… and the next day. As usual, we’ll be livecasting the event on iRunFar’s Twitter feed; however, we’ll also be combining our twitter feed with other news sources in the below CoverItLive window.
Note: Due to Hardrock’s temporal length, we’ll not be hosting a discussion with CoverItLive itself. However, we encourage you to discuss the race at length in the comments section!
Here are a couple resources to help you follow the race:
- The Hardrock 100 website, including course information and past results;
- Runner aid station time updates on Hardrock Live;
- iRunFar’s Hardrock preview;
- Evan Honeyfield’s Voices of Hardrock video series;
- Karl Meltzer’s Hardrock odds; and
- All of iRunFar’s Hardrock 100 articles and resources.
iRunFar’s coverage of the Hardrock 100 is entirely self-funded. Please consider making a donation to help cover our lodging and fuel as well as equipment purchases, rentals, and air time. Purchasing items from the iRunFar Store also supports our race coverage around the world.
-Bryon Powell, Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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Bryon,
Thanks for the amazing coverage, you and your team do an outstanding service for the running fans of the world. Keep up the good work.
Whatever happen to the WS100 prediction contest?
I now have the WS100 results, but won’t have time to post them until a few days after Hardrock.
Looks like I won’t be getting much work done tomorrow.
Stoked!!
@irunfar FYI – The hard rock preview link goes to western states preview.
Thanks! I’ve corrected it.
Just want to send a huge thank you for all the coverage you all do for all the races. We are glued to it..
Gerell
I’ll be at the Ouray AS all day tomorrow working on getting the crews and pacers good and liquored up before they meet their runners. Stop by for a shot of whiskey and a can of Schlitz.
Chris, will you be servicing the press corps, as well?
Absolutely; it’s the least I can do for the iRunFar crew!
Bryon-
Will you plan on ’round the clock live coverage for duration of the race?
You might consider trying to enroll in some sleep-deprivation studies concurrent with your race coverage. :)
OOJ, surely my practice with such acts would be a significant confounding factor.
What, the whiskey and Schlitz?
I was thinking more along the lines of my decade of routine sleep deprivation.
OOJ, I am on Board the sleep deprivation train. There’s tweets to be had. Plus, I need to be ready for my next 50k which will surely last all night
Bryon,
So who’s your money on to win male and female first place?
Bryon,
Thanks for the all of the hard work and awesome race coverage that you and your team keep pumping out!
Odds on Jared Campbell winning? He did finish Barkley this year.
The link to the irunfar twitter acount goes to the Lake Sonoma run….?
Thanks, Paul. It’s corrected.
Thanks for the coverage. Following from afar and so glad to have you out there covering this for us. Go Finkel!!
Is hardrock live working for anyone I don’t see any stats just the list of runners and pics. I am on a MAC have tried safari, firefox and chrome
No data has been posted on Hardrock Live yet.
they got a couple times up now
There’s now data from the Kamm Traverse aid station (mile 11.5) on Hardrock Live.
Theres an Iowan running!!!! GO FLATLANDER!!
Does anyone know the distances to each aid station?
The live results page doesn’t list mileage, and after a brief browse through the official website I’m not finding any information on segment distances.
In Runner’s Manual .pdf.
Thanks, Mike.
Silverton-Start
KT – 11.5
Chapman Gulch – 18.1
Telluride -29.8
Kroger -34.7
Governor Basin -37.9
Ouray -45.9
Engineer -53.9
Grouse Gulch -60.4
Burrows Park -69.7
Sherman -73.9
Pole Creek -82.8
Maggie Gulch -87.1
Cunningham Gulch -95.2
Silverton-Finish 100.5
Thanks again for the live coverage! So much for getting any work done today…
What shoes is Karl Meltzer running in? (at the pic at 10:55)
Look like the Hoka One One Bondi Speed to me. http://hokaoneone-na.com/bondi_b_speed-men.html
according to the site those are road shoes.. i thought hardrock was a trail/mountain run…. hmmm?
Yeah, plenty of folks wearing road shoes on the trails. While the road Hokas would offer less traction, the midsole provides plenty of rock protection. :-)
What’s up with the feed?
is Diana Finkel wearing Hokas as well ?
Yes.
Yes she is. Looks like Darcy is too.
If you/they are not already aware, there are problems with the live results online.
In the main sort, it’s ranking the leaders who have checked into Chapman, immediately below the last runner checked into KT, the prior AS.
When you click on an aid station:
It shows them in reverse order;
It only shows the ones who haven’t checked into the next AS
It highlights in yellow those who haven’t checked into the next AS yet. It’s supposed to do that. However, it has the ASs in last year’s order. So, for KT, everyone is highlighted in yellow, and says the next AS is Silverton.
They’re working on it. Hopefully, it’s already corrected. (I’m working off my phone.)
