In its 14th year, BoSho (we have more or less given up on
calling it the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon because nobody else does)
saw a record 128 starters and a record 104 finishers. Course conditions and
weather were ideal, resulting in 32 runners finishing in under 5 hours. Ben
Lewis joined the small number of all time sub-4 hour finishers with an
impressive 3:54:15 time. Collin Anderson narrowly missed joining that club at
4:00:26. Kevin Shilling ran third in 4:08:15, then turned around and won the
Zion 100K the following week. Nicely done. Always impressive, Emily Sullivan
was the first woman finisher in 4:31:10, followed by Bethany Lewis in 4:35:31,
who then turned around and scored a Trans-Zion FKT the following week (read
about it here). Nancy Russell finished third and can undoubtedly sympathize
with Collin, having finished in 5:00:45. Apparently 16 miles of the BoSho
course is the perfect training run for coming in second in the Zion 100K, which
both Suzanne Lewis and Greg Norrander accomplished. Congratulations to both on
great runs at Zion.
This year saw some firsts, including an early start time at
6:00 for those who might take longer or who needed to get to a soccer game.
There was also one 5:00 starter, presumably getting acclimated to the mid-summer
5 a.m. ultra starts. As a completely informal and unorganized event, every
result is duly recorded for posterity, including a new event record of 1 mile
by Anatoliy Zharkikh. At the other end of the spectrum, Jeff Bertot ran 15
miles just to get to the starting line.
Sincere thanks to those who pitched in to help this happen,
including everybody who contributed food and drink for aid stations. John Evans
from Petzl contributed two headlamps for aid station volunteers Tony Dearcos
and Darcie Mueller, who did a superb job at Morris Meadow. Charlie Vincent also
pitched in at the Morris Meadow aid station, as did Carter Williams, who also
helped mark the course Saturday morning. Thanks also to John Wells for
deflagging the northwest loop of the course and smoothing the rails with the
waterworks folks, and thanks also to the waterworks folks for not shutting us
down. Once again when sweeping the course Sunday morning, I saw zero litter
even arguably related to the event, although the same cannot be said of the
individual who appears to have taken up residence near the lower reaches of
Uncle F.
What would you do if you threw a party and nobody came? Thanks
to the support of the local running
community we’ve never had to answer that question. Thank you for coming out,
and we look forward to seeing you next year for the 15th running.
