Other Summer Plans

This summer my son and I are planning to climb a couple of 14ers in Colorado. Plans are to go out, stay a few days with friends in Denver and acclimate a bit, then a couple of days with freinds in Grand Lake and then attact a couple of mountains. We have not decided which one yet, but here are a few of our possiblities.

Quandary Peak in the Ten Mile range.

Mount of the Holy Cross, not far from Vail.

Combination of Grays and Torreys, the closest 14ers to Denver.

Uncompahgre Peak Colorado, the 6th highest mountain in Colorado and one of 54 14ers.

Good times with my son and I am looking forward to it.

Middle of May

Well the finger is on the mend, it is amazing how much it put a damper on my running. Every time that I ran it felt as though my heart had moved to my finger and was just pounding away. It also looked pretty silly to run with my hand up in the air above my heart, I think cars kept thinking I was flagging them down. I am sure I will suffer more than anticipated at Andy Payne Marathon, but heck that is so much of the enjoyment, plus getting to see a good group of tatur.org runners.

Looking ahead after Andy Payne, the schedule looks like: Tatur Estim8tur, Barkely Book Fair, Turkey and Taturs 50k, FlatRock 50k, Heartland 50m. I am looking forward to going longer (100m) after Heartland, just depends on scheduling. I am visiting about a potential job change that would certainly lend itself to better running...no shift work and weekends off, just don't know that I can co-exist with the normal people that work straight days.

Here is a favorite quote that I really try to live by, take courage and step out:

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort- Sydney Smith

ER Part II

They say trouble comes in 3's...I really don't believe it, but just to be safe I am going to lay low for a couple of weeks. This is the second trip to the ER in about a month, the first for my son and the second for me. Conduit hanger versus finger and sharp metal won this time and I suspect every time. Nothing like spending Sunday evening in the ER. Wildest thing we saw there was a 3 year old that had a huge treble hook stuck in his foot, it looked like a prop for a movie it was so big. He was going to have to go for surgery because the hook got a bone in his foot, he was a little trooper though.

It had been a good weekend of running and I hope this doesn't slow me down 3 weeks out from the Andy Payne marathon. Saturday a comfortable 9 miles and Sunday after church another 12. Really looking forward to getting back out there and running.

That's Going To Leave A Mark

This is a trail running NO-NO. Actually this is my son's ankle following a skateboard aerial trick gone bad. He landed just wrong and seperated a sub-bone in his foot, didn't actually break anything. I pulled out the cell phone in the ER because I knew he would want to see what it looked like at some point in the future. Oh to be young and to heal fast, he was in a cast for 4 weeks and doing some physical therapy now and will soon be back to full strength and back to the skateboarding, man I wish he would take up a safe hobby like trail running/ultramarathoning. He really has expressed interest in trail running and I hope he will take it up some day. Here is hoping you never look down at your foot after a misstep or slip and find a sight like this.