Montrail Team Canada

Current Hometown: North Vancouver, British Columbia

Favorite Sports Team: University of Michigan Football

Other Sports or Activities You Enjoy: rock climbing, slacklining, baseball

Real (Primary) Job: Kintec Footlabs

Best Trail Running Memory of 2009: Running the Timberline Trail (40 miles) circumnavigating Mount Hood.  Sunny, blue skies, great views, camped at 6000’ night before and saw a billion stars, killer sunrise, killer sunset, just an epic day.

Favorite Trail Ultra: Chuckanut 50k and Run for the Toad 50k.  Both have great RD’s passionate about trail running and a great sense of camaraderie / trail community at them.

Beer or wine: Beer (Rolling Rock)

Trail Shoe of choice and why: Mountain Masochist.  It’s incredibly flexible and responsive to transition from road to trails but protects my feet on the knarliest of technical North Shore Trails.

Objective #1 for 2010: Leadville 100 miler sub 18hrs.  

Best race in 2009: Mt. Si 50 miler.  Won in 6:17 when I should have been having surgery to fix some bum ligaments in my knee!

Person Who Has Influenced You Most: Too many to single out just one.  David Horton, Monica Scholz, Odino Soligo, Don McNelly, Norm Frank, Wally Herman to name a few

When I’m Not Running I Prefer to: Facebook or watch movies

If A Genie Would Grant Me One Wish: a lifetime supply of free Coconut Water

When in Need of Rest and Relaxation I: Run

Personal Website/Blog: http://runemelcher.blogspot.com/