{"id":1312391,"date":"2019-07-14T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/eberly-gets-redemption-wins-power-of-four-50k-trail-run\/"},"modified":"2019-07-14T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T14:36:00","slug":"eberly-gets-redemption-wins-power-of-four-50k-trail-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/eberly-gets-redemption-wins-power-of-four-50k-trail-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Eberly gets \u2018redemption,\u2019 wins Power of Four 50k trail run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joshua Eberly, right, leads Cam Smith at the top of Aspen Mountain during the Audi Power of Four 50k trail run on Saturday, July 13, 2019. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong>
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Joshua Eberly was in line to win last year\u2019s Audi Power of Four 50-kilometer trail run before a bit of confusion with the signs veered him off course, ultimately leading to his disqualification. That miscalculation gave the Gunnison runner plenty of fuel as he set out to redeem himself a year later.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can point fingers at the course markings, myself, but overall it\u2019s more or less just my own fault for not knowing the course. This year I really studied it and I knew at mile 10 there was an out and back,\u201d the 38-year-old Eberly said. \u201cMore or less it was redemption and I just wanted to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eberly made up for his 2018 mistake by winning Saturday\u2019s 50k in 5 hours, 24 minutes, 23.3 seconds. The Adidas TERREX ambassador won by 12 minutes over Boulder\u2019s Clark Messman (5:36:43), with another Boulder runner, John Herrick, taking third in 5:41:32.1.<\/p>\n

Gunnison\u2019s Cam Smith, an elite member of the U.S. ski mountaineering team, was fourth. T.J. David led the Aspen locals by finishing eighth, while Aspen\u2019s Max Taam was 10th.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the first climb we had a good three, four, five. Even the second climb we were still right there together,\u201d Eberly said. \u201cIt was just on the downhills I felt more efficient and opened up and just got enough of a gap to keep running and got them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Power of Four, produced by Aspen Skiing Co., is a roughly 31-mile race that takes runners up and over all four of the area ski mountains, beginning with Aspen Mountain and finishing in Snowmass Village. Eberly said he put some distance on his competition during the descent of Aspen Highlands, the second of the four mountains, but admitted the climb back up Buttermilk\u2019s Tiehack was brutal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe climbs are pretty epic. Early on it\u2019s nice because you are feeling good and you got the heat factor and it\u2019s right around 17 miles where you start climbing up the third,\u201d Eberly said. \u201cThat was the toughest because the heat is on you and you are already 17 miles into the race. I was looking over my shoulder every other minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking the women\u2019s 50k title was Boulder\u2019s Rea Kolbl, who was seventh overall with a time of 6:07:08.2. A full-time professional athlete who focuses on obstacle course racing like Spartan Races, Kolbl is originally from Slovenia but moved to Colorado for training.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old made her Power of Four debut when she competed in the winter\u2019s skimo race, even though skiing isn\u2019t necessarily her cup of tea.<\/p>\n

\u2018That was a lot harder. I prefer being without skis,\u201d Kolbl joked. \u201cMy friend convinced me to do the skimo and we survived that, so I figured if we did the hard one I might as well do the one I\u2019m actually good at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kolbl called the early part of the 50k trail run, especially the climb up Aspen Mountain at 6 a.m., \u201csoul crushing,\u201d but certainly made an impressive showing by winning the women\u2019s race by about 35 minutes over Julie Powell of Colorado Springs. The third woman to finish the 50k was Darcy Piceu of Boulder. She was only about a minute behind Powell. They finished 12th and 14th overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was hoping, but when it\u2019s so long and so hard, so many things can go wrong,\u201d Kolbl said of her expectations to win. \u201cI was struggling for the last 10k quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dewey, Ardrey win Power of Two 25k races<\/p>\n

Jacob Dewey of Colorado Springs has his eyes set on the Aug. 31 Grand Traverse mountain run, which goes from Crested Butte to Aspen, and saw the Power of Two as a good training opportunity. The shorter race, which includes only Buttermilk and Snowmass, was won by the 20-year-old who goes to college in Gunnison and is relatively new to trail races.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt typically has some good competition and it\u2019s a good, honest course. Good ups, good downs and it\u2019s a beautiful place to run,\u201d Dewey said. \u201cI\u2019m happy about it, but I got to get back to training and get focused for the GT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dewey completed the 25k race in 1:55:52.28, beating Carbondale\u2019s Joseph DeMoor by about 90 seconds and New Zealand\u2019s Jack Beaumont by about six minutes.<\/p>\n

Boulder\u2019s Deanna Ardrey won the women\u2019s 25k in 2:17:14.81, taking 10th overall. Brynn Devine of Denver was the second female finisher, taking 21st overall in 2:54:44.45. Breckenridge\u2019s Jaime Brede was third among women in 2:58:35.94.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first climb was really hot and in the sun. I didn\u2019t feel warmed up enough until about halfway up it. It was steep,\u201d Dewey said of the first climb up Tiehack. \u201cYou have a nice descent and quite a bit of deep stream crossings and kind of ran into no-man\u2019s land for all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also part of the Power of Four festivities was a 10k race, which started and finished in Snowmass. Dillon\u2019s Sam Burke, only 16, won the race in 40:27.51. Basalt\u2019s Jeremy Duncan was second (41:50.01). Malia Cali of Denver was the top woman in the 10k, taking third overall in 45:22.88.<\/p>\n

The three-part Audi Power of Four series concludes Aug. 17 with the mountain bike race. Up for grabs will be the Triple Crown title, which goes to the athletes with the best collective times from all three races.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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