Dipsea 2012 Results and Recap...with Video!

The ultimate bucket list race, the Dipsea Race, is done for another year.

This year's winner: 72 year-old Hans Schmid. Yes, 72 years old. If you didn't know already, Dipsea uses a handicap start where the very old and very young get varied head starts.

Here's the recap of the 2012 Dipsea.

Here's a great video of the entire start - every single wave. It's a good primer video if you want to run the Dipsea in the future. You can see everyone you'll have to pass...unless you're six...or past retirement age.



Here's a fun time-lapse vidwo of the infamous stairs. Man, those stairs - 688 of them, I do believe.



It's tough to get in - you have to send it on the right day, get lucky in the lottery, etc, but this is one every serious runner should enter.

Let's race!

Time to Enter Dipsea!

All right, this is no time to dilly-dally: if you want to have a chance to get into the greatest race in the world, and perhaps the most difficult race in the world to get into, you've got to be ready!

This Wednesday, the 16th, the Dipsea organizers will be posting the entry form. You've got to fill that baby out and get it in the mail like pronto. It's a first come, first served type of thing. Well, they also accept bribes of cold, hard cash, but basically, it's a speed thing. You've got to get the entry in the mail fast.

If you don't know the Dipsea, it's time you learned. This is a bucket-list type race. Don't miss your chance to get in.

Reilly Johnson - Eight Year Old Dipsea Winner!

The Dipsea trail race, the oldest, and let's face it, most awesome, trail race in America, was won by an eight year old in 2010.

Yes, an eight year old. You see, the Dipsea uses age-adjusted start times, so Reilly got a nice head-start on most of the runners...but not on three time winner Melody-Ann Schultz, who is 68 years old, and also had a nice head-start on the pack. They started together and both had 25 minutes on the eventual overall time winner: Alexander Varner.

Yeah, the race was way back in June, but I just found this great five minute clip, in Reilly's own words, about the race. Hey, if this super-fast little girl can't inspire you to get out there and run, you might as well just give up.

Thanks to Runner's World, and enjoy.