The Greatest Race that never WAS!
Well myself and the crew got all packed up for the big race of the year. I took two weeks to get everything in its place to go to the 35th running of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run (WSER). We left Arkansas on Wednesday morning ready for a long trip to Squaw Valley, CA near lake Tahoe. Everything was going well until we reached our first layover in Salt Lake City, UT at 1 AM. I got an email from RD Greg S. that the 35th running of the WSER had been cancelled. Wow want a downer 2 years of waiting and training up in smoke literally. The race had been caneclled due to the over 1000 forest fires in Northern California. So to make lemonade out of lemons we got up the next day and continued on our way to Squaw to what would be a great weekend of fun outdoor sports river rafting, MTBiking, Water skiing and tubing, hiking and of course Putt Putt golf. By Friday the race committee had decided to allow all of the racers from this years run entry into next years run. A great relief for all of us since the entry process is so difficult these days (Lottery, then qualifing race plus trail service.) So I since we returned home I have been back in to the base trianing mode getting ready for some short races and then a big fall schedule with teo possibly three 100 mile races in the works. Till late God Bless and Good Running.