Jackpot USATF 100
February 20, 2026
30:05:09
1st in the 60-64 division, only female entrant in the 60-64 division
Worst performance yet at Jackpot in the seven times I’ve been here
I was looking forward to Jackpot as I felt like my training was strong recently. I also knew there were some fast women I could watch lap me over and over again and quite a contingency from the NW would be in attendance as well as my usual friends from ATY. So this weekend was going to be a partay on the loop supporting one another, my kind of fun.
I met Kaylee and Stella, fantastic running women, and Trisha and Janelle, also fantastic, set up their camp right near me so we were all together with Nattu, Chris and Amy. Of course Cecilia had her special tent because she was tackling the 48 hour.
It was really exciting cheering on all the fast people as they looped us. The number one gal has a habit of chatting too much and she really had to avoid that to get the record so we had an ongoing joke as she ran by me, she blamed me for not letting her socialize and I told her how much faster she is without the socializing. I think her husband appreciated that I was helping to curtail her socializing. The number two gal was young, maybe 21, strong, sweet and a total badass. Another older maybe 45-49 year old was blazing fast all day and wore a shirt that said cupcake on the back, I told her now I want a cupcake each time she passed me. The number four gal just turned 55 and set a world record and then the number five gal thought her race might be over early in the day, instead she toughed it out and finished. All of these women finished under 16 hours, amazing. After that it was much less exciting on the loop.
My race - No chafing, no cramps, no blisters, no tummy issues so I had many things dialed in. Not my lungs apparently. The cold and the wind and the dryness reeked havoc as my lungs developed this phlegm that I kept having to cough up. Yuck. I tried my inhaler and it provided some relief but my lungs were already too far gone. So since I’m stubborn I finished a hundred in a much slower time than I wanted. I shared that my time was super slow this year, two and half hours slower than last year and a fellow runner said that I just wanted more time on the loop to be in the action and socialize with others, ha, that is some excuse.
But a finish is a finish and in my book finishing a hundred is a win. This happens to be my 89th finish of a hundred or more miles. During the night when I was hacking up a lung I thought maybe I don’t want to get to 100 x 100. But then I remembered that I have already paid for entries up through October, so dayam …I guess I’m still in the hunt.