Did Hal go rogue between KT & Chapman?
He’s not shown on the live results feed, but there is a irunfar tweet photo of him leaving chapman in what looks like 4rd or 5th place.
Hal was with the lead pack in both Chapman and Telluride.
Sitting here in Ouray and it’s clouding up significantly. Gonna be a wet afternoon!
Byron (or anyone else),
What is Hal wearing on his head?
Nonsense.
Could Diana get top 5 or even top 3? I could see it going DJ, HK and then Diana… that would be awesome.
Be interesting to watch Ellie Greenwood and Diana Finkel race at a 100.
UTMB might be the best matchup, although Hardrock would be a close second. Do not underestimate Ellie’s ability to hike like a badass.
No underestimating anything with Ellie or Diana. Both are incredible runners.
Byron, dude, mad props…this is pretty exciting again(followed #WS100)…Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for the coverage from you, and your team.
Great Job, iRF team! yeeeehawwwww!
Go Joe Grant!
Joe and the gang are over 45 minutes behind Kyle Skaggs’s record setting pace. However, as much as 30 minutes of that might be explained by the added 2 miles.
I would say it is very reasonable to think that the 45 minutes could be made up. It would take a pretty incredible second half but it is doable.
Run smart and worry about the win first. Don’t even start thinking about records until you’re way ahead.
Dakota is now back in the lead at Governor Basin. Looking like a nice 3 horse race is shaping up with Dakota, Joe, and Hal.
Wow, Hal has got to be the most ripped ultra runner competing today. You could wash clothes on his abbs!
David, I was just going to say, Hal has could easily pass for someone at the CrossFit games, which are weirdly going on simultaneous to Hardrock. It must be the altitude tent ;)
Is that Brett Maune in the background between Anton and Frost? Is he pacing fellow Barkley finisher Jared Campbell?
Arrgg, I can’t get twitter while in the midle of the ocean. It appears as if the top 3 made a wrong turn??? If anyone see’s this could you please update?
The Hardrock website’s live results is messed up. Hal, Dakota, and Joe are still in the lead.
whoooooaaa, what just happened??
Up at night, 2 year old asleep and wife snoring next to me in Vermont….yet i can’t put the ipad down. Great race, great coverage irunfar team!.
what happened to jones did he drop, hes no longer in live results
This coverage is awesome. Thanks to the whole irunfar team. You guys are rocking it!
Hey Bryon and Crew. Beautiful coverage of the run so far. Followed all day at work and will continue into the night. A big hello from Tennessee to you guys in wonderful Colorado, Thank you and keep up the great work!!
Ease up. This is the Hardrock 100, not the Crying Game.
Your coverage of this is awesome, thank you! I’m literally sitting in bed with a beer following it
I thought Scott Jurek won both WS & HR
yep, you are right
Are there really only 18 women at HR? I hope the new lottery plan leads to a better M:F ratio.
I’d be interested to see what the ratio was in the hat for this year’s race. I imagine that it was simply that a lot more men threw their names in the hat than women.
I hope the new lottery (or any lottery system for that matter) doesn’t make any distinction between male and female when it comes to general admission/non-elite entry. If 400 men apply and 100 women apply, then hopefully a lottery would naturally grant a roughly 4:1 ratio. If application is basically even, then I’d hope the start list would be roughly even as well. It would suck if 400 men were fighting for 70 spots and only 100 women were fighting for the other 70 spots; that would be a biased system imo.
I agree, Adam. Same w Badwater this yr. At any rate … go hardrockers! Go iRF crew!
Live Ham Radio Comms via Hardrock site is pretty cool.
Looks like the live-results page is know completely down, lets hope they are able to fix it soon!
Hello, IRF team. Thank you for all of the updates and be sure to stay warm tonight. I’m going to bed now.
You think Hal can cover that last ~13 miles in under 3 hours to nip the course record? (Or is the course a bit longer than 100?) What are those last miles like? Mostly downhill or still quite a bit of hard climbing?
(Am grateful for the coverage!)
Bryon,
Thanks for your good work on this event. I am not sure how one’monetizes’ live coverage from a 102-ish mile ‘run’ … I guess I’ll know when you start serving up 30 second Ford ads before every update!
I can see it now: “This update from the Wasatch Front 100 brought to you by iRunFar and our friends at Abbott Labs. Feeling moody or do you have low energy? Does making it out of Brighton Lodge seem like an impossibility? You might have Low-T. Try AndroGel 1.62% …”
That said, it certainly strengthens my loyalty … Well done.
Hal Is probably gonna be 1st, so, from a crux walk (utmb ’11, 371st in 38h55) to a win w/ more ascent (11000m vs 9600m), i guess he loves that tent ?
altitude tent sales to double after this race