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Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 8:31 AM Subject: Incline Club V3 TH #5 LR #24 Special request from Friends of the Peak: This Saturday, May 8th, at 8 a.m. the Friends of the Peak are doing Barr Trail re-vegetation on the first couple of miles from the trail-head. I have been asked to recruit “water runners” for the project. If you could come out and run up gallon jugs of water to the volunteers doing the planting it would be a big help. Despite all the rain we have had the stuff they plant will die without being watered at the time of the planting. This will be a fun time and 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 etc. water trips can get your mileage done for the day. Please consider this an Incline Club event and a “V” for volunteer will be given on the long run board. Out of fairness however it will not count in the rankings as I do not want you to feel like you have to do this. But you will be a really good person and you will sleep very well at night knowing that you helped. **** On that note for those that do not know about the Friends of the Peak they are the people who do most of the work on the Barr Trail. You can support the organization by becoming a member for only $10 per year. The most immediate benefit to you is that you will then get $5 off your Peak Pass which will need to be renewed soon anyway as we get ready to go sledding, I mean running, on the top part of the mountain hopefully by June. Hint Hint: consider becoming a member of FOTP. You can sign up here: http://www.skyrunner.com/fotp.htm. Look for membership information. Also you will see a list of season projects that go into more detail about all the FOTP projects in addition to the one this Saturday. Disclaimer: I build and host their www pages as a donation, otherwise I am not affiliated with nor do I receive anything form FOTP. Well, actually I do get better trails on the Peak so I guess I do get something but not because I host their pages. I am sure you get what I am trying to say here. I just think that this is a great organization that directly effects our enjoyment of the peak. **** Thursday, May 6th 5:30 p.m. meet at the base of the Incline. Park by the Fountain on Spring Street 1/4 mile down Ruxton from the COG RR depot. The Incline — using handicaps. Run back down the Barr Trail and then do four to six Hydro Street hill repeats. Saturday, May 8th 8:00 a.m. meet in the Barr Trail parking lot. See above for details. Sunday, May 9th 8 a.m. meet by the Fountain on Spring Street 1/4 mile down Ruxton from the COG RR depot. Run up to Barr Camp and then over to the Severy Creek Trail intersection on Elk Park Trail and back then head back down. 3:00 to 4:00 depending on speed. If the snow gets too deep we will run down and head up to Cave of the Winds and back to add some time. **** WWW Post: 5/2/99 29 people and 4 dogs ran in the deep stuff today. Many of us took a very long and steeeeep route to the upper trail of Waldo Canyon. Once we got to the trail it was not a whole lot better and made for some slow going. The stream crossings were more like river crossings and more than a few did the big splash. Despite all this it was rather fun to go out and play around in the first real snow of the year. 4/29/99 Only 11 people braved the rain today. It has been non-stop for about 20 hours now — the creeks look like rivers. We did a slightly different protocol today for the 30 minutes of 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy. During the easy minutes we ran part way back down so we would never get up to where the snow starts. This made for a much tougher workout because we would start each one with more people. Despite the rain we also still did the 5 Hydro Street hill repeats. Club records: # of dogs on a run: 7 # of people to show for breakfast: 25 # of people on the Incline: 23 # of long runs in a row — Glen Ash: 24 <-- in trouble:-) # of people to show for breakfast: 25 # of people on a Thursday: 27 # of people at a party: 30 # of people on a Sunday: 39 # of members in a race — Pikes Peak A & M: 44 # on e-mailing list: 122 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 www.skyrunner.com
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