Badwater Update

The Badwater Ultramarathon is underway. It's kind of strange tracking a running race that lasts more than one day. Badwater is providing a webcast of the runners' splits. The two leaders finished mile 90 at the same time (16:32:00). One is Ferg Hawke who took second last year (just about 8 minutes behind Dean Karnazes). The other is a newcomer to Badwater, Scott Jurek. However, he's a pretty famous ultramarathoner. He has won The Western States Endurance Run for 7 consecutive times. He also holds the course record of this 100-mile race with a time of 15:36:27.

Pamela Reed is currently in fifth place overall at mile 90 with a time of 18:55:00. She's way ahead of her nearest woman competitor, Monica Scholz, who beat her last year by almost 2hrs. At mile 72, Reed had an almost 3.5 hr lead (14:08 to 17:34).

Below lists the splits of the top 5 runners along with their total and recent paces. This is based on the Badwater Webcast splits page. The recent paces are the paces from the last leg. For example the pace for the 25 miles from mile 17 to mile 42.

I've also included splits for Frank McKinney who was profiled by the Sun-Sentinel about how he became a Badwater ultramarathoner.

Everybody has slowed down quite a bit. This will likely continue as they hit the mountains.

Runner	Mi	Time	Total Pace	Recent Pace
Jurek	17	2:25:00	08:31	08:31
Jurek	42	6:25:00	09:10	09:36
Jurek	72	12:32:00	10:26	12:14
Jurek	90	16:32:00	11:01	13:20
Hawke	17	2:28:00	08:42	08:42
Hawke	42	6:16:00	08:57	09:07
Hawke	72	12:33:00	10:27	12:34
Hawke	90	16:32:00	11:01	13:16
Sweeney	17	2:52:00	10:07	10:07
Sweeney	42	7:17:00	10:24	10:36
Sweeney	72	14:05:00	11:44	13:36
Sweeney	90	17:02:00	11:21	09:50
Engle	17	2:52:00	10:07	10:07
Engle	42	7:17:00	10:24	10:36
Engle	72	14:05:00	11:44	13:36
Engle	90	18:32:00	12:21	14:50
Reed	17	2:42:00	09:31	09:31
Reed	42	7:19:00	10:27	11:04
Reed	72	14:08:00	11:46	13:38
Reed	90	18:55:00	12:36	15:56
McKinney	17	3:29:00	12:17	12:17
McKinney	42	9:05:00	12:58	13:26