Saddles 100 Countdown

01The Effort

100.3

Miles

+11,709'

Elevation gain

17:56

Target finish time

Aid stations

02Friday Schedule

DateFriday, October 2, 2026

Packet pickup2:00 – 6:00 PM

Course briefing6:00 PM highly recommended

LocationFairweather Social Club — 222 N Cortez St

03Trail Map

Start / Finish Crew access No crew access Erik pacing James pacing

Real topo/street detail (OpenTopoMap) — straight lines between real station coordinates, a course sketch rather than the literal trail path. Tap any station for directions and its Crew Rail leg.

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04Who's Running It

RunnerLucci

Bib goalUnder 17:56 — hard requirement

StrategyControlled through daylight, surge the final 26 from Ranch TH

05LFG Crew

Miller

Crew Chief + Logistics

Overnighting in Prescott Oct 2–3. Clock, position, decisions, plus vehicles/parking/access/station-to-station movement. Covering next-leg briefings + nutrition checks at his stops.

Joey

Nutrition

Calories, bottles, sodium/electrolytes. Lucci's plan: 60g carb/hr, 500ml fluid/hr, 500–1000mg sodium/hr, zero caffeine.

Steph

Gear

Shoes, socks, layers, lights, batteries, foot care.

Erik

Pacer 1

Joins at Willow Lake Ramada (mi 50) · hands off at Ranch TH (mi 74).

James

Pacer 2

Takes over at Ranch TH (mi 74) · runs him in to the Finish (mi 100.3).

Grayson

Floater / Problem Solver

Backup supplies, medical/logistical fixes.

06Logistics

Start lineFairweather Social Club, downtown Prescott

Gun time5:00 AM MST, Oct 3

Crew baseAirbnb, Prescott — Oct 2–3 · details

Pacers legalFrom mile 50.4 — Willow Lake Ramada

07Aid Station Access

Crew can meet him

Start — Fairweather 0.0
White Rock 16.5
Granite Basin Lake 32.9
Willow Lake Ramada 50.4
Peavine TH 57.8
Ranch TH 74.0
Spruce Mountain 89.4
Finish 100.3

No crew access

Copper Basin 8.1
Skyline 23.6
Williamson Valley TH 41.5
Willow Lake (water only) 53.3
Highway 69 62.8
Homestead TH 81.5

Open Lucci's Crew Rail →

Leg-by-leg pacing, coordinates, driving directions, and the live runner check-in log

08Pacing Validation

✓

Pacing math checks out. Every leg's stated pace times its distance matches the elapsed-time delta between consecutive target clock times, within normal rounding (max difference across all 13 legs: 0.04 min/mi). The clock times themselves (6:38 AM, 8:23 AM, etc.) are all exactly 5:00 AM start + the stated elapsed minutes — recomputed independently, not just re-displayed.

✓

Elevation gap resolved. Audited every leg against Lucci's own supplied 2026 GPX track (52,829 GPS points) — now treated as authoritative over the commonly-cited 12,064 ft manual figure. Corrected two legs with real drift (Ranch TH→Homestead TH and Homestead TH→Spruce Mountain, up to 51 ft each); the other eleven were already within a few feet. New verified total: 11,709 ft gain / 11,936 ft loss (the true sum of the 13 rounded per-leg figures below — see the table's Cum Gain/Cum Loss columns). Doesn't change any single leg's pacing target.

✓

Pacing rebalanced — 17:56 total holds exactly. Three legs had unrealistic splits — Willow Lake Ramada→Willow Lake water was hiking-slow (15.9 min/mi) while Willow Lake water→Peavine TH was faster than elite road pace (6.7 min/mi), an internal mis-split of one combined race-book window; Spruce Mountain→Finish assumed a 6.6 min/mi pace at mile 89+, well past plausible even on the day's biggest descent. Rebalanced those three to 11.4 / 10.0 / 9.2 min/mi — and since 17:56 is a hard requirement, not just a target, every other leg was tightened by a small, uniform amount (~3.3%) to hold the exact same 17:56:00 finish rather than let it slip.

#	From	To	Dist (mi)	Leg Time	Total Mi	Gain (ft)	Loss (ft)	Cum Gain	Cum Loss	Target	Elapsed	Stated Pace	Implied Pace	Pace Diff
1	Start	Copper Basin	8.1	98	8.13	1,135	337	1,135	337	6:38 AM	1:38	12.1	12.10	+0.00
2	Copper Basin	White Rock	8.4	105	16.50	1,181	1,519	2,316	1,856	8:23 AM	3:23	12.5	12.50	+0.00
3	White Rock	Skyline	7.1	72	23.59	759	699	3,075	2,555	9:35 AM	4:35	10.1	10.14	+0.04
4	Skyline	Granite Basin Lake	9.3	101	32.86	1,207	1,706	4,282	4,261	11:16 AM	6:16	10.9	10.86	−0.04
5	Granite Basin Lake	Williamson Valley TH	8.7	91	41.53	878	993	5,160	5,254	12:47 PM	7:47	10.5	10.46	−0.04
6	Williamson Valley TH	Willow Lake Ramada	8.9	92	50.39	565	895	5,725	6,149	2:19 PM	9:19	10.3	10.34	+0.04
7	Willow Lake Ramada	Willow Lake water	2.9	33	53.30	448	462	6,173	6,611	2:52 PM	9:52	11.4	11.38	−0.02
8	Willow Lake water	Peavine TH	4.5	45	57.80	134	81	6,307	6,692	3:37 PM	10:37	10.0	10.00	+0.00
9	Peavine TH	Highway 69	5.0	50	62.80	816	396	7,123	7,088	4:27 PM	11:27	10.0	10.00	+0.00
10	Highway 69	Ranch TH	11.2	121	74.00	1,207	1,243	8,330	8,331	6:28 PM	13:28	10.8	10.80	+0.00
11	Ranch TH	Homestead TH	7.5	73	81.50	1,085	570	9,415	8,901	7:41 PM	14:41	9.7	9.73	+0.03
12	Homestead TH	Spruce Mountain	7.9	95	89.40	1,779	1,480	11,194	10,381	9:16 PM	16:16	12.0	12.03	+0.03
13	Spruce Mountain	Finish	10.9	100	100.30	515	1,555	11,709	11,936	10:56 PM	17:56	9.2	9.17	−0.03
TOTALS			100.4^*	1,076	100.3	11,709^†	11,936^†	—		17:56:00 final — matches the hard requirement exactly

*Sum of the rounded per-leg distances above. Each leg is rounded to 0.1 mi; using the precise cumulative mile markers instead, the real total is exactly 100.3 mi — the 0.1 mi gap is a rounding artifact from summing pre-rounded numbers, not a real distance error. Gain/loss figures re-audited against Lucci's 2026 GPX 2026-09-21 — see finding above. Leg Time is minutes for that leg alone; Elapsed is total time on course at that arrival (h:mm from the 5:00 AM gun) — for hourly electrolyte/carb-intake math, not clock time. Cum Gain/Cum Loss are running totals, so the last row's value is the course total by construction. ^†1–2 ft off the previously-cited 11,708/11,938 — each leg's gain/loss is independently rounded to the nearest foot, so the sum of 13 rounded legs doesn't land exactly on the rounded whole-course total; this row now shows the true sum of the values displayed above.

Want to check the math yourself? The full spreadsheet (live formulas — edit any input and every check recomputes) was sent to Miller directly and lives in the KCOS Vault at Cadence/Clients/Lucci Fekete/Saddles-100/Saddles-100-Pacing-Validation.xlsx.