Results
2013 Grand Slam is under way. (Links to Google Docs)
2012 Grand Slam With Ham (all 5 races):
- Van Phan, Maple Valley WA – Badger: 28:06:25, Lumberjack: 21:16:00, Pigtails 200-mile: 52:50:00, Cascade Crest: 25:34:59, Plain: 32:57:00 Total time on trail: 160:44:24, Total mileage: 600, Average pace: 16m 4s/mile
- Matt Hagen, Seattle WA – Badger: 28:06:25, Lumberjack: 23:34:00, Pigtails 150-mile: 43:54:00, Cascade Crest: 25:48:26, Plain: 29:34:00, Total time on trail: 150:56:51, Total mileage: 550, Average pace: 16m 28s/mile
The official 2012 Grand slam is finished! Upon Van Phan’s finish at Plain, Matt Hagen made a claim that since he had come in over three hours before her, he should be declared the winner.
“If you’re counting from the start of Badger to the end of Plain…” he argued unconvincingly to the shuffling array of volunteers, race directors and one very exasperated looking gal with pigtails who had just sat down, “I mean… You don’t stop the clock, right? It’s start to finish. I’m the ‘first finisher’ of the Grand Slam With Ham.”
“WHAAAT?!!!”
Somebody really should have been shooting video.
Eventually his smirk broke through and Van stopped kicking his ankles long enough for him to explain to the others that Van had soundly defeated him in every race in the series except this one and Badger, and that had been because she refused to leave him in the latter miles of that arduous race, insisting that since they had run all night together they should finish together.
Count it any way you like – total distance run (600 miles vs. 550); number of races won (4 to 1); or just overall pace per mile (16m 4s vs. 16:28s) – Van Phan is this year’s champion of the Grand Slam With Ham, just as she was the winner and sole finisher of last year’s Grand Slam.
But I (Matt) am still going to say I’m the ‘first finisher’ whenever Van is within earshot. 
2012 Grand Slam (4 races):
- Jeff Forister, Seattle WA – Badger: 30:51:19, Lumberjack: 27:46:00, Pigtails 100-mile: 25:50:00, Cascade Crest: 30:38:07, Total time on trail: 115:05:26, Total mileage: 400, Average pace: 17m 16s/mile
We were sad to have lost our third competitor for the whole enchilada, Jeff Forister, at Deep Creek. He ran a strong Cascade Crest, but had to drop down to the “Plain 100k” when he was feeling rough and the lightning storm was getting bad as he came into Deep Creek. Even making it halfway is not easy in a race that only 72 people have ever finished. He did, however, finish Badger, Lumberjack, Pigtails and Cascade Crest, making him the official “Grand Slam, Hold the Ham” winner for the 2012.
2011 Grand Slam (4 races):
- Van Phan, Maple Valley Wa – Badger: 26:44:00, Lumberjack: 25:27:00, Cascade Crest: 28:28:41, Plain: 35:10:00, Total time: 115hr 49min 41sec, Average pace: 17m 22s/ mile
Last year there were only four 100s in Washington, and only one finisher, who successfully defended her title in 2012.
As for the rest of the standings for 2012? They’re below.
Very cool! Congrats!
As of this past weekend there are now 6 Washington 100 milers in 2012…the Haunted Holloween Hundred up at Kathy and Ras’ place. Van and Deby finished it so I think you should add that(them) your list. Van, this year, once again, is in a class all by herself Matt.
That Van… Always raising the bar and making me feel like an old man! She also did the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier a couple of weeks after Plain.
Technically the Haunted Halloween Hundred was an “un-run” according to Ras, but it looks like it will be a going concern in the years to come, so I’ll add it to the list.
I feel old.