SBVK
Santa Barbara is a magical place. The city is nestled into a small chunk of land between the Santa Barbara channel and the Santa Ynez mountains and you can go from sea level to over 1000 meters in a very short distance. La Cumbre Peak, the highest mountain you see when you look up from Santa Barbara, provides the best view in Santa Barbara. I had this idea of putting a Vertical Kilometer race up La Cumbre stuck in my head.
In March of 2020, the world shut down. Ironically event cancelations turned Santa Barbara VK into a reality.
Using an altimeter app on my phone I walked down Tunnel Road until I was 1000 meters lower than La Cumbre Peak. I found the closest intersection to that point and made that the start line. The course was simple enough - run up Tunnel Road until you get to Tunnel Trail, take that to the road at the top (Camino Cielo), turn left keep going up-hill until you’re at La Cumbre Peak. I made a simple website and Instagram account and mapped out the course on Strava. With little prodding, some friends and their friends went and did the race!
Here are the results from SBVK 2020:
1 - M1 - Jeffrey Stern - Strava - 58:50 - 4/12
2 - M2 - Jared Smith - Strava - 59:26 - 4/18
3 - M3 - Vincent Bouillard - Strava - 1:01:20 - 5/8
4 - M4 - Will Keller - Strava - 1:02:21 - 4/7
5 - M5 - Matt Dubberly - Strava - 1:03:30 - 4/10
6 - M6 - Sergey Zayats - Strava - 1:03:51 - 5/3
7 - M7 - Curly Guillen - Strava - 1:04:05 - 4/12
8 - M8 - Andrew Dixon - Strava - 1:05:03 - 5/8
9 - M9 - Menso de Jong - Strava - 1:06:36 - 4/5
10 - M10 - Cooper Farrell - Strava - 1:07:55 - 4/11
11 - M11 - Kristian Howell - Strava - 1:08:39 - 4/11
12 - M12 - Chris Free - Strava - 1:08:43 - 4/7
13 - F1 - Dani Moreno - Strava - 1:09:43 - 4/11
14 - M13 - José Lopez - Strava - 1:13:42 - 5/8
15 - M14 - Jeffrey Stern - Strava - 1:13:51 - 4/4
16 - M15 - Scott Bauhs - Strava -1:14:27 - 4/19
17 - M16 - Colby Pines - Strava - 1:15:18 - 4/10
18 - M17 - Martin Tanner - Strava - 1:15:55 - 4/4
19 - M18 - Samo Scherzo - Strava - 1:17:28 - 4/20
20 - M19 - Tyler Gordon - Strava - 1:19:54 - 3/28
21 - M20 - Tim VanHaitsma - Strava - 1:20:11 - 4/19
22 - M21 - Michael Lang - Strava - 1:21:15 - 4/18
23 - M22 - Justin Whittet - Strava - 1:22:17 - 4/11
24 - M23 - Justin Greene - Strava - 1:22:53 - 3/28
25 - M24 - Scott Bauhs - Strava -1:23:16 - 3/28
26 - F2 - Savannah Braden - Strava - 1:23:44 - 5/6
27 - M25 - Matt Benson - Strava - 1:24:40 - 4/13
28 - M26 - Brendan Marrow-Jones - Strava - 1:24:46 - 4/16
29 - F3 - Mattie Webb - Strava - 1:26:24 - 5/8
30 - M27 - Samo Scherzo - Strava - 1:26:37 - 4/14
31 - M28 - Brendan Marrow-Jones - Strava - 1:26:46 - 4/19
32 - M29 - Michael Lang - Strava - 1:28:56 - 4/12
33 - M30 - Caleb Bramson - Strava - 1:29:09 - 4/10
34 - F4 - Katrina Miller - Strava - 1:29:36 - 4/11
35 - M31 - Carmelo Gonzales - Strava - 1:29:56 - 4/11
36 - M32 - Brendan Marrow-Jones - Strava - 1:31:39 - 4/12
37 - F5 - Katrina Miller - Strava - 1:32:01 - 4/6
38 - F6 - Devyn Orr - Strava - 1:32:05 - 4/11
39 - M33 - Stephen Searer - Strava - 1:32:26 - 4/13
40 - F7 - Jen Montague Instagram - 1:36:14 - 4/18
41 - F8 - Sophie Starkman - Strava - 1:37:23 - 4/12
42 - F9 - Lisa Blake - Strava - 1:38:00 - 4/3
43 - F10 - Ariel Adams - Strava - 1:41:02 - 4/11
44 - F11 - Amanda Kastelic - Strava - 1:43:23 - 5/8
45 - M34 - Dave Montague - Strava - 1:43:51 - 4/15
46 - F12 - Amanda Kastelic - Strava - 1:46:13 - 4/12
47 - F13 - Molly Troup - Strava - 1:48:08 - 5/8
48 - F14 - Jessica Zacarias - Strava - 1:48:38 - 4/19
49 - M35 - Peter Aster - Strava - 1:48:56 - 4/19
50 - F15 - Whitney Wilkinson - Strava - 1:49:02 - 4/12
51 - F16 - Molly Troup - Strava - 1:49:53 - 5/12
52 - F17 - Elizabeth Alexander - Strava - 1:51:41 - 4/12
53 - M36 - Jon Heildeman - Strava - 1:53:06 - 4/11
54 - F18 - Molly Troup - Strava - 1:57:50 - 4/10
55 - F19 - Christine Raimer - Strava - 2:07:53 - 4/12
56 - F20 - Cassidy Arnold - Instagram - 2:07:53 - 4/12
