Dozens of runners participated in the “Are you Tough Enough” ultra-run along the Sierra Madre coastal mountain range on Saturday, with Ubaldo Lopez winning the individual race by completing the 65-mile course in 11 hours and 13 minutes.
The course for Are You Tough Enough starts at Toro Canyon Park in Montecito and finishes at Nojoqui Falls Park near Solvang. It includes substantial elevation gains and portions of the course are unpaved trails and/or fire roads.
Lopez was one of only a handful of individual runners to complete the full course. John Hoenigman (12:34), Steve VanDenburgh (12:41), Chris Clemens (13:53), and Rob DeCou (15:29) also got the job done.
Far more participants covered the 65 miles as part of a relay team. Matt Skenazy’s team placed first in a time of 7:28. Jill Himlan’s group was second overall and first amongst mixed groups. The first all-women team was led by Issi Gullo.
Race director Jim Kornell noted that race conditions on Saturday were pleasant as the temperatures and wind didn’t get too high.
2013 TEAM RESULTS
1 — 7:28 How’s the Knee? (Matt Skenazy)
2 — 7:35 The Forbidden RUTE (Jill Himlan) (1st mixed team)
3 — 8:05 Los Amigos de Goleta (Willy ‘El Mayordomo’ Rossow)
4 — 8:26 Reynolds, Rockets, & Speed, LLC (Dave Saunders)
5 — 9:12 C.A.R.E. 4 Paws (Issi Gullo) (1st women’s team)
6 — 9:17 Running on Empty (Carly Pon)
7 — 9:20 DND/DNR (Nicole des Jardins)
8 — 9:31 Team in Training (Danielle Muller)
9 — 9:32 SBT 1 (Scott Reed)
10 — 9:34 Quick Feet Elite (Yvonne Castillo)
11 — 9:34 Ligers (Stephanie Tanimoto)
12 — 9:50 SBT 2 (Katy Larsen)
13 — 9:55 Up Down (Brian Carroll)
14 — 10:06 SBT 3 (Sloane Claytor)
15 — 10:26 Happy Trails IV (Jules Hastings)
16 — 10:26 Killer Bunnies (Simone Kleinschmidt)
17 — 10:27 Snot Rockettes (Whitney Wilkenson)
18 — 10:33 Happy Trails V (Adam ‘Illegible’ Shaikoy)
19 — 10:42 WTF 1 (‘Where’s the finish?’) (Tamra Murphy)
20 — 10:44 WTF 2 (Juliana Fabio)
21 — 10:44 IT Banditos #3 (Elva Hernandez)
22 — 10:20 Team Awesome (Jeff Mumm)
23 — 10:10 IT Banditos #1/Inside Track (4 person) (Kim Reale)
24 — 10:32 IT Banditos #2 (Rafael Ojeda)
25 — 11:24 TAP Crew (The Asphalt Pounders) (Tino Munoz)
26 — 11:28 Conditioning Specialists (Erin Desharnais)
27 — 11:31 Save Us some Food (Valerie Tyler)
28 — 11:51 Pace Makers (Laura Hollander) Three-person team
