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RRR100 day - power-hike with KRW

September 16, 2016 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 50F, dark

Comments:
Up early to get KRW to town for the start. It was chilly! He looked like he was RTG and was off and "hiking" up the ski hill at 0800.

After that:
- CA and I went for breakfast at Creekside in Steamboat. REALLY good.
- Coffee at another place
- drove up to the mile 17 AS, and watched Kelly run back into town
- drove to a ski jump place in town, "Olympian", which was a double AS. He was doing pretty well there, so we went to Cow Creek, the next AS

Cow Creek was a major AS, as the runners left town, climbed a shit load in exposed terrain in the middle of the day, then descended on this aid...going like TWELVE miles without aid.

...and it was a clusterfuck. After relaxing in our car, we dawdled over to find there was ONE AS worker - some older lady, who'd NEVER worked an AS, by herself! No AS captain, no medical, no comms except for one other lady, with a cell phone, writing down incoming numbers and times.

Callie and I took over, helping fill bottles, just as the Hare field was about to catch the Tortoise field....then we realized we were going to run out of water!!

WTF? Where WAS everything? I hauled ass into town, bought six gallons of water ($3 each) and brought them back, just when the entire AS was about to run dry! About 30min after that, proper reinforcements arrived...and like two HS kids to "work". Ugh.

NOT impressed by this race, AT ALL.

We were there long enough to help Kelly (who was starting to feel it), and help some Hares:

- Alex Nichols looked good and came in with Sage, who looked "less good"
- about 4-5 other guys (mostly unknown to me, except Tommy Rivers Puzey) were in the chase
- then Bronco Billy, Jesse Haynes and others

Looked and sounded like a tough course.

CA and I packed up after that and hit Olympian again in town to wait for Kelly. He was delayed.

Turns out, when he finally arrived, that he was having some sort of either allergies or altitude sickness:

- mega high HR
- short of breath
- nausea & puking (rare for him)

We parked indoors in the chalet, pumping fluids. I gave him an allegra, in case the allergies (which were significant for me) were causing it. Then we decided we'd power-hike the 4+ miles, back through town, up to the TH he'd come down in the AM. But after that...it'd be a major risk -- out into the wilderness for another 20+mi..and taking CA with him!

We hiked pretty good, but never ran, even on a gentle downhill. And his breathing and HR didn't improve, so he ultimately (and thankfully) DNF'd there.

So we drove the shuttle back into town, grabbed more burgers at "BDG"...then went to Strawberry Hot Springs.

The latter was "interesting" - TONS of "tasteful" (and not very dark, full-moonlit) nudity! But I was shocked at how many "normies" were there. Sooo...the "scenery" was "pretty quality". #lols

After a good hot soak, it was back to camp! Long day, but man, it could've been a LOT longer!