Year's Goals

Well one of my years goals was to run Leadville and finish.  I had some ups and downs in my training and running.  As Leadville quickly approached I have to admit I had a couple doubts as to the outcome.  We went to Colorado about 12 days before the race and two days after I arrived I still had trouble breathing and running.  After about 7 days I started to feel "normal" and the running got easier. 

The day of the race came very eary!   4am is still 4am.   I was excited and nervous but bascially ready to go.  I threw up about 3 times on the walk to the start .......nerves!   But it was cool to see so many good runners and the whole show that was going on.

I won't go into all the bloody details of the race but it was probably the hardest thing I have ever done.  I was very happy to finish in 29 hours and 31 minutes and 4 secs.  The course was hard and I was very very happy to be done and very tired.