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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Leadville 100 I think it was my very first night in Denver that the Hyena and I first heard about the Leadville 100. My mom's cousin with whom we were staying had his girlfriend over. She had run the race before and was preparing to run it again if I recall correctly. The race is 100 miles long, starts and ends above 10,000 feet above sea-level, and is high-altitude all the way. There are numerous checkpoints along the way and if you don't hit the cutoff time for each point, you're out. The entire 100 miles must be completed in 30 hours. A local writer introduced his story this way: When the sun rises today, I'll be running. When it sets tonight, I'll be running, and when it rises tomorrow, still running.They ran the race this weekend. 400 people started, but fewer than half finished. The author of the above article made it as did Aron Ralston, the guy who had to chop off his own arm last year after getting it stuck under a boulder. The winner set a new course record. The second place finisher will run his 4th 100 mile race of the year in just three weeks. The story of this race is just all about super-human feats of strength and endurance: beyond Olympian. |
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