Alex and Ean - they made this trip happen |
Brian 29, Mindy, Celeste, Ean, Alex, me, and Mary at the end of our epic run |
Mindy, Celeste, Alex, Ean, Mary, Brian 29, and my family all met at the Kenosh Pass campground (between Fairplay and Bailey) on Monday afternoon. We heard stories from Celeste and Mindy's big bike rides the weekend prior, took a walk down the start of Segment 5 of the Colorado Trail, and shared dinner in a low key relaxing evening. Tuesday morning we woke as the sun was just peeking over the horizon and had a trail runner's breakfast of coffee and poptarts. By 6:30 AM we were starting down Segment 6 of the CT.
Beautiful mountains 5 Minutes into the run. This does not suck. |
There were wildflowers everywhere |
Mt. Guyot in the distance |
The trail down off Georgia Pass and down into Breckenridge (which can be seen just to the right of the top of that post) |
Wildflowers on the way down into Breckenridge |
Mary, Celeste, and Me. Photo by Mindy |
And then we met up with Mindy and Ean and the energy level went up 3 notches for the last 10 miles. I'll tell you what, no matter how bad you feel (and for awhile I felt downright bad), you cannot help but smile when your running partners are skipping down the trail singing at the top of their lungs (♫♪ Running on-running on empty, Running on-running blind ♪♫). And smile I did, even when feeling the worst I am smiling in all the pictures. That has to be some sort of metric indicating a good run.
Me having fun - photo by Mary |
Nearly done and all smiles! Photo from Celeste |
I definitely had a blast. What an awesome day and I am so glad you were there to share it. I am already looking forward to out next trip. . .R2R2R in October? Let's start planning.
ReplyDeleteSorry I missed it...looks like you had a blast!! I'm in for R2R2R!
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