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Leadville 100 Training weekend

Today John Courtney and I ran from Twin Lakes to Winfield and back over Hope Pass, about 20 miles. The "official" Leadville Training Weekend ran from Winfield to Hope Pass and returned to Winfield because there was "too much snow" on the north slopes of Hope Pass. We say it wasn't so bad....


John Courtney and last year's winner of the Leadville Trail 100, Anton Krupicka. Anton was returning from the Twin Lakes side for his second ascent of Hope Pass as we came down Hope Pass for the second time....

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Transitional Fossils II

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Transitional Fossils I

Ran to the summit of Pikes Peak this morning before work. Saw five bighorn sheep. 18 miles running starting at 3 A.M.

14 June, Hatfield-McCoy Marathon

Getting from Colorado to the race start in Williamson, WV was at least as tiring as the actual running of the race. With plane tickets into Charleston, WV @ $650 I finally settled on spending 50,000 of my Skymiles to get there. When I arrived at the COS airport Friday morning at 0700 I learned the first leg to Chicago (ORD) was delayed four hours and had to change to a flight to DED then ORD. In ORD the next flight kept getting delayed until finally it loaded up five hours after my arrival, after which we sat on the tarmac for a couple more hours due to thunderstorms all up and down the east coast. I finally arrived at Charleston at 7:30 PM, picked up a rental car (which I had mistakenly reserved for the day before--which cost me $65 for the extra day -- I'll never use Hotwire again), and drove frantically to Williamson to make the 9 PM deadline for packet pickup. Made it with five minutes to spare and they still gave me a wonderful pasta dinner that was included with the entry fee.

Next morning the forecast was for thunderstorms, but they didn't materialize and I only got rained on for the last two miles and by that time it was a welcome relief from the humidity.

The course was on lush green back country roads with minimal traffic. The crux of the race was an 850' hill that climbed from mile 7.5 to mile 8.5 after which we promptly lost all the elevation we had gained in about a mile and a half. At the half-way point we crossed the river and ran into a small village and turned around and came back over the river and continued the course along the Kentucky side of the river. Here I was able to see everyone from the race leader to those as far as four minutes behind me. I was in fifth at this point. I ran alone all the way to about mile 24 when I heard what I thought was a wild boar snorting in the woods. When I looked back it turned out to be a middle-aged runner. I talked myself into thinking he was in his mid-40's as he trotted past me. Later I found out he was 55! I won my age group (50-54) though. 6th overall.

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Tonight I watched a bit of C-Span testimony on the ignominious torture hearings by the House Judicial Committee. The honorable Lawrence Wilkerson, a true patriot, testified. One statement he gave resonated to the highest mountaintop by the name of Pikes behind my humble dwelling and thence assuredly reverberated across the plains from eastern Colorado all the way to the den of iniquity in D.C. That is, America is only an idea. If we as a nation countenance torture and strip away our rights in the name of "fighting terrorism" then the terrorist have won. America as an idea. It is assuredly not the buildings and the concrete and wheat fields. America is an ideal. The "terrorists" achieve victory when they extinguish the idea that was America. I fear they have already succeeded....

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