The Javelina Jundred was run on Jalloween this year. This desert 100-mile race is run in McDowell Mountain Park near Fountain Hills, Arizona, at the base of the McDowell Mountains. The course is a loop format that runs on the 15.3-mile single-track Pemberton Trail. We would have to run six loops in alternating directions and then run a shorter loop to bring the distance up to about 101 miles.
I have a love/hate relationship with this race. I ran it for the first time in 2009, finishing pretty good with a time of 23:47. However, in 2012, I returned and my race fell apart because of the heat and I quit after 100K with a slow time of 19:37, more than three hours slower at that point than my first year. After the poor experience that year, I vowed to never return again.