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Here are a couple photo's from Thursday April 26 in Marquette County


Running on Dover Ave, Marquette County

Continue reading "Photos from last Thursday"

Ann, Timo, Dave, Brenda, and Kevin helped pace Jason today and they will be posting their updates later. After 15 consecutive days of running, Jason achieved the days goal of reaching Cross Plains!

Tomorrow (Sunday) Robert Wehner will be taking over crewing duties from Tom early afternoon and will remain with Jason for the duration of the journey.

Robert' Wehner's cell: 262-370-7270 (Afternoon Sunday and all next week).
Continue reading "Changing of the Guard - Day 15"

Jason completed a little over 44 miles today after finding a shorter road route between Portage and Parfrey's Glen. Since there are no official road connectors between Ice Age Trail segments, the shortest possible route is desirable. Jason also said his hamstring is still a bit tight and the ankle swelling is back. Hopefully Dr. Tom will take care of that.

Matt Frank ran the final 15 miles of todays trek in Devil's Lake with Jason. Here is Matt's account....

Continue reading "The hills of Devil's Lake - Day 14"

Peter and I ran with Jason from about 12:45pm to 5:30pm today, and I figured out how he does it (well, part of it anyway)... He simply doesn't stop...

Continue reading "A determined pace"

Jason just called in an update. He was finishing a 6.2 mile trail segment in Hartman Creek State park.Joel Patenaude, Editor from Silent Sports magazine, had just left him to run back to his car... ADDENDUM, photo's added.

Continue reading "Day 12 Midday update"

First let me direct you to Tom Held at the Journal Sentinel who is also tracking Jason on his Blog, Off the Couch.For another perspective, take a read and then bookmark it... Jason calls in reports to Tom also. Here is an Audio update at the JS Online site.

So around 5pm yesterday (Sat) Jason called me (while he was running on the trail) to see how WE did in the Southern Illinios 80 mile River to River relay. 80 miles with 8 runners or 345 miles/Solo runner... It doesn't even compare! It was nice of him to check on us, but I was thinking, ...
Continue reading "Who's checking on who?"

I see that Jason uploaded two photos but didnt have time to link them to the blog...



Starting point in St. Croix Falls

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Continue reading "A few photos..."

Jason is attempting a continous through run of the complete Ice Age Trail (1079 miles) Apr 14 - May 6, 2007.

This blog is here to track his daily progress. This Google Map Linkshould provide some start/stop location information, and maybe a few intermediate way-points. We also have a map with completed trail, other map links, and phone numbers.

New! Play a random clip from Jason's audio journal!(Audio will start after a short delay) Stop Audio
(This uses BGSOUND and probably only works with IE, or in Firefox with a plugin)

Continue reading "Finding Jason..."

I gave Tom Bunk a call this morning to see how Wednesday (4/18) went for Jason.

Jason stopped about 7 miles short of the goal yesterday. By the end of the day he had some swelling above his ankles due to some tendinitis. Tom had Jason put his legs in a nearby stream for about 20 minutes when he stopped, and then later they iced his ankles. By this morning, Thursday, the swelling was down. For those not familiar with ultra-ultra running, this situation is not out of the ordinary.

They picked up some ankle braces last night and this morning Tom taped him up and sent him on his way, along with pacer Bob Rush - I know from experience that a pacer will be much appreciated and very helpful to Jason today.

Jason is just going to listen to his body and Tom said they may go a little shorter today if needed to ensure that they can continue to put in miles every day.

Good luck Jason!

Jason was featured on the front page the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online today... Also made the front page of the printed version.

Check out Channel 3 news in Madison for a story on 3 women that finished hiking the trail and Jason's pre-start account.

There is a nice story and an audio interview with him...
Continue reading "In the news"