Moab 240

It was that time again. The Moab 240, a 240 mile running race, came through and we were the first aid station at the 29.2 mile mark. Got to run a marathon to get here. 257 runners this year. As I recall the registration fee is about $1,700 per runner. Killian Korth won and just prior to his finishing he was 32 miles ahead of the second place runner. Rebecca Rick won the women's and finished 4th overall. Rebecca left here in 14th place and moved up consistently. David Goggins left here in 18th place and finished 22nd. The race started in Moab at noon Friday and the last finishers came in at 9am on Wednesday. It rained almost the whole time for six days. Lot of trenchfoot among the racers. Still these miracuous creatures, right at 150 of the roughly 250 finished. It's amazing.

I'm not sure I remember how many of these we've hosted but I do remember having to do at least one or two rescues each year. The last runners came through at 12:30am Saturday morning and kept going. The aid station closed at the cut off 2:am and everyone was accounted for and on their way to the next aid station and continuation of the race. I went over and said good night to everyone pretty happy I didn't have to do a rescue this year.

At 5:am in a rain downpour there was a knock on my bedroom door. Teresa said "Tom, you're up." I thought that's impossible. Everyone left here just fine. I walked out and talked to Thor, the female medic. She said there were three runners that didn't make it to the next aid station. They were four and a half miles down Lockhart Basin. I explained I don't have anything that can get more than a mile or so down Lockhart and maybe not to the moutb of Lockhart in this driving rain. She thought it might be that they are at the mouth of the road and not down it so Jax, one of the volunteers, Greg I think, and I headed out into the storm. Was tought to see and I wasn't always sure we were on the road as there was so much rain but a half hour or so later we made it to the start of Lockhart where a ham radio operator had the runners sheltered in a tent. The operator said he could take one of them so we took the other two and made it back at 7am.