Yukon Arctic Ultra 2007
Media Release
07:49 local time 13th February
Shelley Gellatly wins the 100 mile race
Reporting about the difficulties people are having on the trail I almost forgot to announce that Shelley Gellatly from Whitehorse won the 100 mile race. Shelley was heavily involved in the organisation of this race. Since she has been busy at work and there was not much time for training it is great to see her doing so well. "If a snowmobile would have passed me on the last bit I would have scratched", she admitted to me. Shelley hurt her knee and since she already finished the 100 and 300 mile race in past years she said "I did not have anything to proof and I did not want to hurt my knee badly". Well, there was no snowmachine and she just kept on going.
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Jacob Nielsen from Denmark came in on the 12th at 21:55 to place 2nd in the 100 mile race. I have not seen him yet as he went back to Whithorse right afterwards but I am sure he is happy about this improvement. In 2006 he placed further back in the field. This time he had great timing and it seemed to have gone well for him.
Thomas Wiget from Switzerland came 3rd on Feb. 12th at 23:20 and Heike Pawzik ranked 4th coming in this morning at 05:40.
Frank Janssens and David Berridge, both in the 300 mile race, headed out to Ken Lake not far apart from each other.
Unfortunately, it is now confirmed that Andrew McLean has got a stress fracture of one of his metatarsals. He has had the same problem in his other foot and his self-diagnosis was right. The Canadian is back in Whitehorse since last night. Greg Lindsey had to scratch because of an injury that he got treatment for already before the race. Very often at the YAU this is what happens. Old injuries come back or injuries that athletes got treated for in the weeks before the race get worse.
P.S. It has warmed up to -22 degrees Celsius ...
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