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Post by irunfar on Nov 10, 2014 13:15:39 GMT -5
Peter,
Thanks for posting your detailed report on the Kokopelli Trail. It'll be helpful when I head out to run it (or part of it) later this week. Just going for fun this go around.
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Post by fasted on Mar 18, 2015 14:55:01 GMT -5
I am letting it be known that Nick Pedatella and myself (Scott Jaime) will be attempting to break the record (running) on the Kokopelli Trail starting on March 25th. We will not be using SPOT for this adventure but will keep time with two separate GPS devices and with crew. We will travel from Loma to Moab.
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Post by thebeave7 on Mar 23, 2015 12:36:43 GMT -5
Scott, You can borrow my SPOT if you want to, I don't need it this weekend. I'll shoot Nick a text as well to let him know. Peter's always a fan of live tracking for FKT attempts  Eric Lee |
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Post by fasted on Mar 23, 2015 20:28:55 GMT -5
I'm happy to use your SPOT and have Nick carry it, thank you. Just didn't have the time to organize it. Either way we will have several people keeping tabs on our clock. Our GPS watches (along with a Mophie recharger) should give us a complete profile and time stamp.
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Post by thebeave7 on Mar 24, 2015 8:26:20 GMT -5
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Post by Peter Bakwin on Mar 24, 2015 16:19:43 GMT -5
Thanks Eric! That will be fun to watch. Best of luck to Nick & Scott on this. I spoke to Paul Pomeroy about this and he said the same. Looks like great weather.
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Post by davidultra49 on Mar 26, 2015 11:08:42 GMT -5
Is this a self supported attempt? Or is there going to be people crewing for you guys. Peter do you have anymore details on their attempt?
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Post by Peter Bakwin on Mar 26, 2015 13:42:05 GMT -5
I'd be very surprised if this wasn't supported. So far they have been surprisingly (to me) close to our times. At Fisher Valley they were right about 20h25m, while we were about 20h44m. But, they were there at 7:30am, while we were there at 2:15am and struggled from there until daybreak up on N Beaver Mesa. Next split I reported was at Castle Valley - we were 27h38m, but it looks to me like they'll be under 26h.
Took us 5h10m from Castle Valley to the end. If they match that they'll finish about 6:10pm - just about 31 hours.
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Post by thebeave7 on Mar 26, 2015 19:35:05 GMT -5
Last SPOT point was at 5:18pm, so I'm assuming they finished sometime around 5:30pm. Peter, where is the actual 'finish' to the Kokopelli on the Moab side? Looks like a new FKT of approx 30h25min +/- depending on when they actually finished.
They were going fully supported, and I believe it was Scott's father-in-law that was running support.
Eric
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Post by Peter Bakwin on Mar 26, 2015 23:14:44 GMT -5
Ends at the Slickrock parking lot, so probably within 10 minutes of that last point. They probably switched the spot off before it transmitted at the parking lot. At 94 miles (Fisher Valley) I had them only 20 min. ahead of our pace, so they really crushed it in the last 40-50 miles.
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Post by davidultra49 on Mar 27, 2015 11:12:22 GMT -5
Awesome stuff. Peter I've been trying to get back out there ever since my surgeries 3 years ago. Things have been pretty rough. Finally though things have started coming around again. If things keep going well for me through Spring and Summer. I plan to give it another shot in October. It's exciting to see things heating up on this trail. Scott and Nick really crushed it out there. I knew they could do it. Congrats to the both of them. They're both fine runners.
I'll keep you posted as the Summer progresses towards my second attempt in October Peter.
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Post by fasted on Mar 27, 2015 17:15:37 GMT -5
Here is the Strava link for our (nick pedatella and Scott Jaime) Kokopelli FKT: www.strava.com/activities/274659001 The trail is much tougher than the profile would lead you to believe. It's mostly all runnable so saving something for the end is critical, at least that's what our strategy was early on. if you feel like you're working too hard in the first 70 miles, then you are. For that reason, we knew Peter and Stephanie had a good steady pace through the flatter sections and we just merely tried to match that and see what we had left in the end. |
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Post by fasted on Mar 28, 2015 9:42:48 GMT -5
Here are the numbers for Nick and Scott: Kokopelli Trail.xlsx (52.66 KB) It can and will be done faster so go get it! You'll need a great crew and a lot of patience. All the best! |
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Post by tallclimberkevin on Mar 21, 2018 3:33:57 GMT -5
Hello all, Adam Parkison and myself (Kevin Hadfield) are setting out on a self supported Kokopelli attempt starting this Friday, March 23, 2018. We plan to leave the Loma, CO trailhead around 5PM. I will be dropping some supply caches on Thursday a la Paul Pomeroy... We will be doing it as a team of 2 though so it's not solo self supported like Mr. Pomeroy's run. We're shooting for somewhere around 32 hours but who knows how it'll go?? I'll report back afterward about the attempt and everything. If you want to follow along, I'll have my SPOT with me. Here is the public share link: share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0ELoyUzF72X599PgP5j5PojWyqUPXsyb5I'll be tracking the whole course with my Fenix 3 and I'll have a battery pack to charge phone and watch for pictures and tracking. It will be a brutal effort but memorable... I've false started the Koko solo one other time so hopefully motivation stays up. We're pretty committed to completing the mission this time together. Anyways, I don't know if it'll be any sort of FKT effort but I thought I'd post here to let anyone interested know about it. I also wanted to thank everyone who posts here for the awesome motivation. Everyone in our silly sport is SO BADASS!!! Much love to all you crazies going big for the fun of it! -Kevin |
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Post by Peter Bakwin on Mar 25, 2018 22:20:51 GMT -5
Looks like Adam & Kevin stopped around midnight last night? Or their SPOT stopped. They chose an unusual 6pm start time on the 23rd, which means they were in the middle of the second night.
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