Hood to Coast 2009

I should start this post by saying I love the picture of Max. The pure joy and adulation of a victory with arms raised in the air was fittingly caught by that photo. I may have felt a piece of that a few times in my life although I don’t think it has ever been captured to that degree. You will see no such emotion in the following photos.

Each year in Oregon there is a relay race called Hood to Coast which takes relay teams from Mt Hood to Seaside, Oregon over 197 miles. Teams are made up of 12 people who each run 3 legs ranging from 3.5 to 7.5 miles (My three legs were about 16 miles total distance).

This first photo is of my first leg where I was covering about 4.75 miles at a pace around 7:20 per mile. I’m feeling good here, not Max good, but good.



Here is a shot of the end of my last leg. Not feeling nearly as good as I roll in the final few hundred yards of my 7.5 mile leg. My calves were like to solid knots that didn’t go away for a few days.



This at the finish line in Seaside, Oregon were I am either expressing my pain or my admiration at Nick's sub 7 minute miles during his first leg the previous day. I thought everyone would enjoy a good laugh at seeing the gigantic lips at their finest. Peter would be proud.