Ice Age Trail 1000 - On the Trail

1079 miles plus 6 days and 50 more miles.

nospam@example.com (Editor) — Sun, 13 May 2007 10:05:47 -0700

Ice Age Trail 50 mile run

Well it finally happened, I feel like a truck hit me yesterday. Saturday was still very successful however. I finished the 50 mile run in just under 10 hours, but my feet and quads now feel like I thought they would for every day of the 1000 miles. They are sore and stiff and I walk the Frankenstien. What I learn from this is we got a little lucky. By going a little slower (11ish hours) for the 23 days and by ice bathing and eating right we were able to maintain the body. After I finished
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What's all that smoke?

nospam@example.com (Peter Wadsack) — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:02:14 -0700

Dave, Brenda, and I left Madison at 05:00 on Sunday to run with Jason on his final stage. As we got to Algoma, Brenda asked "What is all that smoke from?"

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Day 23

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:04:31 -0700

Thirty (30) miles for an unofficial total of 1079 miles over 22 days and 6 hours. If I can still do math that comes out to just about 48 miles a day. The official count will have to be tallied over the next few days to account for some of the road changes we made during the run.

We finished at 12:34pm on top of Potowatomi SP. My dad pointed out that that meant we finished 1234567. Get it? It was a great day with family and friends and fellow runners. I got choked up throughout the day as more runners and watchers joined our convoy of cars. It is wonderful to know such great people....

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1079 miles in 22 1/2 days!

nospam@example.com (Editor) — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:45:00 -0700

Jason has completed the continous through run of the complete Ice Age Trail (1079 miles) that he started April 14, 2007 . This blog exists to track his daily progress. Jason finished today about 12:30pm and just called from on top of the tower where he was celebrating with about two dozen people. They were having some champagne and were then going to have a little cookout. Great job Jason! There will be many on-the-trail photos from Jason's camera coming in the next week, so check back every couple of days for new content.

Jason should soon be a member of the Ice Age Trail "Thousand Miler club!"

Remember that this was a fund-raising effort and 100% of all tax deductible contributionsmade on behalf on Jason will go to the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundationand will be used to:

- Provide training, tools and technical assistance to the volunteers who develop,
maintain and promote the Ice Age Trail.
- Protect key land parcels and serve as a link between local landowners and our
government partners in order to further completion of the Ice Age Trail.
- Build partnerships for the Ice Age Trail with local governmental units, civic
organizations, and teachers and their students.

Day 22, Unbelieveably only 30 miles left!!

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:07:58 -0700

We ended in Rio Creek at about 1049 miles.We are staying in Algoma. We will plan to start at 6:30am tomorrow, but if we wake up early and are ready to go, then we will start early. I can’t imagine how we ever made it through the past 3 weeks, but we did. It has been fun listening to all the stories from people following my adventure. I am glad to be able to give you a successful tale. You are all the best. Please get out when you can to enjoy the trails that I have been enjoying for the past 22 days. (Photo's inside)

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Day 21 - Light at the end of the trail

nospam@example.com (Editor) — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:02:00 -0700

Jason called in tonight since he did not have a good Internet connection where he was staying in Two Rivers, so we have an audio report for you. It appears that there is new trail along lake Michigan, which is why the green line branches toward Manitowoc on the map (I suspect the IAT map is out-of-date).

Click here to play today's audio report.

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More Audio & Janesville Gazette

nospam@example.com (Editor) — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:39:00 -0700

Update: Greg suggested that it would be cool to play a random Audio Clip, and we aim to please...

You can now Click to play a random Audio file!(Audio will start after a short delay... )

The Janesville Gazettekindly provided PDF's of their story since it did not make it to their online version. Here is the front page, and then page 8 where the story continues. Story courtesy of the Janesville Gazette and Anna Marie Lux.

Photo (pdf) from May 1 Capitol Times (local archive)

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Day 20, it doesn't get much better

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:36:07 -0700

What a great day! 943 miles done, 136 miles to go. ADDENDUM: Photos added.

Timo writes: With another 49 miles behind him, today Jason had yet another good day on the Ice Age Trail.

The temp was 45 degrees when Jason started out from a point west of Slinger, WI. Robert saw him off at 6:29 a.m. Some roads to cover today, but mostly some of the best trails. The skies were sunny all day, and there was a pleasant cool wind from the east (the direction of nearby Lake Michigan). The high temperature was 61.

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Day 19, another 50 miles down, YEAH!

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:06:07 -0700

I had a tough last 3 hours, but with another 50 miles down, there are only 185 miles to go! We ended at Hwy 60 outside of Hartford after going through Pike Lake SP.Tomorrow we start by going through Slinger and West Bend before heading into the Northern Kettle.We should end by Greenbush.We have a couple photos from Stuart to share also...

(Ed.) Jason is on the front page of the JS Online website with video! I suspect this photois as close as Jason will get to Forest Gump!

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Midday update

nospam@example.com (Editor) — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:01:31 -0700

Jason called in an update over lunch. Lorraine Bunk and Tom Held ran with Jason earlier today. Tom is putting together a story for publication in the next couple of days - watch Tom's Blog and JS-Online.Jason was in good spirits and heading towards the Hartland Marsh preserve and the Holy Hill segmentafter completing the Lapham section. He expects to finish near Pikes lake today.

He is now North of the Southern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest (map) and should be in the Northern Unit (map)on Thursday.

Day 18, great day with lots of people

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:23:56 -0700

We finished 48 miles today for a total of 845 miles and ended at the trail head on Cty D just off of Cty C north of the Scuppernong trails. Just 5 days to go, oh man!

I am very tired, but still looking forward to Wednesday as it will bring a nice mixture of roads and trails. By starting off with mainly roads for the first 15 miles and ending with 33 miles of trails, the day was quite challenging.

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Playing hooky

nospam@example.com (Tim Yanacheck) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:48:00 -0700

On the afternoon of April 30 (Monday), Pat Heyn and I played hooky from work and went to Janesville to see how Jason was doing. This was Day 17 for him. He had another very productive day - over 50 miles again, I think - most of the time running into a stiff easterly head wind. (Photo's inside!)

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Day 17, 52 miles today, 797 total miles

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:48:00 -0700

Staying in Whitewater tonight after stopping in the middle of Bowers Lake Road to the NE of Milton.

Today was a great day. It never got too hot and Timo Yanacheck and Pat Heyn showed up later in the day to run the last 4-5 hours with me. Robert Wehner did a super job getting me to eat and drink over 4000 calories again.

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Day 16, successful but it sure was hot

nospam@example.com (Jason Dorgan) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:14:37 -0700

We had another successful day, covering about 50 miles for a total of about 745 miles. We are staying in New Glarus tonight and made it to River Road south of Monticello after 11 hours of running and walking today.

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Day 15 Running with Jason

nospam@example.com (Brenda Bland) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:09:00 -0700

Kevin Radel and I decided to meet up with Jason while he was in the Madison area. We both wanted a long run, so we went up towards Lodi to catch up with Jason and Timo, who started at about 6:30...

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