WHS math teacher wins 100 mile race

Rob Landauer, a Math teacher at WHS, likes to run – a lot. There are long distance bike trips and other events but the latest is something that is incomprehensible and a feat that is to be marveled at, one hundred miles on foot in 18 hours.

“I did better than expected. I knew I had an outside chance to win this thing, if I did it in under 20 hours,” Rob Landauer, said about the Cactus Rose 100 mile race in Bandera.

The course is four laps of twenty-five miles each. The participants are given time before the race to stock aid stations with fresh clothes, food, drinks, sunscreen, eye drops for use at night and Vaseline to help with the chafing that comes from traveling 100 miles on foot.

His father, Tim, was his pit crew, making sure his son had what he needed at the five mile rest stops. His father drove and took naps between each station. “I finished in under 18 hours, 17:48… the next finisher was at 20:17,” he said.

After the race, they had planned on staying in a hotel in Boerne, but after they arrived, they realized they both were wide-awake and drove all the way back to Wimberley, about a twohour trip.

But when they got home, it finally happened. “It hit both of us at once. We hit Fischer and collapsed… I woke at 7 a.m. and then hung out, mostly eating tacos and nachos, hanging out with a buddy of mine.”

He received numerous awards for finishing first and one for finishing under 21 hours, with three others. The three others were sponsored, while Rob competed as an amateur. The race and finish was a pretty remarkable achievement.

Here’s Rob Landauer’s official times:

1st place by a 2.5-hour margin

Total time: 17:48:10

~12,000 feet of elevation gain

10:41 average mile pace

2nd-fastest time ever on the course

His website and journal entries about the race can be found at his website located at PackJournal.com/Coyote.