CTR 2012 Results

[Stefan_G]

Please post to this thread to update/correct your finish times! I will update this list as we go and post final results to the CTR webpage once all have finished.
* = unverified, possibly totally inaccurate.  Please email or post your time here so I can correct errors.

CTR 2012 Group Start
3d23h38m – Jefe Branham (New Course Record!!!)
4d02h25m – Ethan Passant
4d02h39m – Jesse Jakomait
4d19h44m – Max Nuttelman
4d22h03m – Matt Schiff, Dan Miller-Lionberg
*5d02h49m – Chris Miller
5d07h20m – Fred Hankinson
5d10h15m – Kurt Sandiforth
*5d10h20m – Cat Morrison
*5d11h39m – Joseph Shults
5d14h41m – George Lapierre, Travis Wildeboer
5d19h24m – Les Handy
6d05h07m – Alan Goldsmith
6d08h35m – Jeffrey Rank
*6d08h55m – Becky Sears
6d09h04m – Tim James
*6d09h18m – Kurt Ireland
6d14h35m – Ian Altman, Anthony Arena
6d16h45m – Paul Bosworth
7d04h46m – Toby Gadd
7d13h50m - Dominic Lauzier
*7d14h41m – Calvin Davenport
8d02h43m - Tom Kavanaugh, John Harness
8d09h20m - Jeremy Plum
9d06h24m - Mark Caminiti
9d14h00m - Dave Kirk
10d11h10m - Jason Osborne

CTR 2012 ITT, Den to Dgo
4d20h50m – David Picket-Heaps
4d21h00m  - David Wilson
5d16h51m - Kurt Refsnider
*6d14h13m – Kevin Camp
8d08h15m – Glen Meader, Wayne Keith
8d10h52m – Mark Allen
*8d??     - Chad Parker
*9d00h55m – Curtis Burge (Rode the ’07-’08 course)
*9d05h03m - Tom Karpeichik
*9d08h56m – Simon Suster

CTR 2012 ITT, Dgo to Den
7d10h38m - Dan Hickstein


Course Deviation
6d16h45m - Chris Neumann.  Chris was suffering from serious sleep deprivation hallucinations/delusions, and did not ride the last 1 mile of trail!  He wrote up an excellent post about his experiences that everyone should read here.

[Laps]

Stefan, thanks for putting together a great race!!  Travis Wildeboer and I finished together, but I don't see him on there.  Also, how do we return the spot trackers? 

Thanks again, 

George Lapierre

[spoke537]

Stafan,

My time looks right.  I finished initially at 0049 on Sunday by coming down the road on the final stretch but realized my mistake and went back and rode the final piece of singletrack to make it official so I'm happy with the time listed.

Thanks for tracking this incredible race!
Les Handy

[markphx]

Stefan,

My time looks correct. My name is listed as Allen Morgan. My friend Josiah Morgan and I (Mark Allen) shared a SPOT tracker, hence our two last names were used on the trackleaders website. I was able to complete the entire CTR route. Josiah completed most of the CTR route, but hitched from Wellington Lake Rd to Jefferson Lake Rd and also bypassed the section from the Goldhill Trailhead to Copper Mountain (by taking the bike path through Frisco).

Thanks for organizing this event. Had the privilege of meeting some great people and experiencing some challenging terrain and awesome scenery.


Mark

[omurphy]

Ha, just saw this bit about Christoph Sauser (former World XC and Marathon world champion) over on cyclingnews.com. He is training in Breck for the upcoming Leadville 100.

Riding here in Breckenridge is flip'n awesome! My favorite is the Colorado trail. One day, when I am big, I will do the whole thing, all the way from Denver to Durango. More and less 750km sweet singletrack!

You've been warned -- best start training now!

Congrats to all the CTR finishers!

[Buttermilk]

hey Stefan,

Jeremy Plum just finished up the beast at 3:20 today 8/6. I did not have a spot but tracked with gps.

thanks for your work on this epic race. It was brutally beautiful.

[tkavanau]

Hey Stefan, this is Tom Kavanaugh verifying that my time is correct.  Also, John Harness finished with me at the same time.  His spot ran out of batteries the day before we finished.  Great job to everyone!

[Done]

Yep, the time that you posted for me is correct. Thanks Stefan!

