Joe Van De Water
Age: 45
Running since: high school cross country and track (30+ years)
Race: 4-5 ultras per year; 10 races a year including shorter runs, swims and triathlons
Weekly Mileage: 40-50 maintain; 80-90 at peak
Favorite race: Miwok
Favorite shoe: Train in Hoka; race in Saucony Kinvara
Favorite distance: 100k
Preferred terrain: up hill, single track
Best performance: 3:48 at Way Too Cool 2012
Bucket list race: Wasatch or Hardrock; Ironman Kona
Favorite Beer: Lagunitas Sucks
If I wasn’t running, I’d be: taking up mountain biking – I just love the trails
Favorite aid station meal: hamburger or burrito with beer at the finish; but on the course – chicken soup and ginger ale, easy on the stomach calories, warm at night, and lots of salt
What do you do in real life? Whatever the 3 girls in my life tell me to do (wife and 2 daughters); between family outings and runs, I can be found working at Intel Corp.