Mike Garrison
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Personal Summary
Married to my tough and beautiful wife Cristal, one stepdaughter, KayLeigh.
Always striving to push my limits and see how good my best is.
- Professional Experience
- Current Director of Operations/Engineering: Remco Products Corporation
- 3 ½ years, Product Development: Cook Incorporated
- Undergraduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Athletic Summary
- Amateur athlete since my first mini-marathon in 1998
- Adventure Racing
- 2009 Planet Adventure Sprint, (1st Coed, 2nd Overall)
- 2009 LBL Challenge 24Hr, (5th Coed, 5th Overall)
- 2008 PA Sprint Redux
- 2008 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (1st Coed, 4th Overall)
- 2008 PA Urban Sprint (2nd Coed, 2nd Overall)
- 2008 Infiterra Adventure Rage 30 hr (7th)
- 2008 Odyssey Wild, Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (4th overall)
- 2007 PA Urban Sprint; Indianapolis, IN (2nd coed, 2nd overall)
- 2007 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (1st premier)
- 2007 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Tell City, IN (5th co-ed,7th overall)
- 2007 Sunflower 24 hr; Lawrence, KS (13th overall)
- 2006 Adventure Rage 30Hr; Cadillac, MI (8th overall)
- 2006 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 15-Hr; (1st Male, 4th Overall)
- 2006 PA Sprint; Brown County, IN (2nd co-ed, 3rd overall)
- 2006 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Leavenworth, IN (17th overall)
- 2005 Indianapolis Adventure Race (2nd Division, 3rd Overall)
- 2005 PA Sprint; Valley Branch, IN (2nd Division, 5th Overall)
- 2004 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis (10th division)
- 2004 PA Sprint; Clark State Forest, IN (1st Division, 2nd Overall)
- 2004 PA 24 Hr Challenge; Owen-Outman Counties, IN (15th Overall)
- 2003 Midwest Fury; French Lick, IN (1st overall)
- 2003 Wild Scallion; Chicago (10th Division)
- 2003 Indianapolis Adventure Race; Long Course (10th Overall)
- 2003 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis
- 2003 Benchmark Appalachian; Portsmouth, OH (2nd Division, 18th Overall)
- Orienteering & Rogaines
- 2009 Conquer the Crossroads Rogaine, (1st, 6hr course)
- 2006 ICO 12 Hour Rogaine - Brownstown, IN (4th overall)
- 2005 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (1st Overall)
- 2004 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (3rd Division, 7th overall)
- 2004 Indianapolis Metrogaine (3 hour)
- Running
- 2007 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
- 2003 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
- 2003 River to River Stage Run (Illinois)
- 2002 Chicago Marathon
- 1998-2005 Indianapolis mini marathon
- Cycling
- 2009 Three State Three Mountain Century; Chattanooga, TN
- 2009 Brown County State Park Road Race
- Other
- Downhill skiing since 1990
- Climbing and mountaineering since 1992
- Plans for 2009?
- Race!
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
More course notes for PA 2009...
Following are some scouting notes from course designer John McInnes...
May 3, 2009 Old School Scouting Report
I hope this message finds you doing well. It was a very fun and wet weekend scouting the Old School Course. I was thinking that with about 90% of the course in the books, this weekend’s work would be primarily for tying up loose ends and just making sure everything fit together the way we wanted it to. Well, I was wrong about that. It seems that every time I pre-run another section of the course I find 2 or 3 cool things that I want to include. So now we are faced with the task of cutting out really cool parts of the course so that I can include some even cooler stuff. Maybe we should just make this a 3 day race….that work for everyone? Just kidding.
I hope that everyone is honing their navigation skills. The course is shaping up with some fantastic trekking with great route choices and opportunities for decision making. The trekking sections are very rugged and I must admit that I succumbed to a nearly tragic ankle torqueing episode. The navigation does not end with the trekking. Expect navigational challenges both on the bike and in the boat.
Old school teams – make sure that you are working on your ascending skills. You will need them
May 3, 2009 Old School Scouting Report
I hope this message finds you doing well. It was a very fun and wet weekend scouting the Old School Course. I was thinking that with about 90% of the course in the books, this weekend’s work would be primarily for tying up loose ends and just making sure everything fit together the way we wanted it to. Well, I was wrong about that. It seems that every time I pre-run another section of the course I find 2 or 3 cool things that I want to include. So now we are faced with the task of cutting out really cool parts of the course so that I can include some even cooler stuff. Maybe we should just make this a 3 day race….that work for everyone? Just kidding.
I hope that everyone is honing their navigation skills. The course is shaping up with some fantastic trekking with great route choices and opportunities for decision making. The trekking sections are very rugged and I must admit that I succumbed to a nearly tragic ankle torqueing episode. The navigation does not end with the trekking. Expect navigational challenges both on the bike and in the boat.
Old school teams – make sure that you are working on your ascending skills. You will need them
Labels: pa242009
posted by Garrison at
11:50 AM
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
PA Scouting
John's had some really good ideas to add some challenge to this race that I think the racers are really going to dig. At least they will when it's all over and they look back on what they have accomplished!
If anyone is on the fence about this race I think they should pull the trigger and sign up. Whether it's the standard "24" course or the jumbo sized "Old School" course, this is going to be a race that people don't want to miss!
On a possibly unrelated note, I really like climbing. I'm not talking about rock climbing, (although I do really enjoy that as well, it's just not the topic of my current train of thought), but rather any situation where you propel yourself "up". Could be on a bike or on foot. There's just something about it that I really dig...
Labels: pa242009
posted by Garrison at
1:23 PM
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