Monday, August 18, 2008

Pikes Peak Ascent/Marathon weekend...

Saturday, August 16 - Pikes Peak Ascent:

JQRC manned the Ruxton aid station again this year. It was pretty wet out there this year! Many of the Ascent runners missed the cutoff time to get to A-Frame and were forced to turn around. By doing so, their ~13 mile run turned into an unexpected ~20 miles.



Later that evening, we all met at Paul Niewinski's place for a post-Ascent/Wild West Relay party. The evening started innocently enough with food and Olympics watching--later evolving into beer pong and water guns...







Sunday was the Pikes Peak Marathon. Most of the crew did the Ascent only. Ryan signed up for the double and successfully summited both days. Meanwhile, JT attempted the Leadville 100-mile foot race. He made it 70/100 miles this year. Valiant effort!

Sunday evening JT held a MOPP hash starting at "The Keg" in Manitou. This "hash" really turned out to be a bar crawl since virtually everyone there was involved with some daunting race over the weekend and wasn't in the mood for any more running.

2 comments:

Jes said...

He hared a MOPP hash the same day he was running 100??

More proof that I got the brains in the family...

BLOS said...

Well, call it a hash if you want--more of a pub crawl really! ;) He ain't that dumb--but no doubt your the smarter one!