Tevis Archive

In 1997 Tevis hit my radar and overnight I was hooked. Being hooked meant that the following year I started doing web coverage (at that time Tevis didn't have any online presence at all, other than people emailing Ridecamp and saying "what's happening?!"). Managing the coverage single-handed was quite an undertaking and basically meant going without more than a few hours sleep from Friday morning through Sunday evening for the next six year's worth of Tevises. Great practice for future 100 mile endurance rides. My basic web coverage gradually moved on to me living in Net Control during the ride, listening to the radio broadcasts from the various checks and frantically typing rider # in/out times into my laptop at 3 a.m. (all the while blearily transposing numbers). This segued into setting up and streamlining the more sophisticated "Where's my rider" database system (also used by sister event the Western States 100 Run) conjured up by Richard Goodwin a few years later and still used today. Once the database system was in place, it freed me up to be able to go out and take photos and video of the ride - my early web coverage meant I hardly saw a horse during race day, which was not exactly ideal.

Archives: Past Coverage and Tevis Activities Having moved around a lot on the web, many of my early archives have been lost but I dug around and came up with the following. Some are links to overall web coverage of the event, while 2004, 2009, and 2014 cover my personal* posts on the subject. (*In 2004 I trained for the ride with Provo and didn't even get to the start line. In 2009 Roo and I made an attempt [which apparently I still have yet to write up. Maybe it'll happen one day - parts of that ride are still crystal clear in my mind] and in 2012 Fergus and I finished. In 2014 Fergus gave me the best ride of my life and one that I'll never forget. Write-up still in progress) Overall Web Coverage (1997 to 2000 are archived on a really old site which may eventually go away, and are missing photos and generally a mess, but still hanging in there for posterity) Tevis 1997 Tevis 1998 Tevis 1999 Tevis 2000 Tevis 2001 Tevis 2002 Tevis 2003 Tevis 2004 The Road to Tevis (or how not to get to Tevis) Tevis Training Diary (Lucy and Provo train for the ride... or should I say "overtrain". And that was the end of that.) Photo Log: pre-riding Robinson Flat to Foresthill (including riding parts of the trail now badly burned in the 2013 American Fire. Hopefully one day it'll return to the former glory shown in these photos)  Photo Log: pre-riding Foresthill to Finish Tevis 2007 (best of both worlds - crewing and taking videos): Vetting in at Robie Park Robinson Flat Michigan Bluff Foresthill Finish in Auburn Top Ten showing for best condition Haggin Cup Top Ten Horses being presented Tevis 2009: Roo and I attempted Tevis. I partially wrote it up but never finished it. At least this covers the pre-ride preparation and vetting in.  Tevis 2014: Pre-ride jitters Remedying the "I haven't done enough" jitters Ride write-up in progress