[krefs]

"More and less 750km sweet singletrack!"

He might be disappointed when he sees all the hike-a-bike!

Big congrats to everyone that started, and an even bigger congrats to everyone that FINISHED! And Mark Caminiti, I don't know how you suffer through these things one after another while dealing with so many bike and body malfunctions! I think you must hold some sort of record for the most hours of serious suffering in the past few years of these bikepacking races. Impressive ride, yet again!

[simonns]

That finish time looks good for me. Thanks Stefan!

-Simon

[AussieCattleDog]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for an incredible, brutal experience.

I had question marks on my time so I wanted to clarify:

I left Waterton Canyon at 6:30AM Tuesday
I arrived in Durango at 3:20AM Sunday

Ride time: 4 Days, 20 hours, 50 minutes

Hell yeah! See you next year.

Dave P-H

[DanHickstein]

Hi Stefan,

My time is correct for this year, but I think that I may have cheated last year. Has the Durango trailhead always been the lower one? Last year, I finished at the upper trailhead (the one right where the road makes a big switchback and heads up towards the campground). Someone offered me a beer and there were a few other people waiting for CTR racers at the upper trailhead, so it seemed like a good place to finish. However, this year, when I started in Durango, it sure seemed like I skipped the last 1.2 miles of trail in 2011. It was good to have the extra motivation to make sure that I finished this year .

[Stefan_G]

Hi Stefan,

My time is correct for this year, but I think that I may have cheated last year. Has the Durango trailhead always been the lower one? Last year, I finished at the upper trailhead (the one right where the road makes a big switchback and heads up towards the campground). Someone offered me a beer and there were a few other people waiting for CTR racers at the upper trailhead, so it seemed like a good place to finish. However, this year, when I started in Durango, it sure seemed like I skipped the last 1.2 miles of trail in 2011. It was good to have the extra motivation to make sure that I finished this year .

D'oh!!  Yep, the lower trail head has always been there.  A whole extra mile of casual ST!  Unfortunately, that is an easy mistake to make as it isn't really signed that well.  I did the same thing in 2006, prior to the first CTR, but now with the GPS track...

Thanks a ton for bringing this up!  Hopefully a few others who finished there will hop on board too.  It's certainly a small course deviation, but enough of one to motivate you to finish this year, eh?

[Kurtis]

Feels like from the effort I put in it should be less but none the less, That time looks legit. It was a beautiful ride and fantastic expierience. The previous AZTR750 and TD on the legs made it a whole different kinda pig rodeo. Though just like every finished ride. I wish I was back out there!
 Kurt Sandiforth     

[timon]

Yes that looks about right. Tks Stefan. Tim James

[surfsled]

Stefan
My time looks correct.
I finished with a pack of 3 ITT that left on Sat.
they caught me on the near the finish.. I thought they started in the group on Monday.. they didn't tell me that they were
ITT until after i finished. Needless to say they gave me the adrenline I needed to "race" to the finish.

Jeffrey Rank

[krefs]

I've got one more "ITT" finish to add to the list, even though I slept almost 8 hours every night after the first one so I could see everything during daylight hours! I made it to Durango last evening for a total time on trail of 5:16:51. As I rolled into town, a huge fireworks display kicked off over the college. I thought it was a pretty awesome welcome, but then someone told me it was for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge kickoff party. Then I learned that they changed the route for the first stage of the race because some of the climbing was "too steep." Hmm...I'm sure those guys would think differently if any of them tried to tackle the CT!

Almost all the through-hikers that I stopped and chatted with were amazed by Jefe's performance. He's truly a legend on the trail, though no one knows his name. I also encountered possibly the world's most angry hiker, out of water 8 miles shy of the next stream out on the ridge north of Indian Trail Ridge. He went on a 5-minute rant, I gave him half my remaining water, and hopefully he learned that he will find no warning signs along the trail before the long dry sections like he expected there would be.

Stefan, thanks for the CT stoke. I'm glad I finally got around to riding the whole thing. It was even more spectacular than I imagined in the San Juans.

[SteveW]

Nice one, Kurt. Alaska for you next?

[krefs]

Nice one, Kurt. Alaska for you next?

Nah, I'm done racing for the year. My legs are toast. Time for some mellow bikepacking and recon for some future trips around the southwest.