180 Energy Runner Zac Freudenburg, record holder in the GO! St. Louis Marathon, qualified for the U.S. Mountain Running Team on Sunday by finishing second in the Cranmore Hill Climb, North Conway, N.H. The top three finishers earned a spot on the team, which will represent the U.S. at the World Mountain Running championships in Italy in September.

The race consisted of two 5.8K laps up and down the mountain. The course is a mixture of single track, grass ski slope and double-wide cat track. Each lap included a gain of 1,200 feet in elevation.

Jeff Bockhorn, captain of the 180 Energy Runners, reported that Freudenburg said he had no idea of his finishing time.

“I didn’t care about the time,” Bockhorn reported Freudenburg as saying. “I didn’t even wear a watch.”

Freudenburg is a native of Belleville who finished third in the 2006 World Mountain Running Championships, held at Pikes Peak. Unlike the rest of his teammates, Freudenburg does not train at altitude. Instead, he has worked on earning his Ph.D. in computer science at Washington University. This spring, he set the course record in the GO! marathon, 2:23:47. He also won the University City Memorial Day 10K, pushing a stroller that contained his five-month-old son, Liam.