2021 Events

To say the least 2020 has been a probably the weirdest year in the lives of many. With pandemic all around most of the races got postponed or cancelled, luckily few races got rolled over to 2021 making planning for 2021 pretty straight forward. if they happen, then this is my tentative plan for a hopefully a "normal" year.

Plans for 2021 Racing 

Jan/Feb:  BART runs with Avinash, Kiran, Kaushik(some with Baban) Completed on Apr 23rd 2021

Mar:        MUC 50M (with Shades) : (Completed on Mar 20th 13hrs)

May:       Miwok/QS 100k: Cancelled due to lack of permits

Jun :        Scout Mountain 100: Race is ON , DNF 75mi

Jul:          Kings canyon 1 day run with Bipul

Jul 29th:  Ouray 100 : Race is ON,  DNF mile 35

Oct 9th:         RD Ruth Anderson Ultras : ON

Oct 23rd: QS100K

Dec:        CIM 2021

Fatass: Marin 100M Endurance Run

Strava event: here 

Pics: here

Sep 28th, 2020

Rodeo Beach, Mill Valley, CA

Organized a Fatass event with Naresh and friends. mostly running Marin headlands trails. We got incredible support from Naresh as the backbone of operations, CJ Paaji, Tharuna helped through the night. Kiran helped us with remote tracking. Many runners pitched in and helped us after their run as well. Kaushik helped with car logistics, dropping supplies etc inspire of running himself.

Got to witness finishes of 2 incredible runners Kaushik and Avinash, both finished their 1st 100M and that too in Fatass style. Looking forward to more adventures from them.

Baban showed fantastic perseverance and continued to fight, but things didn't turnaround for him so decided to fight for 100 another day. He got 69 miles.

Results

100m in 36:40
Kaushik
Avinash
Anil

100k
Mubarak
Niraj
Baban(70)
Hima(75)

50m
Michelle
Roberto
Bharathi
Suresh
Niloy

50k
Naresh
Anand

Congrats all you folks, that was a tough day on a tiugh course. Hope you had fun.

More updates to follow.

Sierra Fastpacking Ideas

Finally myself and friends did Rae lakes loop recently. This has left a hunger for more Sierra Adventures.  Listing few loops and point to point courses which can be done with a overnight fastpacking trip, if one is tad aggressive in hiking and ultralight on pack.

Some Sierra Fastpacking ideas

1. High Sierra Trail 2 days From SEKI to Whitney Portal

Total distance: 72 miles

Gain: about 13Kft climb

2. In SEKI, Big Seki Loop somes to mind. Details are very well captured here:

a) Big Seki North: About 80 miles (17,200 ft) from Roads End in Kings Canyon

Strava Route

Profile of first 25miles of SHR

Our Strava Route is similar to Leor's https://www.strava.com/activities/355382812

b) Big Seki South: About 60 miles from Roads end in Kings Canyon

3. Evolution Loop: 

Trail Head: South Campground near Bishop

About 55 miles

4. Sonora Pass to Echo Lake
Trail Info

Ranger Info: need to call BridgePort Ranger District for permits

5. High Sierra Camps Loops: Trail is captured here

This is a classic backpacking route, which has pre made tent camps along the way. We plan to do in 1 day in about 18 hours. Should be a good fun day, I plan to capture course with gopro as well

6. Rae Lakes Loop: Trail details here

We did this as a single run in 2020 and 2021.

7. Onion Valley to South Lake near Bishop

Video here

12th Quicksilver Fatass 50K

Quicksilver 50k/100k has become a yearly tradition for me since 2004 when I first ran with Rajeev Patel and met lot of lifelong friends, Chihping, Mylinh, Joe, Yuki, Carol, Jim Magill Chuck Wilson to name a few.

Since this year's event got cancelled, we(along with friend Baban) decided to run the 50K fatass on QS day and reminisce all the fun experiences of past few years. We were lucky to meet another veteran Lina Mccain/Peter on the course and share few miles with them. We had a great time running those trails, heat did add a nice QS flavor towards the end and we did get a rattler siting rattling at us.(https://tinyurl.com/yc38vrvg
) I must say I missed the annual QS running festival.

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank QRC in putting this fantastic event over past 30+ years. I look forward to running official event in Oct. Stay safe folks. (https://www.strava.com/activities/3427176273)

 — at Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.

More Pictures here:

Virtual Sierra Azul Fatass 50k

Details:
https://www.strava.com/clubs/490136/group_events/695985?new=true