Adventures in Onionism

As I mentioned in my previous post, I ran the 2023 Black Canyon 100K/60K double in February. Aravaipa doesn't have a webpage posting results for other doublers, so I figured I'd do the math myself. I copied the Ultrasignup results into spreadsheets and compared them. To my surprise, only 9 people finished the double (compared to 682 100K finishers and 323 60K finishers). I didn't check if anyone attempted to double but DNF'd both or either. Here are the combined results in order of total finish time:   Ignore the 01jan1960 part--that's just an artifact of the programming. Ratio is the sum of the two Ultrasignup ranks (the winner's time divided by your time), and place is the sum of placements. I was 7th place out of 9. Nothing spectacularly interesting seems to have happened across the two days, other than the second place guy day one finishing fourth day two and thus third overall. Basically I'd say people were consistent. That goes to a point I was thinkin...

It's been almost two months now, but I stopped in Phoenix on my way home from DC in February and ran the Black Canyon double. The Black Canyon 100K has become a competitive early season race (it's a Western States Golden Ticket race). It's a net downhill course, and it seems like a relatively reliable way to get decent race weather in February, since it's at lower elevations not too far north of Phoenix. I flew to Phoenix after work on Friday the 17th. I am a cheapskate and airfare and race entry fees were already expensive enough, so I rented a Prius so I could crash in the back and not pay for a hotel room. Due to the battery configuration in a Prius, the rear seats fold down perfectly flat. This seems more common in SUVs, but SUVs are bad . For fellow hikers who don't want to kill pedestrians, here's a good discussion of other vehicles that may fit the fold-flat-seats bill. You can use Turo to rent the exact model of car you're looking for. Another perk ...