Ragar Relay

Starting Line, Logan, UT

Having had a week's rest to forget the more painful moments I've deicded to post a few pictures from the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay. Note this is not the same as the Wasatch 100 - here we run in teams and on roads (vs by your self and on trails) Race was Logan to Park city via, ... well about every small community you'd forgotten about which has Wasatch mountains to the west. Logan, Liberty, Snowbasin, Mountain Green, Oakley, Kamas, Heber, Park City
team Human Test Subjects, "downwind of Dugway since 2008" (all employees of Dugway Proving Ground) finished in a respectable 31:25:50.8 (yes, that would be over a day) for the 188 mile race. As runner #2 I ran 13 miles, split as 6.9, 3,3.3. First leg went fairly well, went out to fast and ended up walking a hill with some sweet wheezing. My IT band decided that it did such a good job in it's SLC Marathon 2008 appearance that it wanted in on the action so I limped my way from the Junction in Mountain Green to the pass under I-84 for leg number 2. Several kids with a hose along the route provided some nice cooling. Then it was into the darkness as I cheered on my teammates in our bid to East Canyon Dam and Exchange 18. As van #1 we got some nice sleep between midnight and 5:30am. I fell asleep in the van which meant when I was woken up in the morning by my cell phone (other van saying they were 30 min out) I had no idea where I was (answer, somewhere in Oakley) Survived my last leg out of Oakley with less knee pain than expected.

Net result - it's definitly on my list for next year!!

Summer vacation plans...

I'll be going here:

for two weeks in August. It will be fun.

New Hampshire Rockwalling

Here are some photos from a recent Rockwaller reunion expedition in New Hampshire. Bobby made the trip east, and Will came down from Canada, to celebrate Robert and Margaret's nuptials. Since they came all that way, I took them up the standard route on Whitehorse Ledge in North Conway.

Setting off from the hotel parking lot.

Bobby, Cadel, Stacey, and Crowder at the bottom of the slab.

Here's our climbing team at the lunch ledge about halfway up. Bobby's enjoying a mid-climb stogie.

Here's the view from halfway. You can see Mt. Cranmore's ski trails and Echo Lake, where Stacey, Cadel, and Crowder went for the afternoon.

Here is Bobby leading the pirate pitch, scrambling over the windward rail with a draw between his teeth.

I won the race, but Bobby and Will sprinted it out for second place.

And they're off.

Will stumbles and Bobby takes an early lead.

Will can't make up the deficit and Bobby wins!

Smiles all around. We built, I mean climbed the 1000' wall in just over 3 hours.

The route roughly follows the whitish stripes alllll the way up.

Everyone enjoyed the beautiful day in the mountains.

rockwallers HUP

Justin and I (Will) are signed up for the double-single category. Apparently there is stiffer competition than in previous years. I hope to not repeat the event of signing-up-then-not-training-then-epicing situation from Elk Mountain.

So I ride...