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Sent: Monday, May 04, 1998 10:35 PM Subject: Incline V2 TH #5 LR #25 Let me apologize right off the top for the tone of this letter but I am a little upset! 1) This is what I wrote last week: Also, this may be our first encounter with the COG train itself. Be looking for it and when you see it GET OFF THE TRACKS!!! No joke here — act like they will kill you if they see you (they will not) and move off into the trees. Do not run until they get close and then get off the tracks — be pro active and just use it as an excuse to take a break:-) 2) This is the report that I got from a neighbor who works on the COG: “I heard the whole thing on the radio. A couple of your friends were not getting off the tracks until a couple hundred yards and this really upsets the engineers.” 3) This is what one Incline Club member wrote to me: “I got about 20 feet off the track while the rail car was still a good 50 - 80 yards away. As the car passed, the cars operator was yelling at me “You people better stay off these tracks, they are private property. You are going to get caught at the bottom...” Sure enough — every car within a 1 mile radius of the COG depot got a nice little “STAY OFF THE TRACKS” notice! I will not mention names but obviously I know who one person is and I have a good ideal who else might have done this. THIS IS A TRAIN PEOPLE!!! YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS LETTING IT GET SO CLOSE!!! I said be pro-active and try not to even let them see you on the tracks!!! I can not make it any clearer can I? The conductors and engineers know me and it reflects on me when someone upsets them by trying to squeeze a few extra minutes of running into their workout. Think about it this way: The COG train travels at 10mph — a 6 minute mile — and 100 yards goes by in 22 seconds at that pace and we already have someone admitting that they got off the tracks with only 50 — 80 yards left! What if you fall or for that matter how does a conductor even know if you know he is there? RULES RULES RULES!!! 1) WE WILL NO LONGER BE OFFICIALLY RUNNING ON THE COG AS THE INCLINE CLUB! Because this run is too important to me and a couple of yim yams can’t stand to lose 5-10 MINUTES (not seconds) COG loop Sundays will now be Barr Camp (A-frame once more snow melts) up\back runs. Soon when even more snow melts — if it ever does — we will be starting almost all our Sunday runs at Elk Park on the Pikes Peak Highway. 2) I do not care if it is OK to park by the COG depot next to the wall. If you want to run with this club DO NOT PARK ANYWHERE NEAR THE COG depot — let COG customers have those OK spots!!! Park at either the Barr Trail trail-head parking lot or BELOW the fountain by Spring Street. 3) The meeting spot for ALL runs EXCEPT the Incline run itself will be the fountain by Spring Street. The meeting spot for the Incline run will be at the bottom of the Incline. Do not hang around in the parking lots any more — PERIOD! Now that we have over 60 people on the e-mailing list and some of our runs are getting more than 20 people we are going to have to start being a little more careful. *********** This Thursday the 7th at 5:30 pm. 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy from Hydro Street to No Name Creek or 30 minutes or whichever comes first. MEET AT THE FOUNTAIN BY SPRING STREET! This Sunday the 10th at 8:00 am. The Ute Loop. MEET AT THE FOUNTAIN BY SPRING STREET! Go out hard, when it hurts speed up... Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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