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to them. She doesn’t go by distance but rather by her watch, with a 17mile loop, and then adds on until the watch reads three hours. All we know for sure is that it’s at least 20 miles and no more than 25.

None of the 100-mile races she ran in 2000 would count among her worst experiences. Here’s a quick list of some of Janice’s most trying races:

¢ Onher honeymoon in 1994, she ran a 100K race in Italy. The races in Europe start in the afternoon for some reason—this one at 4 o’clock. Some time shortly after nightfall, an Italian official decided Janice’s husband (Craig, who was her crew) shouldn’t be allowed on the course. Right around 50 miles, she started getting sick and was looking for Craig, and she couldn’t find him. Everyone in the vicinity spoke nothing but Italian, it was dark, she wanted her own drinks and food, and no one could explain to her what had happened to him. It was an ugly next couple of hours while she struggled in. “I was very upset,” she recalled.

¢ On one of her attempts at the Western States 100, she made it to 80 miles when she couldn’t run another step without puking. She had to drop out right there.

¢ She was hospitalized fora week with kidney problems in 1997 after Western States. They never clearly determined what happened, but she developed a severe infection and swelling in her kidneys. It took a long time to get back to normal.

¢ On her first 50-mile trail run at Big Horn Mountain in Wyoming, she arrived at the SOK mark and started complaining about how badly the race was going to Craig, who had come to meet her there in their car. It was very hot, and she was ready to drop out. He quietly started closing all the doors and windows of the car, locked everything, and started to drive away without her. She said, “Wait! I want to drop out.” He told her she should stay in and drove off without another word. She finished three hours later.

100s FOR 2001

Janice plans to continue running 100s. She likes 100s because, for some reason, she has the ability to run hard at the end, especially on the trail.

An injury sidelined her for four weeks in March (probably a needed break) before she built up to run Massanutten again. Eventually, she wants to run all the 100s in the United States at least once. Some of them she is not entirely looking forward to. Recall that she prefers amore runnable course. Runs like the Hardrock 100 in Silverton, Colorado, do not appeal to her.

Also somewhere on the horizon she wants to run the length of the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail. She would have to take a leave of absence from her job, which isn’t in the picture any time soon, but she really wants to do it before she gets too old. Her goal is to run it in under 70 days, which would be the fastest ever by a

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woman. She says the existing record is somewhere around 100 days. Dave Horton, the former men’s record holder for the trail, has been encouraging her to make the attempt (see www.extremeultrarunning.com for Appalachian Trail records).

A special brand of ambition, combined with the degree of perseverance and success we’ ve seen from her thus far, adds up to Janice Anderson being a name we’d all better get used to seeing at the top of trail run results.

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T HESEED of the ambition to run from the northernmost point on the island of Great Britain, John O’Groats, to the southern extremity, Land’s End, was sown in my mind many years ago. On long Sunday runs in the late 60s with Alistair Wood and Steve Taylor, we used to periodically discuss the possibility of an “end to end” relay run.

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