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Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 3:33 PM Subject: Incline Club V3 LR #12 Howdy all... This Sunday January the 14th at 8 a.m. is my special gift to all of you on Valentines day! The goal for those that wish to take the challenge is a four-peat on the Incline --> 8,000 feet of up, 8,000 feet of down!!! Ohhh you gotta love it:-) Of course there are some of you out there that want no part of this sickness. In that case our regular club run would be up to Barr Camp and then over to the Elk Park clearing and back. The four-peat is only an option!!!!!!!!!!! Please don’t feel you have to write and say “my leg hurts this, I have a race that, or can I just do one, two or three?” Its OK, we understand --> this one is out there on the out there scale! You keep your “I think you are a bunch of stupids”s to yourself and we’ll keep our “boy are we a bunch of stupids”s to ourselves;-) For the rest of us I am not claiming this is going to be easy but I am certain that it will be fun — at least for a while. Word on the street is we are crazy!? But hey, we are used to that aren’t we? What is new is that now we have the distinction of being called crazy by some of our very own club members:-) But hey, once in while it is good to do something a bit gonzo just so the regular sick stuff we do doesn’t seem so bad. Bring your own food, drink or whatever. If everyone who is going for it brings some extra munchies we can make a heck of an aid station out of the back of a truck or something. Keep your stuff in a bag and then add some to the “club pile.” To save a lot of time on the whole affair I recommend at the very least taking the short-cut off of the top of the Incline. To find it, turn left right after you get to the top. There is a trail that takes you way down onto the Barr Trail and will cut perhaps 1 mile off of the trip down. It will also spare the extra uphill that it would take to go the regular way. For those who want even more adventure there is also the possibility of going down the Incline. Either all the way or part of the way by getting on or off the Incline from switch-back #12 of the Barr trail. As for myself I plan to do a combination. I might go down the Barr Trail (via the short-cut) once, down the first half of the Incline once, down only the second half once, and go down it the whole way once. Just depends on how ugly things get. There will be a fine line between saving time by coming down the Incline and killing one’s quads. The trick will be finding out how much damage is done by going down the Incline before the damage gets done:-) **** And then there were 4... Four people are almost halfway to breaking Glen A’s club long run streak record of 24. **** Chris Tschan writes: While I was doing the backside of Waldo last Sunday, I picked up a black right glove with “OR” embroidered on it. Maybe someone in the group dropped it. If you know someone who reportedly lost one, let me know. If I’m there this weekend, I’ll bring it, if not I’ll give it to AnneMarie W. **** Thom Santa Maria writes: I’ve been following the incline club trials and tribulations with envy. Sounds like everyone is having a good time. I miss my long Sunday runs on the Peak, and hopefully, someday I can return. Can you forward this update or pass this info to the club. Benita continues to do fairly well at home. We finally are able to get her to keep some food down and is putting on a little weight, and gaining physical strength. Overall her status has not changed significantly. She still is being fed through the tube in her stomach. She still is not talking nor has regained cognitive and recognition abilities, but physically she is doing great. She walks fairly well with guidance and we get her up in the recliner every night to sit with the family. Things have not settled down here at all, but Benita’s sister, Sylvia and her 2 girls (4 & 5), are staying with us to watch Benita during the day. She is a tremendous help and a Godsend. I couldn’t do this without her. The PPRR continues to cook meals and provide some help Fri — Mon and help from work comes Tues — Thur. The outpouring of love and support from my friends is a wonderful blessing and I could never begin to thank and repay everyone for their help, thoughts, and prayers. Their strength and support have helped me keep things together. I have been running 4-5 days a week, and am feeling pretty good. It would be nice to come out and do the fourpeat. We know what it was like to do a threepeat, this is by no means a walk in the park and not for the weak at heart and soul It should prove interesting to see how many can succeed. Good luck to everyone. Thanks again for everyone’s support and friendship. Do one long run for me and I hope to run with you all again. Keep on keeping on. Your incline club friend, Thom Santa Maria **** www post: 2/7/99 34 people — our second largest group — and 4 K9s headed out the Ute Indian Trail. If I was not there myself I would not have believed it if someone had told me how nice it was for a February day. The perfect conditions also helped a lot of people set some PRs for the killer loop. Not as many were talking about how hard this loop was either. That could be due to the fact that everyone is getting fit or they were talking about next week’s four-peat on the Incline!!! Club records: # of dogs on a run: 6 # of people to show for breakfast: 15 # of people on the Incline: 21 # of long runs in a row — Glen Ash: 24 # of people on a Thursday: 27 # of people at a party: 30 # of people on a Sunday: 35 # of members in a race — Pikes Peak A & M: 44 # on e-mailing list: 103 Incline Club Page: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline.htm Incline Club FAQ: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline_faq.htm Incline Club Mosaic Game: http://www.skyrunner.com/game/mosaic_intro.htm This e-mail: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline_mail.htm **** Go out hard, when it hurts speed up... Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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