@Challengers One thing I love about the Challenge is how it changes every year. In 2021, Jamie Loehr was our first finisher, though it took several weeks due to courses opening in February and continuing to do so through April. In 2022, Rebecca Lambert was our dark horse first finisher, coming out of nowhere to finish in 10 days. For 2023, Jamie worked hard to reclaim his 2021 crown, but Rebecca doubled down on several days to finish in just 7 days and finish first again. I joked last year that someone would have to go for the FLRC 100K Ultra Challenge to beat Rebecca.
Of course, that’s what happened with Pete Kresock starting at 12:04 AM and finishing his last course at 3:32 PM. It’s a fantastic feat that will be hard to beat for future Ultra Challenge competitors!
But if you check the Completions page, you’ll find another entry. Congratulations to Amalia Skilton, who has now completed her fourth FLRC Challenge in a row. As many of you know, Amalia is moving to Edinburgh, Scotland, next week, and while she hopes to be back in July to collect some more Challenge miles on runs with friends, she applied for and was granted a Personal Challenge exemption to the rule about running courses before the start date.
She has been ticking them off, one by one, and contributing corrections and suggestions to the RunGo directions throughout, and her last run on the Lindsay-Parsons course this morning made for her final run. I don’t have the FLRC Challenge medals yet, but I’ll definitely be saving one for Amalia.
