Tennyson/TJay Wedding

We traveled up North on I-25 for Tennyson's wedding in Sheridan, Wyoming. TJay is an avid golfer and had planned a golf tornament the day of the wedding, but unfortunately the weather did not cooperate. Kerri, Emily, and I toured around the small town instead.

With the weather at 40 degrees and rainy, Tennyson and TJay were forced to host the wedding under a tent. Tennyson looked beatiful & didn't appear to be affected by the cold weather. It's too bad we didn't get to see the Powder Horn Mountain Range, but everyone had a great time at the wedding and made the best of it.

Colorado Relay

Here is Greg leading us off on the First Leg

Derek ready to run! !
My team Blister Blasters competed in this years Colorado Relay, and ended up WINNING by over 1.5 hours.
This relay consist of 170 miles, 10 runners, 2 vans, 2 volunteers and no sleep.
The route goes from Idaho Springs to Gleenwood Springs.

Start times are based on how fast your team 10k times average are. If you are not very fast at all your start time is 5am, but if most of your team is able to run a faster time you are able to start later in the day. My team consisted of faster runners, so we were able to start at the last wave at 10am.

As it turns out we could have started the relay even later, because we ended up finishing at 5:40am the next day.
Here is Ben doing the last minute details for the relay. Every team needs a sign on the back of van that says "Caution - Runners on Road"






Ben getting ready to run down Guanella Pass.





Andy running up Guanella Pass

Crested Butte

Kerri's friend Elisabeth flew into town from California. The day she arrived, the four of us headed up to Red Rocks for a hike (inluding Punto). The weather was nice and the food & margs at The Morision Inn were tasty.

The next day we left the house around 10:30 and made our four hour journey to Crested Butte. Once we arrived, we met Ben and Solomon at a coffee house in town. We were all tired of being in a car all day long, so we decided to grab something to eat. After we all had our fill we agreed on a general place to go look for a camping location and as you can see from the picture above we found a great spot near a stream with wonderful views.

If you look past my Explorer you can see the mountian that all of us hiked up. Ben and I originally thought that we would be able to climb this mountain in 45 minutes, but as it turns out the hike took us around 2 hours to get to the top. Kerri, Liz and I hiked while Ben ran all the way to the top.
Punto is ready to go run.

Here is Solomon enjoying the sun.