Photo credit Howie Stern Billy Grimes and the Silverton Crew after his first Hardrock finish!
Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos Silverton locals celebrate at the Hardrock 100 finish line for Jeff Rome.
Billy Grimes and Anthony Culpepper, the day before the Hardrock 100 Endurance Race began. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos
Billy Grimes at the start of the race. Photo credit Amanda Grimes
The 48-year-old male winner, Ludovic Pommeret from France, crushed the clockwise course time at 21 hours, 33 minutes, and 6 seconds, while the female winner from Leadville, CO, Courtney Dauwalter, also crushed the clockwise female course record with 26 hours, 11 minutes and 47 seconds.
Billy Grimes on a big climb. Photo credit Amanda Grimes
The exhausted race director Dale Garland. Photo credit Anthony Culpepper
Silverton locals Jeff Rome and Sarah Friden just after Jeff Rome’s 5th place finish. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos “I am actually a skier and had my bachelor party at Silverton Mountain in 2003 and had been coming down to the San Juans for years. But then Amanda (his wife) finished her first Hardrock in 2014 and that’s when we started to first make plans on how to move here to Silverton, all because of Hardrock.”
Jeff Rome at the starting line. Photo credit Scott Fetchenhier
Billy Grimes at the finish line! Photo credit Amanda Grimes
Billy Grimes with his nieces. Photo credit Amanda Grimes
Billy Grimes at the finish! Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos
This last Friday, July 12th, the Hardrock 100 Endurance Race began at 6 am in front of the Silverton School gymnasium, and three Silvertonians took off towards Telluride with the other 143 endurance runners. Each year, the 100 Hardrock Endurance race switches the 100-mile course clockwise and counter-clockwise, with the runners this year heading to Telluride, Ouray, Lake City, and then back into S…
