Katrina Relief Run

On Saturday, September 4, 2005, Geri Kilgariff and Nardini Manor presented a repeat of what last year was called the Hotfoot Hamster, a 12-hour night run. Because of the recent hurricane Katrina disaster, the run was renamed. Contributions were collected to help with the relief effort.

Mark Henderson went out at a blistering pace and held on to the end to be the first ever to go over 100 kilometers in 12 hours at our summer event — not an easy thing to do in the Arizona summer heat. And to top that, it wasn't even a "dry heat," as a monsoon storm blew in right about the same time the run got started. (Another week or two of bad weather and things really start cooling off. Javelina should be nice weather.)

Mark is like the energizer bunny that someone wound up too tight. He kept us all smiling and laughing through the night. The Coury boys kept us entertained as well. Towards the end of the run two of them started going back and forth trying to have the fastest lap. Nick beat out Nathan at the very end of the run with a 1:33 lap time (on a 500 meter loop). We're looking forward to watching these boys at this years ATY. Should be fun.

We're really sorry that we didn't get the "jammie cam" up and going but we did try. We're still stuck with dial up out here and because of this we simply couldn't make the camera work properly. We're not going to give up though and hope to have have something available for the Across The Years Run on New Years.

We've already received a lot of donations for the Katrina Relief Fund and more is still coming in. Tom Crull has been in contact with Dr. Tyler Curiel, and he wanted everyone on the list to know that Tyler truly appreciates all the support. The biggest surprise so far was a $500 donation from the H.U.R.T. 100 group. These guys are awesome and in my opinion have the best kept secret going over there in Hawaii. Thanks again John, PJ and the rest of the H.U.R.T group.

It was really nice seeing all the familiar faces as well as meeting some really cool new ones.

— Rodger Wrublik

Place	Name	Laps	Kilometers	Miles
1	Mark Henderson	209	104.5	64.9363
2	Gary Culver	186	93.0	57.7902
3	Jamil Coury	178	89.0	55.3046
4	Nick Coury	171	85.5	53.1297
5	Robert Andrulis	170	85.0	52.819
6	Matt Kalina	168	84.0	52.1976
7	Andy Roth	162	81.0	50.3334
8	Jerry Schuster	161	80.5	50.0227
9	Tom Polen	158	79.0	49.0906
10	Nathan Coury	150	75.0	46.605
11	Tom Crull	147	73.5	45.6729
12	Dave Ammons	145	72.5	45.0515
13	Amy Adams	145	72.5	45.0515
14	Lynn Newton	141	70.5	43.8087
15	Rob Webster	137	68.5	42.5659
16	John Smithsom	133	66.5	41.3231
17	Katherine Cuda	111	55.5	34.4877
18	Monique Coady	100	50.0	31.07
19	Ned Perry	100	50.0	31.07
20	Mona Gutierez	100	50.0	31.07
21	Melody Varner	100	50.0	31.07
22	Frank Cuda	85	42.5	26.4095
23	Matt Cunningham	85	42.5	26.4095
24	John Wieser	85	42.5	26.4095
25	Burke Painter	71	35.5	22.0597
26	Brian Karasek	70	35.0	21.749
27	Jerry Smedinghoff	67	33.5	20.8169
28	Liz Boyd	66	33.0	20.5062
29	Alex Ammons	62	31.0	19.2634
30	Mellisa Andrulis	56	28.0	17.3992
31	Geri Kilgariff	44	22.0	13.6708
32	Colin Andrulis	40	20.0	12.428

Katrina Relief 12-Hour Run Results