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Show B-4 The Park Record Calendar Summer Sports Running Vigor Solitude August 11 8:00 a.m. Mid Mountain Marathon August 18 7:00 a.m. Triathlon Jordanelle August 18 8:00 a.m. Bike Racing Intermountain Cup Series Snowbird August 4 8:00 a.m. Powder Mountain August 25 8:00 a.m. Mountain Trails Tour Des Suds September 16 TBA High School Sports Football Park City @ Wasatch August 17 7:00 p.m. North Summit vs. Layton Christian August 17 7:00 p.m. South Summit vs. San Juan August 17 7:00 p.m. Girls Soccer Park City @ Skyline August 7 4:00 p.m. South Summit @ Am. Leadership August 9 7:00 p.m. Wasatch @ Sky View August 9 9:00 a.m. Park City @ Brighton August 11 10:00 a.m. Wasatch vs. Timpview August 11 9:00 a.m. Park City @ Highland August 14 3:30 p.m. South Summit vs. Waterford August 14 4:00 p.m. Wasatch @ Layton August 14 4:00 p.m. Park City vs. Dixie August 16 10:00 a.m. South Summit @ Union August 16 4:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Carbon August 17 7:30 p.m. Wasatch @ Cedar August 18 6:00 p.m. Boys Golf Park City @ Ben Lomond August 7 10:00 a.m. Park City @ Stansbury August 8 8:00 a.m. North Summit @ Altamont August 13 9:00 a.m. Park City @ Juan Diego August 14 8:00 a.m. Park City @ Tooele August 16 8:00 a.m. Park City vs. Olympus August 14 1:00 p.m. Park City vs. Wasatch August 16 1:00 p.m. Park City @ Lone Peak Tourney August 17-18 TBA Recreation Sports Park City Recreation Services (615-5401) Soccer 6:00-9:00 p.m. Volleyball 4v4 Comp Division Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. 4v4 Rec Division Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Sand Doubles Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Softball Coed Comp Division Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Rec Division Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Division Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Division Wednesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Men’s Division Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Weather Hotline (cancellations) 615-5432 Ice Hockey 615-5707 Gold League Sunday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Basin Recreation Fieldhouse (655-0999) Girls Tennis 7v7 Coed League Wednesday Park City Ice Arena Drop-in Sports Basketball (age 16 +) Tues. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Tues/Thurs Noon-2:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Sat/Sun 8:00-10:00 a.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00-4:30 p.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Sun–Friday 8:30 a.m. Noon Volleyball (age 16 +) Thurs. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri Noon -1:30 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Wed. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 30 +) Tues 8:00-10:00 p.m. Masters Swim Tues/Thurs Noon-1:00 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center (783-2423) Adult Men’s Softball Thursday Rock Wall Saturday 6:30-10:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym Wed. – Fri 4:00 – 6:00 p.m To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com Searching for new things to do? You don’t have to work this hard. Check out the calendar in Scene for local music, events and more! Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 1-3, 2018 Team three-peats in world championship burro race Kirt Courkamp wins with Mary Margeret, the burro kindest course to Courkamp and Mary Margaret, Leadville has been the tandem’s kryptonite. On Sunday Courkamp and Mary Margaret completed the long course — which requires runners and their burros to ascend from a start at the gates of historic South Park City, up to the 13,185-foot Mosquito Pass, and back down again to a finish line at Fairplay’s Front Street — in 6 hours, 6 minutes and 38 seconds. It may have been good enough for first place, but Courkamp said it was a substantial step back compared to his winning times of 5:29:54 in 2017 and 5:41:08 on his maiden run in 2016. As for the annual week-after race at Leadville Boom Days, it’s the man and burro that finished second to Courkamp on Sunday in Fairplay — George Zack and Jack — that may prove to be the foil once again. Last year Zack and Jack won the 21-mile Leadville race in 3 hours and 55 minutes, compared to Courkamp and Mary Margaret’s fourth-place finish in 4:09:23. At Buena Vista’s Gold Rush Days 13-mile pack burro race a week later, Courkamp and Mary Margaret bested Zack and Jack with a time of 2 hours and 45 seconds compared to Zack and Jack’s 2:01:21. But both teams were topped by first-place finishers Andrew Knutsen and his burro Crazy Horse (2:00:37). In 2016, Zack and Jack (3:51:22) also won the Leadville race while Courkamp and Mary Margaret (4:23:14) finished more than a half-hour behind in fifth-place. “I always stumble at Leadville,” Courkamp said. “George is the master at Leadville. He dominates at Leadville.” In order to win at Leadville and keep his triple crown hopes alive, Courkamp said his primary concern is keeping his calves from cramping. On the 29-mile run on Sunday, Courkamp said he orally consumed the HotShot muscle cramp treatment four times after he began cramping a halfmile down from Mosquito Pass. “It cost me some time today,” Courkamp said. “And I ran out of HotShots to knock ‘em down, so I really struggled.” As for Mary Margaret, Courkamp said it wasn’t her best day either. Though weather conditions were fine and lacked any real snow, hail or rain, Courkamp said it was by far the windiest of the three Fairplay World Championship races he’s won. He described conditions as “screaming” at the top of Mosquito Pass. Whether it was wind or something else, though, he wasn’t sure why Mary Margaret wasn’t feeling it on Sunday. Though Sunday wasn’t their best day as a team, the two have grown very close over the past three years. Courkamp was originally gifted Mary Margaret by Imerie a week before his first race in 2016. The deal back then was if Courkamp could get Mary Margaret back down to his trailer before any of the other runners and burros, he could take her home. “I drug her, drug her, drug her a while,” Courkamp recalled. “And all of a sudden, she just took off running on me. We flew all the way down Mosquito Pass where we had my trailer. I threw her in the back, we came back a week later and unloaded her and ran her to the top, and turned around and won it.” Ever since, Courkamp and Mary Margaret are