Once we got everything packed and ready to load Donna and I paid five of the guys who work for her boss and they loaded us in one evening. The next day Donna drove her truck and trailer with the last four horses to come and I drove the rental truck. Thankfully it was in uneventful trip up. Brandy helped us with a lot of the unloading but had to work so Donna and I did the majority of it ourselves; all 140 years of us combined. 😳
I had already made plans to go to Colorado for a “Reunion Run” Memorial Day weekend and I planned to take the train since it was only one night and I would be staying in Denver at Robert Spells. I checked and found out that there is a train from Eugene to Sacramento which is where my ticket to Denver was from so even though it meant a second night on the train and a long layover in Sacramento on the way home it made more sense to take the train than drive to Sacramento, pay for parking and two nights in hotels.
It was a good trip out. I got better at sleeping on the train so didn’t feel as beat up when I arrived in Denver as I did when I arrived in Chicago in December.
The day after I arrived Robert and I got a run in at Sloan Lake and then we headed out to Trinidad where we were staying the night before a race in Aguilar. It was a last minute decision more or less to do it with Robert the Saturday before the Bolder Boulder which was originally going to be the “Reunion Run”. Robert has a goal to race in every county in Colorado and that’s why he was doing Aguilar. It was the epitome of a small town race with only 12 of us running. The start was unique because the guys had to run further than the women except be scored as if they ran the same. We all started on the same start line with the women heading to the finish line and the guys running two tenths of a mile in the opposite direction before turning around and heading to the finish. It was a tough course at altitude that finished all uphill.
The next day was Sunday and Joe Brazil drive up from the Springs to do a run at Washington Park with Robert and I. Then we went to a cool little waffle shop to have breakfast and visit. Joe was originally part of the “Reunion Run” that brought me to Denver but circumstances changed. I was glad he got to come up and spend some time with us.
The next day was the Bolder Boulder and that was the race we all agreed to meet at when we raced together at the Cherry Creek Sneak the year before. Unfortunately for the majority of “commitments” life got in the way and there were to many conflicts that prevented people from coming to mention here. There were five of us from Cherry Creek who showed up and ran and even then the only one I saw besides Robert was Desiree. It’s a huge (50,000) race that finishes in Folsom Field and because of wave starts Lena Spengler couldn’t hang around until I finished and Gerald’s wife Kari got sick and he went back to the hotel with her. Needless to say I’ll be a little more committed to “Reunion Runs” in the future. Had we not all committed I wouldn’t have made the trip back with everything going on with the move.
The trip home on the train was good and I made good despite all kinds of delays because I had a really long layover in Sacramento. The more delays the shorter the layover. I made good use of the lay you going to a sports bar near the station and watching the Blues game. The. bartender was a hockey fan so it was actually a really fun evening.
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