The Susitna 100 standings were updated regularly during the race. Now they are ordered by finish with the winners of each division highlighted. Pete Basinger won the overall. I raced with him in the 2003 Fireweed 400. He was ahead of me for the first half but I caught him soon after the turn around in Valdez. We were back in forth in Keystone Canyon. I passed him one last time as we started up Thompson Pass. His crew of 2 young women kept leap frogging ahead and flirting with me. It kept me pushing hard because I figured Pete wasn’t far behind. It took several hours before I didn’t see them anymore. Pete finished 33 minutes behind me.
Jill finished in 20 hours and 50 minutes to be the 3rd woman finisher. She’s already written 3 posts about the experience and plans to write more. First post, 2nd post and 3rd post.
Since John Stamstad was entered, I assumed he would be on a bike. Instead he was on foot. He finished 2nd in the foot division. Jill’s boyfriend Geoff won and set a new course record. It’s pretty amazing because 2 weeks before he was sure he had a stress fracture in his foot and didn’t think he’d even be able to do the race. I guess it just forced him to be well rested for the race.
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