together from April or May of each spring through October or November of each autumn, running together two to three times each week. It’s that routine connection that Courkamp says separates him from other elite runners who’ve been humbled by burros at past races. “The donkey is a true equalizer,” Courkamp said. “A lot of times you’ll lead them and they do not want to go very fast. And you are tugging on ‘em, and tugging on ‘em. But when things come around and it works, right then you get behind them and they lead. “And that’s fun.” Continued from B-3 enough to get themselves into a position where it’s not going to hurt,” Normal said. He also said not to discount local and regional climbers who enter the competition on a whim. “You never know who is going to come out of these open qualifiers and take these pros to task,” he said. above the pool, and knows, if they miss it, they are air-aware How to watch The qualifying round on Friday is free to attend, as is the seeding round on Saturday morning at 11 a.m.; the finals are not. Tickets for the finals, which start at 7 p.m. will go for $25 for general admission, which grants access to the observation deck and the grassy hills around the pool, and $60 for the pool deck itself and the closest bleachers. Doors open for the finals at 6 p.m., the event is scheduled to finish around 9:30 p.m. Continued from B-1 player will be placed on a team and will receive a uniform, coach, and a ticket to a Real Monarchs game. The league starts on Aug. 20 and runs through Oct. 13. For more information, visit basinrecreation.org to register or call 435-655-0999. ANTONIO OLIVERO Summit Daily News SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. -- Kirt Courkamp and Mary Margaret will stick together for one more week, at least. Entering this summer’s 70th annual World Championship Pack Burro race in Fairplay, 56-year-old ultra-runner Courkamp came off of another spring and summer during which he lived with and took care of Mary Margaret. She’s a burro gifted to him by the legendary, late Curtis Imrie, who’s regarded as “the dean of Colorado burro racing” and died at the age of 70 a yearand-a-half ago. Over the past three years, Courkamp and Mary Margaret have spent months living together at Courkamp’s home in Pine. The distance runner is experienced in 100-mile long ultra races and has added pack burro racing to his list of annual endeavors. With his victory in the 29mile long course at the annual Fairplay Burro Days this weekend, Courkamp has now won the event three years in a row. Eighty nine runners took part in the event between the short and long course races, an all-time record. Courkamp’s victory also means his handing over of Mary Margaret to Lindsey Lighthizer — Imerie’s life partner — is delayed a week. That’s because Lighthizger and Courkamp struck a deal entering this summer’s “Triple Crown” of Pack Burro racing — the three consecutive weekends of racing in Fairplay, Leadville and Buena Vista. “Lindsey agreed to let me go ahead and run Mary Margaret last year and again this year,” Courkamp said. “But this year, the deal is, if I lose, I give her back because Lindsey wants to run her. “So now I get to run her next week at the Leadville race.” If Fairplay has been the Psicobloc coming to the UOP Sports briefs BASIC SKATING CAMP KIDS FITNESS CLASSES Kids Fit Classes at Silver Mountain Sports Club run every Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the Prospector location. The events are free for members or $10 for non-members. On July 31 the club will host a strength class. Kids Fit Classes will run through Aug. 21. PRE- AND POSTNATAL YOGA As part of a workshop designed for new and expecting moms, pre- and postnatal yoga is designed to promote mindfulness, movement and meditation. Classes run Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m. at the PC MARC. Sign up for the whole session or drop in to individual sessions. Newborns are welcome. Register at parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-6155401 for additional information. BASIN RECREATION FALL SOCCER Basin Recreation’s fall soccer is a recreational soccer league designed for boys and girls in preschool through ninth grade. Each Ice skaters at least four years of age and of all skill levels are invited to attend Park City Ice Arena’s basic skating camp from July 30 to Aug. 3, 9 a.m. to noon. Skaters should have some experience skating, whether it be group skating classes, private lessons or recreational experience and should be able to skate on their own can comfortably without assistance. This camp has a recreational focus. The camp costs $210. To register call 435-6155707 or visit parkcityice.org. PC MARC SWIM LESSONS The PC MARC is offering swimming lessons on weekday evenings and Saturdays for children ages 6 months to 12 years old. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5401 for details. SWIM LESSONS AT SILVER MOUNTAIN Registration for summer swim lessons at Silver Mountain Sports Club is now open. Classes are available for all abilities, including parent-child lessons and private lessons. All lessons are held at the club’s Prospector location. Non-members are welcome. Con- tact Silver Mountain Sports Club Aquatics at 435-649-6670 ext. 107 or email swim@SilverMountainSpa.com. JIU JITSU BJJ Revolution Team Jiu Jitsu is offered on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Silver Mountain Sports Club in Prospector. Group and private lessons are available in Brazilian jiu jitsu, and “Nogi” submission grappling for sport, self-defense, and fitness purposes. Sessions are available for children and adults starting at $100 per month. Contact 435-714-0321 or sign up at Silver Mountain Sports Club, 2080 Gold Dust Lane in Prospector. BEACH POOL OPEN Silver Mountain Sports Club’s beach entry pool with water slide and lazy river are open daily, and are accessible without a membership. Punch passes are available. The pool is open from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays until 8 p.m. SILVER MOUNTAIN SUMMER MEMBERSHIPS Silver Mountain Sports Club family summer memberships are available from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Summer memberships grant pool access, including a water slide, lazy river, poolside grill, kids castle and muscle beach. The summer membership also includes use of both club locations and all fitness classes. Call 435-649-6670 for inquiries or visit SilverMountainSportsClub.com. |