2011 Waldo 100K Registration

Registration for the 10th Waldo 100K, which will be held on August 20, 2011 at Willamette Pass in Oregon, will open at 8am on March 1.  Since the readers of this blog seemed to be split on registration preference there will be two options this year: old school print out and mail-in entry, or online …

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Why finish line cutoffs?

Finish line cutoffs are something I’ve never understood.  Most races have them, including Western States at 30 hours (11:00am).  At Waldo this past weekend we had 98 runners finish before 9pm to earn their Sporthill Waldo finisher hat.  A record number.  The choice this year for most people was a black rain hat, a white …

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2010 Waldo 100K Brief Recap

The 2010 Where’s Waldo 100k, the first race in the 2010-2011 Montrail Ultra Cup, had a record number of finishers.  We had 107 finishers out of 123 starters which was a record in terms of total finishers and percentage (87%).  Here are the top five male and female finishers. Tim Olson, 26, 9:25:04 Dan Olmstead, …

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2010 Live Waldo Updates

This is Alan Abbs, a.k.a. White Trash. I’ll be doing updates on this page all day.  Refresh the page to get the latest info and send me comments if you have specific questions about runners and I’ll do my best to answer them. Or check the tweets on the right side of the blog. Look …

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Answers to Waldo Trivia

Apparently the Waldo trivia was harder than I thought.  Here are the answers.  Why don’t each of you that answered questions come see me at the race I’ll give you something. 1. Where did the idea for the name of the race come from? The ski run on the backside of Willamette Pass with the …

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