Saturday November 4 , 2006
Javelina Jundred 100 mile trail race
www.javelinajundred.com
Michelle places 1st female
and 4th overall with a time of 19:42:31
The Javelina Jundred 100 mile trail race is held at McDowell Mountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona. They select the weekend closest to Halloween that has a full moon through the night. Runners are encouraged to wear costumes. There are prizes for the best. The 101.6 mile course consists of 6 laps of 15.4 miles each on the Pemberton Loop trail that are run back and forth washing machine style. Odd numbered laps clockwise and even counter clockwise. The 7th is a partial lap that goes half way around and then cuts straight back - all a fast downhill - on the Tonto Tank Trail. |
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Michelle arriving at the aid station. (photo by Andy Kumeda) Split times for each of the 15.4 mile laps were recorded for each runner. Michelle had the 3rd fastest lap of anyone AND it was on her 6th and final full lap! The guy who had the 2nd fastest individual lap came in some 6 hours behind Michelle. Michelle finished almost 4 hours before the 2nd place female, 13th overall Kristen Farley at 23:35:49 |
![]() Her Halloween themed, rhinestone loaded, first place female trophy! |
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![]() Michelle's gold belt buckle award. The top 10 overall finishers get a gold buckle. Others who finish in under 24 hours silver buckles, while those who beat 30 hours get bronze. |
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COMMENTS
Michelle is a true champ in every sense of the
word! smiles galore. always positive. |
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![]() Photos by Will LaFolette |
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I really enjoyed having you at our race! You were always so happy and looked so graceful when you ran. You really kicked some ass! A lot of guys got CHICKED because of you! You should be very proud of yourself! You rock! I hope to see you at another race soon! Take care! Jimmy Wrublik - Race Director - Javelina Jundred www.javelinajundred.com | ||||||
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![]() Michelle running along with Nathan Haws |
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I just found out that my friend out here, came in…. first female…. in a 100 mile running race……AMAZIING!!!!!! Lynn Baran O....M....G!!! a hundred mile run?????!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even comprehend that distance ...... running!!! Geezis... that certainly IS AMAZING, indeed! And so wonderful. Tell her the entire East Coast is amazed!!! Response from Lynn's friend |
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![]() 2006 Ultra Queen of the desert |
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Michelle Barton was going strong all day and night, looking every bit the ultrarunning goddess as pictured on the October UltraRunning magazine cover. Plus (unless I was hallucinating at mile 91), AFTER she finished, she ran back out and paced a friend the last couple of miles to the finish. Another WOW! Scott Eilerts, Santa Fe, NM |
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Other unique Halloween based trophies |
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![]() Devil horned Michelle with ultra friend Gabor Kozinc during the 2005 Javelina Jundred. (This photo is used on the www.javelinajundred.com home page) |
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Michelle ran the Javelina
Jundred last year and dropped at mile 77.
This year was an amazingly different story. POST RACE INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE
What all did you do
different to prepare this year VS last for the Jundred? I wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. Two weeks after JJ100 2005, I won the San Diego AUA 12 hour national championship and broke the women's course record by running 69.3 miles on a 1-mile loop course. The first place man finished less that a mile ahead of me. I realized running in circles wasn't so bad because you always there are always people around and I love to feed off the energy of people, especially my friends. My daughter Sierra (age 5 at the time) and one of my best friends Andy Mathews from Florida crewed me for the race. It was a wonderful experience. I ended 2005 by running the Ridgecrest 50k. One of my goals for 2006 was to have a solid 50 miler. I ran the Avalon 50 miler on Catalina Island and I fell in love with the course of private rugged beaches, many buffalo sightings and ocean views for miles. I ran the race with my good friend Don LeRoy of Laguna Niguel and we finished strong in 9:17 with energy to spare. Next on the list was the Rocky Raccoon 100 miler in Texas. I finished in 27:07 with Andy Mathews, who paced me, but I had a horrible time at night staying warm. At mile 80-I ran to the car to put on my pajama's because my teeth were chattering and I was shivering and frozen. Here's the story www.turborunz.com. Two weeks after my first hundred mile finish at the 'Coon, I ran the Orange Curtain 100k. Dean Karnazes sent me a motivating email the night before the race something to the tune of "This is YOUR race", so I took his advice and I won first overall and beat all the guys in 10:24. After the OC100k I ran the Way Too Cool 50k, the Leona Divide 50 mile, Miwok 100k, PCT 50 miler (make it 44 miles, stopped when I started peeing blood), Bishop 60k (long story, but I made up my own race distance), Western States 3-day training (Fast Ash and I ran 100 miles in 4 days) My awesome fast friend Ashley Idema (AC 100 CHAMP) and I have made WS camp a 3-year tradition. June was the Holcomb Valley 33-miler (placed 1st in age). I paced the famous Winged God Gordy Ainsleigh at Western States, Tahoe Rim 50 miler, Bulldog 50k (1st overall female), Mt. Baldy Run To The Top, Endurance 50 marathon #19 with Dean Karnazes and James Bonnett in Surprise, Arizona. Two days after running with Dean, I won first overall female and 5th overall at the Saddleback Mountain Marathon in the Cleveland National Forest. http://www.sshs57.com/photos/100.htm and http://www.sshs57.com/photos/061007SaddlebackA.htm Almost forgot - I also wore my two MAGICAL bracelets to keep me motivated during the run.
Between being the best Mom to my sweet 6 year old daughter Sierra, training and coaching the Laguna Beach girls Cross Country team and working at Fleet Feet Sports in Laguna Niguel, CA, It's been a great year of fun!!
Specific
details.... Do you
think all the cross training with your biking and swimming helped a
little, a lot or irrelevant & just fun?
Any one
thing that made it a totally different experience this year?
Conditions
- temperature extremes?
Presume you would have done great in this race even if it got to 105
degrees like last year? How far
were you into before you were 100% confident you were going to make the
distance? What were
the bad physical and mental feelings/symptoms that happened in the past
that caused you to give up and drop, that just didn't show up this
time? Why? Forgot if
this race required weigh-ins and if so - how you varied through the run?
When did
you first know you had a chance to win 1st female?
Were you
ever worried in the least after that about any other of the runner
ladies? (I am thinking how you had to push, push at the Saddleback
Mountain Marathon because of the 2nd place girl.) How much
does a pacer and crew really help?
Do you
want to consider other pacers and crew in the future or are these guys
now your essential super heroes?
Could you
have done a 19:42 on your own?
Feeling exactly the same that you did, what do you think your time might have been without a crew or pacer? I am confident my time would have been sub-22, but you never can really predict. Could you
have done a 19:42 with Gordy or any of your other running friends as
your pacer? Why keep
pushing so hard once you know 1st place was totally yours? I cannot
imagine just because it felt good???
How does
it feel to know with 100% confidence that you are the healthiest
Malewicki descendant in the past 2000 years?
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SOME OF THE 2006 COSTUMES | ||||||
![]() Paul Grimm's great Grim(m) Reaper won first place for best costume. Paul finished 26th overall in 25:43. |
![]() The Grim(m) Reaper had fun chasing all the healthy ladies! |
![]() The angel - Kathleen Wheeler |
![]() Wonder woman Xy Weiss, with race Director Jimmy Wrublick and Catra Corbett |
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INTERVIEW WITH ANDY KUMEDA - WHO CREWED FOR MICHELLE
You know Michelle pretty
good and know she had trouble at her first few attempts to run 100 miles.
When during this race did you feel she was going to make the distance?
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![]() The Arizona desert |
Sunrise over the desert |