Scot's Ultra Centric Race - November 2008

Our brother-in-law Scot was here mid-November to participate in an Ultra-Centric Experience. His goal was to run for 24 hours straight. What is The Ultra Centric Experience?

Taken from the Ultra Centric website:
The Ultra Centric Experience is a unique combination of great athletes, good crews, supportive spectators, and unmatched volunteers. The Ultra Centric is an interactive medium for the worlds finest endurance athletes to showcase the results of successful training, and the ordinary athlete to introduce themselves to the possibilities. Included in the festivities are twelve hours of professionally produced live music, a Sponsors Expo, and great food buffets. All activities are included with the participants entry, and spectators pass.

Are the events Officially Sanctioned?
All events The Ultra Centric Experience provides are officially Sanctioned, by their prospective governing bodies. The Running Events, and Mountain Bike Events are held on two entirely separate certified courses, two independent timing systems, and separate aid stations. The Mountain Bike Events are Sanctioned by U.S.A. Cycling. The Running events are Sanctioned by U.S.A. Track & Field, all event run courses are Certified. All events are professionally timed


Here is Scot on the course. As is often the case in Texas, Friday the day before the race was an awesome weather day. By Saturday morning, temperatures had dropped into the 30's and there were wind gusts up to 25 MPH. Despite a brief time off the course to warm up late Saturday evening, Scot did a tremendous job in the race and came in 15th overall in the 24 hour race. He ran 92.72 miles in that 24 hours. Isn't that incredible????

Mike, Jason, Ryan, Megan and myself were to see Scot running late Saturday afternoon at the race in McKinney. There were a lot of supporters for all the runners. There were several events happening simultaneously including 6/12/24/48 hour runs plus a mountain bike race also.

We didn't get pictures, but there was a food tent and a guy was cooking fabulous meals. Since we were spectators and supporters of a runner, we were invited to eat some dinner. They served grilled tortillas, taco meat, fajita meat, onions & peppers, peach cobbler, and all the fixings.