Sep 20 2007
Colorado Relay – pray for me!
Shannon has been asking me for some time now to write a post about an upcoming athletic event that 10 of us from Highlands Baptist Church will be participating in. Well, the event starts in just a few more hours and is called the Colorado Relay.
The Colorado Relay is a 170 mile relay that traverses 4 mountain passes. No, I’m not doing it alone! There are 10 of us from HBC that are running (or should I say winching) our way up and over the mountains. Our first runner will cross the start line at 5am Friday morning (about 18 hours from when I write this) and we hope to all cross the finish line some time before 11am on Saturday. We will be running through the night as we each run 3 sections of the relay.
My first section is a 4.1 mile uphill run starting at about 10,000 ft and finishes at about 11,000 ft. Oxygen is pretty skimpy that high so pray for me. My next section begins at night so I’ll be using a headlamp to see where I’m going as I run about 7 miles up the next pass into Copper Mountain. My final leg is another 6.5 miles that is relatively flat with some downhill in it.
Our team has a website you can visit and a blog that we might even be able to do some live updates on during the race. If you are interested check us out and pray for us! We’ll need it!
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