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World Run I / ReportsGoto: 2005-05-03 2005-05-05 USA 2005-05-04: 28Distance today: 43.0 km (Accumulated: 21134.0 km) Country: USA 2005.05.04. [Field; brown road sign on Hwy. 1: ?Golden 57km?] - [Cross of Hwy. 1 & Hwy. 93]. (Runner companies all stage: Peter Rietveld). 43km, 4:14:08h. Excl. food, water, road-finding, toilet etc. stops Total 21093km. Start: 10:11am. Finish: 16:51pm. Time GMT - 8 hours +06c, half overcast and light wind at start. 11c and same at finish. - Guest Reporter Peter Rietveld writes: Leaving Nicky and Mike after loads of coffee we now faced our last and highest pass of the Rocky Mountains, 1600 something meters above the highest point in Holland or Denmark for that matter. The up hills sure do their job at my hamstrings and every 30 minutes I lay in some weird yoga postures to keep them long enough to make the legs still bend, while driver passing by look at me as if I were some special road kill. But it works well and this way I came all the way up without major concerns, not counting the looks on Jesper? s face. Up the hill we went and pushed the strollers meter after meter. Quite suddenly we were at a restaurant and a lake very much looking like the pass and we celebrated with pictures of each other and a somehow longer brake. The restaurant was closed and Jesper immediately invited me for breakfast and a beer to commemorate this fourth and last pass. So with an empty stomach and no beer we went further finding out we were not quite yet at the pass since the road stubbornly still went up. Not too bad though and a 15 minutes later we did hit the top. Downhill it went. Soon we were overtaken by a South Korean on a bicycle who voluntarily joined the band and slowed down his cycling. Then our support form Banff showed up and after pushing the strollers for hundreds of Km's now they were put in the van and we were without. Interestingly we changed the side of the road for a different angle of the tarmac, ran slightly faster and in another posture than bend over and within an hour I felt my shin starting to hurt. Such a small change can really hurt the legs bad. We did well and were spoiled all over by this supporting couple, Lorna and Jason, who run the Banff - Calgary airport shuttle They are fantastic support and volunteered to give us this support for a FULL two days and drop us off at the third AND bedding and feeding us for three days. The South Korean, Joseph Jeong, became a part of the team and was welcomed as well. The evening was spend in a hot tub, swimming pool, sauna and steam bath, just fantastic!!!! Couple of beers and the night proved to be very well indeed. Peter |
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