camiseta rosario central<\/a><\/p>\nMatt Bryne on his way to first place at the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Everett Russell\/La Sportiva.<\/p>\n
Competition heated up in Utah on Saturday as the La Sportiva Mountain Cup\u2019s 10th\u00a0and final race of the series, the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase, enticed hundreds of runners to compete for part of a $25,000 Mountain Cup prize purse. The stiff competition ensured fast times on a grueling 16-mile course\u2014winding up and down Jupiter Peak\u2014a 3400-foot change in elevation each way that included a brutal ridge-scramble to the summit\u2019s flag pole, and a series of tight switchbacks on the way down.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nMatt Byrne<\/strong>, 37, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, won the Steeplechase, crossing the finish line in 1:50:22. In Mountain Cup standings, he nearly surpassed Cup leader Jordan McDougal<\/strong>, 25, of Warrenton, Virginia, but didn\u2019t earn quite enough bonus points, ultimately falling behind McDougal by three series points. This gap marks the closest separation in the six years of Mountain Cup history.<\/p>\nMcDougal was very uncomfortable not running the Steeplechase. With five races in he was in the lead, but only by 27 points.\u00a0 He says, \u201cI knew that Matt was running and although I didn’t have it on my schedule I was thinking of going last minute anyway.\u00a0 Then a week before I hurt my ankle and that really made the decision for me. If my ankle wasn’t ready to race I might end up being the points Matt needed to catch me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byrne\u2019s main goal for the race was to get on top first and create a lead. He says that, without many technical aspects in the course, \u201cthe race was all about climbing hard for the first hour and letting it fly on the way down.\u00a0Not\u00a0a whole lot to think about on this course, unless the great view on the top of Jupiter inspired some Jack Handey deep thoughts.\u00a0I only felt deep breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Likewise, the top female contender in the women\u2019s Mountain Cup\u2014Megan Kimmel<\/strong>, 32, of Silverton, Colorado\u2014did not take part in last weekend\u2019s Steeplechase. After race nine in the Cup, Kimmel held a comfortable lead of 35 points in the women\u2019s division, with no threat of losing her handle on the overall Mountain Cup win, regardless of what transpired at Jupiter Peak. She won every Mountain Cup race she ran, with the exception of falling second to Alicia Shay<\/strong> in the first race of the series.<\/p>\nPark City, Utah, locals Susan Minneci<\/strong>, 39, and Emma Garrard<\/strong>, 32, crossed the finish line at their hometown race in strong times of 2:14.35 and 2:16.34 for first and second place, respectively, in the Steeplechase. Maria Dalzot<\/strong>, 25, of Bellingham, Washington finished in third (2:18:23), which snagged her fourth place overall in the Mountain Cup.<\/p>\nDue to a case of Achilles bursitis earlier this year, Dalzot was only able to compete in two of the five Mountain Cup races she\u2019d originally hoped to run. Like Byrne, she hoped to lead out of the gates at the Steeplechase. Says she, \u201cI am a strong climber, so my goal was to lead up the mountain, if possible. You never know who is going to show up and what their strengths are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, she initially held the lead on the 3000-foot climb to the top of Jupiter Peak (topping out around 10,000 feet), but struggled toward the end with tired, shaky legs, and so eventually surrendered her lead to Minneci and Garrard.<\/p>\n
Says Dalzot, \u201cI was right about one thing: it was a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
See http:\/\/www.mountaincup.com for full series standings.<\/p>\n
Full results from the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase race can be found here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Byrne and Minneci win Steeplechase; McDougal and Kimmel earn lion’s share of the La Sportiva Mountain Cup’s $25,000 prize purse Click Here: camiseta rosario central Matt Bryne on his way to first place at the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Everett Russell\/La Sportiva. Competition heated up in Utah on Saturday as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}