Lord Hill 50k in the bag

When I first moved to WA my second ever 50k run was Lord Hill in Snohomish. I did it the year after again, amazed by the park's beauty, and the fact that there are so many familiar faces out there. When we moved back I heard from Tim that the run was cancelled in 09 and 10 as well since he was very busy with work and family, so I took over as RD, using most of his general course design, shortening it a bit to 10 Miles exact per loop. Permit processes always take much longer the first year around but it got done finally and we were all set for the first 4thDimensionRacing trail run since the three Ron Herzog 50k's we put on a couple of years ago.
After running on saturday all around the city on pavement for about 10 miles and having a bit too many beers i was not particularly looking forward to markin the course at 2AM, but after packing and finally leaving thats where it came out to be. However the run was great, it was nice being out there at night, sometimes a bit spooky with the deer showing up from nowhere, but I got used to that.
The day turned out to be great, the race was sold out, people enjoyed the course (sorry for those that had some troubles with the course markings, my promise for any races forward is that we will have trail arrows, probably better and easier for everyone) and the aid stations, and everyone enjoyed the 10 extra large pizzas Alfy's pizzeria sponsored, and the all organic fruit and the vegetable soup sponsored by Nature's Last Stand. Plus a volunteer made lots of brownies and we had Toblerone Chocolates out there, so people did not get hungry.
We had a ton of fun putting this on and learned a few things in the process we will have to change for next year, but overall this was a great day.

Photos can be found at: www.4thDimensionRacing.com/forum
And results are posted at: www.4thDimensionRacing.com/results









Keith Wood, 81 Years old, ran 20Miles, what a stud!