bfisk's crazy days

today was the mt. evans hill climb. (click for the history) just like last year i brought my camera along for the ride. here are some pictures from the race.

pre-race ritual, getting stuck in your bib shorts.

sparky had an incident with scissors and ended up needing a lot of band aids. she later blamed her performance on the loss of blood before the race.

syrae and her vintage phone (remember last weekend) were at the race volunteering and cheering.

getting ready to start the race. those two look uptight with their arms crossed and all.

i made the mistake of going hard at the beginning with a bunch of really skinny, little teeny tiny 5' 2" tall girls, and paid for it later. this is a shot of noel, (i don't really know her at all, but she's from grand juction and is very little as you can tell from the towering camera angle, she has no idea i took this, i am just that stealth.) i was able to hang onto her until a mile or two before summit lake. (which, by the way, is a stupid name for that lake because it is not at the summit)

then she rode me off of her wheel.

the view from the top.

once you get to the top and you have no oxygen you start talking and moving real slowly. i think lisa asked me if i rode my horse to the top or something like that and it made complete sense to me. another example of stupidity at 14,000 ft is a guy asked me what time our race started and i stared at him for about 30 seconds and then said 10 o'clock (which was about an 1 hour and 20 minutes off). we were all pretty messed up.

i got a ride home and i was freaking out about the cliff on my side of the car.

luckily i spotted flight for life and felt a smidgen better about rolling thousands of feet down a steep cliff.

this pic just shows you how narrow the road is with the cliff on the right. i guess we made it down though cause i am here to blog about the events.

results are here.