The men’s individual course record is Teage O’Conner’s, at 9:23:19 (2008). Hot day, too. Only Tough Enough ultra winner to have also run sub-15 for 5K. (Currently holds the WR for 100K run entirely barefoot, at 7:13.) The women’s individual is Pam Smith’s 12:37:36 (1990).
Men’s team is 6:21: Robert Hollister, Mike Smith, Don Faith, Randy Twing, and Tom Phillips, 1989.
RUTE Beer takes the mixed record, 7:02, led by Jill Himlan, with Gene Deering, Tyler Hansen, Annie O’Donnell, and Marcedo Mejia. An asterisk, as the course was roughly a mile shorter than normal. Time is better than (but not by much) the previous record. Superfriends ran 7:10 in 2012 (Ricky Ho, Chrystee Bradley, Tim Strand, Mike Shaloob, and Andrea Schettler).
The women’s record is 7:36, 2010, TUFF LUV: Drea Schettler, Michelle McToldridge, Chrystee Bradley, Kary O’Brien. Only four women: a drop at 5:15 am race-day morning, also an event record. (Honorable mention to Hills +/- One, 4:45 am.)
Three-person men’s team record to Fugawi!?! at 7:06 (2014).
Two-person mixed team record (new course in ’22): Ex’s and O’s, Rachel Entrekin & Ian Seabury, 8:44. Ian pointed out that wearing his TE17 Toad&Co sport shirt was key to excellent performance.
Hall of Fame 1: Sara Kida, 33 weeks pregnant (roughly eight months).
Hall of Fame 2: Luis Escobar. One year he and Mauricio ‘picked up’ a dog a little before the Gun Club on W Camino Cielo. The dog had escaped its enclosure; when Luis phoned, the owner was angry at him, presumably for bothering him, and claimed the dog would return on its own. No. The very-happy-to-run dog accompanied them for the last 30-35 miles, finishing cheerfully and seemingly none the worse for wear. (Luis and Mauricio had made sure she/he had water.) Luis, having run 65 miles, and living in Santa Maria, drove the dog back to where it had joined them—at least an extra hour of driving—prior to getting to go home.
Santa Barbara Tough Enough 