Team Fluid Running
People ask, "You run for fun?"
Runners reply, "If you have to ask, you can't understand."
Check out our running friends!
Melissa Racouillat
In March of 2010, Melissa competed in one of RacingthePlanet’s 4Desert Series events, the Atacama Crossing in Chile and placed 4th among women and won an age group award. RacingthePlanet’s 4Deserts is a unique, worldwide series of endurance races recently rated by Time magazine as the second toughest endurance challenge in the world. The series consists of four 155-mile footraces across the driest, windiest, hottest, and coldest deserts in the world, in which competitors must carry their own gear over the 6-day race.
Melissa is currently training for her second 4Deserts event in June, the Gobi March in China. She is happy to have FLUID on her side to help her recover after each grueling day.
Melissa runs to help support the Blue Planet Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds to help solve the lack of potable drinking water worldwide. Melissa has a strong connection to this cause after witnessing and experiencing first-hand what deleterious effects the lack of safe drinking water can have on people when she served for two and a half years in the Peace Corps in Cote d’Ivoire (West Africa).
Other Recent Races and Events:
• Rucky Chucky Roundabout 50k, March 2011• Tough Mudder NorCal, October 2010
• Solo Rim to Rim Run Across the Grand Canyon, September 2010
• San Francisco ½ Marathon, July 2010
• The Atacama Crossing 250k, March 2010: Finished 4th female and won an age group award.
• Skyline 50k, August 2009
• Big Sur International Marathon, April 2009
• Way Too Cool 50k, March 2009
Melissa has been featured in San Luis Obispo’s Journal Plus Magazine, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and has contributed to Backpacker Magazine.
To find more about Melissa, follow her running adventures and get some training advice, visit her website at http://infiniteendurance.com.
Chris Price
"I've run a few marathons, Big Sur, Malibu and the hilly San Francisco where I PR'ed with a time of 2:57. Road racing was okay, then one day I was out running with a couple friends and Andy Salinger mentioned that he was running a 50 mile race soon, all on trails. 'Whoa, that's absolutely nuts I thought...but sounds totally awesome,' so I ran it with him."I ran the Leona Divide 50 mile race and fell in love with ultramarathons. The community is so fun and energetic. The sights you see and roller coaster of emotions you feel spending most of the day on the trail is exhilarating. I love the challenge of pushing yourself through pain, tiredness and struggling to maintain focus hour after hour.
"The act of racing these distances beats your body up pretty well and recovering adequately is crucial for being able to race well at the next event, yet ultrarunners need to run high mileage to stay competitive. Drinking Fluid immediately after every run and gym workout helps my muscles recover, allowing me to put more miles on my legs between races."
Recent Race Results:
Bulldog 50k: 4th Place
Mammoth Mountain 50k: 2nd Place
Los Pinos 50k: 1st Place
Bandit 50k: 1st Place
My Blog includes past results, upcoming races and me and my friends ranting and raving about trail running.
www.ultrarunnerrn.blogspot.com
Includes past results, upcoming races and me and my friends ranting and raving about trail running.
Dane Rauschenberg
One Man: 52-Marathons, 52-Weekends
About Me
Fluid is very proud to announce that Dane Rauschenberg is the newest addition to the rapidly growing Fluid Family! At 34, Dane is an amateur athlete
who, in 2006, successively ran a certified marathon every weekend of the year to benefit the Mobile, Alabama chapter of L'Arche Internationale as part of an effort he has called "Fiddy2". But for Dane, that's really just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to raising over $44,000 to date for L’Arche Mobile, Dane has also:
- Ran all 202 miles of the American Odyssey Relay – solo- in just over 50 hours.
- Won the Inaugural Drake Well Marathon - where twenty participants ran 105.5 times around a high school track in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Rauschenberg also served as the race director for this race to keep his 52 marathon streak alive.
- Ran the 100k Sawtooth Relay as a solo athlete, beating ¼ of the 6-person relay teams.
- Won the PT Cruiser Challenge - an event consisting of a 15k, 5k and marathon all in 24 hours.
- Owns the farthest distance ever run (84 miles) at the Presque Isle Personal Endurance Classic - a 12 hour race in Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Ran over 122 lifetime marathons (and counting) with a personal best of 2:49:36.
Are you overwhelmed by accomplishment yet? Well keep reading!- Selected as a member of Team Elite for Powerbar for 2010-2012
- Selected as a Top 10 Finalist for the 2009 Energizer Keep Going Award
- Chosen as the 50 State and DC Marathon Club’s 2009 Humanitarian of the Year.
- Created the “Charity Chaser” event where Dane begins dead last and runs down other participants to raise money for local charities. In four marathons, Dane has raised over $65,000.
- Invited as a solo runner to MBC Hangang Marathon in Seoul, Korea. Dane made this his 4th marathon in 13 days and posted a 2:56 time, placing in the top 5%.
- Ran the Boston Marathon course twice in one day, joining race director Dave McGillivray in running the course again mere hours after completing the fabled race in a time of 3:01.
- Invited as a special guest to the Dalian Marathon in China by the running shoe company, Li Ning.
- Chosen as the first person to be featured in a Road ID advertisement.
- One of MarathonGuide.com’s Outstanding USA Marathoners of the Year – 2006.
So Dane, welcome to the Fluid Family! We can't wait to see what you accomplish with Fluid under your belt, both athletically and philanthropically, and we look forward to working together to make the world a happier, healthier place!
If you want to learn more about Dane and his pursuits, or to see where he's running and speaking next, check out his website: www.seedanerun.com
Josh Spiker
Josh Spiker, racing out of Inside Track and Ventura, CA, win's 2007 Las Vegas 1/2 Marathon!
About Me
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