American River 50

• Date: April 4, 2009 (30th)
• Entry fee: see web site
  Greg Soderlund, RD
  2217 Ryedale Lane
  Sacramento, CA 95835-2185
  916-387-8796(phone/fax)
• Limit: 500 ; no waiting list; no transfers or rollovers
• Location: Sacramento, CA
• Cutoff: 13 hours (6:00AM - 7:00PM) with intermediate cutoffs
• Course records:

  Male	Female
  5:54:01 ('84) Jim Howard, 18-29	6:23:21 ('87) Ann Trason, 18-29
  5:33:21 ('94) Tom Johnson, 30-34	6:09:08 ('93) Ann Trason, 30-34
  5:44:43 ('99) Carl Andersen, 35-39	6:51:05 ('99) Luanne Park, 35-39
  6:03:45 ('90) Jussi Hamalainen, 40-44	7:07:43 ('05) Beverley Anderson-Abbs, 40-44
  6:01:25 ('93) Jussi Hamalainen, 45-49	8:02:05 ('03) Celeste Langan, 45-49
  6:24:34 ('97) Jussi Hamalainen, 50-54	8:33:12 ('97) Edith Bogenhuber, 50-54
  7:13:57 ('96) Alfred Bogenhuber, 55-59	8:38:32 ('03) Nancy March, 55-59
  7:33:39 ('97) Gard Leighton, 60-69	9:45:57 ('03) Eldrith Gosney, 60-69
  8:38:18 ('98) Ray Piva, 70+	10:12:44 ('93) Helen Klein, 70+

• Aid stations: 10
• Surface: 30 miles paved bike path/road; 20 miles dirt road/trails
• Elevations:

  Climb: 3,474'

  Descent: 2,139'

  High: 1,424'

  Low: 20'

  Start: 20'

  Finish: 1,355'

• History:

  	Starters	Finishers	Percent
  1980	200		%
  1993	422	408	97%
  1994	495	468	95%
  1995	508	470	93%
  April 6, 1996	541	486	90%
  April 5, 1997	525	496	94%
  April 4, 1998	518	500	97%
  April 10, 1999	558	549	98%
  April 1, 2000	483	423	88%
  April 7, 2001	434	396	91%
  April 6, 2002	459	421	92%
  April 5, 2003	451	433	96%
  April 3, 2004	512	461	90%
  April 2, 2005	481	440	91%
  April 1, 2006	477	445	93%
  April 14, 2007	496	479	97%
  April 5, 2008	491	467	95%
  April 4, 2009			%

For more info: web site / 2008 entrants / All Time Finishers / map (JPEG) / map (PDF) / photos(2004, by Don Lundell) / profile / report(s) / results: '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 / my splits
(data from UltraRunning, Don Lundell, Gary Wang, Greg Soderlund, James Raia, Jamin Martinez, John Medinger, Lisa Demoney, Tom Joseph, Tony Lafferty & Will Roxburgh)

"http://www.Run100s.com/ar.htm" (updated: 5/13/08) StanJ@Run100s.com