{"id":1017,"date":"2016-06-13T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2016-06-15T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T10:10:25","slug":"bazs-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Baz’s Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think this was my 6th or 7th Shadow of the Giants 50k.\u00a0 Every time, Baz (the RD) has said it’s his last, but since his 75th birthday is coming up, I think it might be his last one.\u00a0 While Baz probably doesn’t know my name, he has offered an incredible amount of inspiration and amusement to me, Tracy,\u00a0and Preston.\u00a0 I wouldn’t think that Preston cared about the race, but since he was going to Yosemite instead of racing this time, he was worried he wouldn’t make it for Baz’s raffle time.\u00a0\u00a0 Raffle is basically a trivial pursuit game that allows Baz to pass on surplus race material and make inappropriate comments to everyone (totally allowed when you are 75) .\u00a0 Raffle was fun, with Brad winning duffle and Preston catching a shirt.\u00a0 The picture below is Baz (far right) and his crew from over 30 years ago…. crazy thing is most of these guys are still running.\u00a0 A 77 year old finished Shadow this year.<\/p>\n

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Tracy after retiring from running crushed the 20k in just over 2 hours in 2013…<\/p>\n

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Preston was like Baz’s little pet for several years being the only kid to run the 20k….<\/p>\n

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This post is a big tribute to someone that was founder of the sport and brought inspiration and joy to so many…. Baz’s farewell is here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bigbaztrailraces.com\/16\/50K-ShadowG-Jun11.htm (make sure you look at #98 in the 50k)<\/p>\n

In regards to the race this year, I beat my best time by 48 seconds, making it my fastest 50k ever…. \u00a0Lots of football and poker was played during the week – below is a cool shot.<\/p>\n

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I think this was my 6th or 7th Shadow of the Giants 50k.\u00a0 Every time, Baz (the RD) has said it’s his last, but since his 75th birthday is coming up, I think it might be his last one.\u00a0 While Baz probably doesn’t know my name, he has offered an incredible amount of inspiration and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}