peer pressure

leadville was awesome. i'm not sure i can express the awesomeness in words, so here is more of the trip in pictures (with captions):

view down the street from our rental house

home in leadville for the weekend

fred and cindy on the bus to the start of the 26-mile saturday run (all were still smiling afterward too...)

trail up the twin lakes side of hope pass (12,600 ft elevation)...if you see dots in the distance that look like people, they are in fact people.

trail near the top of hope pass. yep, we had to run through snow.

the top of hope pass = two thumbs up...sunday was a 21 mile run that went over this twice. each side had ~3000ft of climbing.

me, dan, tom, jack, donna and dave on top of a mountain during the sunday run.

view from the top of mt. sanitas (boulder) where we ran on monday morning.

moral of the story: i was peer pressured by people i didn't even know (in addition to the ones i did) to sign up for the race. so i did.