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Louis Jolene
Lake Tapawingo, Missouri
Running Experience:
Guru
Why should we pick you to go to the North Pole?:
Now that I have completed 117 marathons and ultra's (including the 50 states)I am looking for something new, like going to the North Pole in search of Shackleton.
Offer some evidence that you can complete a marathon in harsh, sub-zero conditions at the North Pole:
I am storing up heat credits by running the Disney next weekend and by heading for Mexico in February.
"If you are a cartoonist, there is the additional problem of humor congealing: below a certain temperature, nothing is funny." |
Tell us about your cold-weather race experience:
The coldest race that I have ever run was a plus 4 degrees in a half marathon between Topeka and Auburn Kansas. I particularly enjoyed the piercing winds on the backside of the hills after working up a sweat going up them.
Tell us about your marathon experience, including times, results, etc.:
My best semi-recent marathon was a 3:38 effort at age 70 at Wichita in 2002. Since then my times are approaching five hours. My last successful 100 mile was in November of 2003 at Javelina (hey, I wasn't last) but since then the cut-off times have been my curse and I have missed the cut at Leadville, Massanutten and Javelina. My best time for 100 miles is nineteen hours and three minutes at the 1991 Cornbelt, but that's ancient history.
What do you expect your North Pole Marathon time to be?:
10 hours
Can you write well? Explain:
I have been cartooning and speaking about running for fifteen years. The cartoons need captions so that constitutes writing, and sometimes I will do an extended story with perhaps 500 to 1000 words, such as my float trip down the Missouri River in an inner tube. These appear in our local running magazine, Masterpieces. For a while, they were also in the RRCA magazine until it ceased to publish. When I speak, it is usually about how to make money selling to runners out of the trunk of your car. On January 20 I will be speaking to the Springfield Ridge Runners on the subject of 'Roadkill and Running'. Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle, I expect to be hooted out of the hall by the local runners who have more first hand experience on this subject than anyone else in the country.
Tell us about your media experience:
Hey, I believe we already covered this topic. I think the output will be weather dependent. I have read somewhere that all molecular activity ceases at absolute zero. I know that ball pens stop working well above absolute zero. If you are a cartoonist, there is the additional problem of humor congealing: below a certain temperature, nothing is funny. When I served in Korea, whose temperatures mimic those in New Jersey, I cartooned for the weekly division newspaper. Things went well for the first fourteen weeks, but then winter set in and I had increasing difficulty finding humor. After twenty weeks I threw in the towel, it was 15 degrees in our tent and nothing was funny.
Websites:
I maintain a club web site (www.kctrack.org) but it has nothing about me. I do not have a blog. I publish a weekly email newsletter for two running clubs, but the content is about others.
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Rick says:
Sending Lou to the North Pole would be a most excellent way of sharing with the TOP of the world one of the best of the running community from Missouri!!!
Dave Lesh says:
Hello,
I am writing to support Lou Joline's request to run the North Pole marathon. Lou is a true hero in the running community of Kansas City. Not only is he a great runner/biker/hiker but volunteers way beyond the call of duty. He has not only "given back" to the running public but sets the standard for us all.
By the way, does anyone know that Shakleton never went to the North Pole, he was an Antarctic explorer.
Devin Martin says:
End the contest now, you won't do any better than Lou.
I've only been running in this area (Kansas City) for about a year, but that's more than enough time to recognize a legend. Lou puts on great races (how can you not love a guy in his 70's putting on a 50k called "Dude, Where's the Trail?"), writes laugh-out-loud funny newsletters and race reports, and generally makes the world a better place for everybody he comes in contact with.
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