Leadville Trail 100 Mile Endurance Run (28th)
Leadville, CO, USA
Saturday, August 21 into Sunday, August 22
Distance: 100 mi. (50 miles out and back), extremely high altitude (the race tops out at 12,600 feet/3843m with constant climbing and descending), difficult terrain
Finishers: 363 (up from 275 last year); 642 starters. 99 runners finished in under 25 hours, recieving the El Plato Grande belt buckle.
Course Records: Men, 15:42:59, Matt Carpenter, 2005; Women, 18:06:24, Ann Trason (USA), 1994

NOTE: In this brutal trail race, men's winner Duncan Callahan finished first for the second time in three years. Two-time champion Anton Krupicka dropped out. According to Ultrarunning.com, Krupicka "led the race from the beginning and achieved a lead of more than an hour at mile 70 but, began to experience medical problems and dropped. It was the second consecutive year that Krupicka, who won here in 2007 and 2008, dropped for medical reasons while leading." Womens winner Elizabeth Howard won by over an hour.

MEN  -
  1 Duncan Callahan, 27, GUNNISON, CO          17:43:25
  2 Zeke Tiernan, 34, CARBONDALE, CO           18:25:31 
  3 Dylan Bowman, 24, ASPEN, CO                18:36:16 
  4 Neal Gorman, 33, WASHINGTON DC             18:47:55 
  5 Jeff Beuche, 35, BOULDER, CO M3            18:58:37 
  6 Tim Waggoner, 38, GOLDEN, CO M3            19:19:36 
  7 Harry Harcrow, 43, LARKSPUR, CO            19:23:56
  8 Jason Koop, 31, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO       19:40:12
  9 Rod Bien, 38, BEND, OR                     19:46:04 
 10 W. Jared Scott, 39, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO  19:47:49 
 75 Charles Cowan, 58 LAKE PLACID NY           24:24:54
173 Steve Sweeney, 55 ALBANY NY                27:48:41
    Anton Krupicka, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO       DNF

WOMEN -
 1 Elizabeth Howard, 38, SAN ANTONIO, TX      21:19:48 
 2 Stephanie Jones, 40, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO  22:35:06
 3 Ashley Arnold, 23, CARBONDALE, CO          23:08:17 
 4 Sus Brozik, 43, ALBUQUERQUE, NM            23:23:50 
 5 Andrea Metz, 24, WAUSAU, WI                23:34:36 
 6 Leila Degrave, 32, EVERGREEN, CO           24:36:21 
 7 Laurie Nakauchi-Hawn, 40, ARVADA, CO       24:58:08 
 8 Katherine Dowson, 44, DRIGGS, ID           25:22:19
 9 Jeanne Mccurnin, 54, MASON CITY, IA        25:33:27 
10 Megan Morrissey, 41, EAGLE, CO             25:45:01