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Title:Paleozoic Trail Runs - Cambrian Fall
Date:Saturday November 11th, 2017
Author:Bill Thom
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Paleozoic Trail Runs
Cambrian Fall

[Logo: Paleozoic Trail Runs]
5th Annual Fall-Season Paleozoic 50-Km and 25-Km
Trail Runs!

Our fall celebration of "going long" made use of the Sag Valley trails of Palos Park. We've charted this specific racecourse six times now... the others being Carboniferous Spring in 2017, Silurian Fall in 2016, Ordovician Spring in 2015, Cambrian Spring in 2014, and Carboniferous Fall in 2013. This was the tenth running of our biannual race, which has always offered the event distances of 50 kilometers and 25 kilometers.

Saturday November 11, race-day conditions: mean temperature of 33°F, low temperature of 26°F, high temperature of 39°F, South winds, with speeds that ranged from 8 mph to 15 mph, with maximum gust speeds of 20 mph, sunrise 6:35 am, sunset 4:35 pm. Historically, November 11th has averages: high temperature of 51° F, low temperature of 37° F.

Weather-wise this was a cold, overcast day... ideal for fast fall racing. The racecourse was dry with noticeable improvements on the Yellow Trail, where erosion-prone stretches were regraded, with drainage guttering reinforcements near the Swallow Cliff limestone stairs.

Volunteers... Ian Stevens, Jeni Goodwin, Debi Haas, Jenna Bahaj, Jim Arnold, Tom Kohler, Adam Zamora reported early-morning at Palos Park Woods-North, Grove #1 for aid station set up and to greet runners at the 7:30 am check-in / packet pick up.

Our 50-Km event was underway at 8:32 am, followed by our 25-Km, which started one hour later at 9:35 am. A quarter-mile grassy parade loop circled runners past cheering spectators, then off they raced the varying Sag Valley Trail system of unpaved paths.

An unmanned aid station was set trail-side at approximately 4.4-miles outbound. Full-service fare, staffed by Tom and Adam (morning) and Jason (afternoon) near the terminus of the Green Trail at Will-Cook Road, served as our turnaround aid station. Paleo-Camb 50-Km runners completed two full laps of our out-n-back racecourse, while Paleo-Camb 25-Km runners raced a one-lap tour.

At the finish, awaiting all runners... customized finisher-medals, vegetarian cream-of-broccoli soup and white chicken chili, along with a roofed-shelter for relaxing and replenishing. Top overall and masters runners earned very special awards. Top-three age division runners collected special pint-glass awards. First-time ultramarathon finishers earned "My First Ultra" pint-glass awards. Five-time Paleozoic finishers collected special zipper-draw-string shoe bags!
Congratulations to our swift runners of Paleozoic Trail Runs - Cambrian Fall!
  • Paleo-Camb 50-Km...
    Top Male Open: Reese Borlin, 17 of Washington - 3:41:39.8 * Only ~4:10 off south-course record!
    Top Female Open: Colleen Montgomery, 43 of Highland Park - 5:06:37.1
    Top Male Masters: David Curtin, 43 of Munster, IN - 4:08:50.6 * Past masters champion!
    Top Female Masters: Marta Borkowska, 40 of Chicago - 5:30:55.6
  • Paleo-Camb 25-Km...
    Top Male Open: Elias Theodosis, 28 of Evanston - 1:43:36.8 * Past runner-up!
    Top Female Open: Laura Lackner, 40 of Evanston - 2:06:46.9 * Defending champion!
    Top Male Masters: Brian O'Donnell, 40 of Tinley Park - 2:01:08.3 * Past open champion!
    Top Female Masters: Karen Grabowski, 42 of Park Ridge - 2:18:27.8
Timing, webcasting, and finish-line scoring... all managed by us, through our RunRace website at RunRace. Check out Results and our Webcast through the links...
Results: Results on RunRace
Webcast: Webcast with Checkpoint Splits
Let's give a rousing "shout out" to our race volunteers, many of which are accomplished runners, all of whom performed "beyond the call!"
  • Palos Park Woods-North Aid Station: Captain, Jeni Goodwin, Debi Haas, Jenna Bahaj, Jim Arnold, Ian Stevens.
  • Satellite Green Aid Station: Tom Kohler, Adam Zamora, Jason Dorgan (who finished the 25-Km before serving as AS vol).
  • Keepers of finish-line paper trail: Jeni Goodwin, Debi Haas, Jim Arnold.
  • Supplies delivery, aid station shuttling: Michelle Thom.
  • Post-race soup overseer: Bill Thom.
  • Spillover remote parking shuttling: Michelle Thom.
  • Paleozoic brewmasters of Bourbon-barrel-aged Porter, and Kölsch: Tom Kohler, Adam Zamora.
  • Course marshaling: Special thanks to Racine-Traci and members of Flatlander Ultrarunners who toured the racecourse, cheering-on all runners.
  • Finish-line Cowbell: Jim Arnold.
  • Course marking / Course cleanup: Bill Thom.
Check out our gallery of photos below, captured mostly through our video-cam that recorded from 10:37 am -to- 2:02 pm at our primary aid station, Palos Park Woods-North. These photos have been optimized for display on the internet... feel free to copy for your personal use -and/or- link this "Run Report" with your social networks.

Congratulations to all runners of Paleozoic Trail Runs... summoned by the primordial instinct to go-long, who toed-the-line and answered-the-call, in our fall version - Cambrian Fall!

Links & Recaps as Generously Provided by Participants of
Paleozoic Trail Runs - Cambrian Fall!
[no reports submitted to date... please send your race contributions to the author]
Website:
RunRace.net/paleozoic/  Go there or Go there in new browser
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50-Km Runners Complete their First Lap
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