Jul 25 2009

Day 7: Apraho National Forest

Day 7 of the trip to Colorado.

Awake early yet again, And go out for a quick breakfast with Steve Harris, Mary Seidel,
Joe Wooten, and Drew Marcum.

Joe, Drew, and I load up Drew’s truck with our bikes and hit the road.  We are going to meet up with a friend of Joe’s and ride some trails that he knows.  They are in the Arapaho Forrest near Granby, Colorado.  It’s nearly a 2 hour trip.

We meet up with Eric & Kevin Jurin and have lunch on the way.

We finally hit the trails around 1 pm.  A very late start for us.  The trails quickly go from 2 track (4 wheel capable) to single track and all over the place.

Eric & Joe lead the way.  Drew and I are running together with me taking video with my Oregon Scientific helmet-mounted camera.  We are both picking up the pace and soon running an amazing pace for us.  We are in the zone and totally focused for the next couple of hours.  We end up doing about 29 miles out into the forest.  We hit the end of that trail and start back.  I am starting to really fatigue at this point.

We make it back to a juncture with the dirt road that paces the trails and exit onto that.  We’ve done  around 38-ish miles.  I’m done physically at this point and out of pedialite.

Our eventual total mileage is 55 for the whole outing.  About 5 hours with breaks.  And We have over 2 hours of video of the event!!!

Riders today:

Joe Wooten
Drew Marcum
Steve Keener

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