As planned we headed towards Vail but decided at the last minute to go to Fruita, CO just for our ride. Plan A was to go to Vail to pre-ride the XC course but it was nuking there so halfway there we headed for Fruita.
We picked up a passenger along the way too that was apparently sick of flying. Chris and I are going to rock/paper/scissors for who gets to remove it.
It was decent in Fruita (60 degrees and overcast) and we got to see a 3’ long 3” thick yellow and greenish (what we think was a) Bull Snake sitting right in the line we had been taking up a rock wall. Oh my! I got the camera out to snap it but the weather changed drastically for the worse at that moment and we had to go!! So I got poured on once again (2nd day in a row now) and was still sopping by the time I got back to the car but this time had a chance to escape before it entered my shoes…but it was on its way!
Saw this little munchkin too (in the center of the photo):
From Fruita we drove in the driving rain and saw a rapidly running CO River as we headed to Vail, CO. There we met up with our roomies, 2 girl Trail Running and Marathon athletes that are faster than fast. One having been on a Worlds Team and the other who is a regular at the front in both Marathons and Trail Running. It was cool to swap stories with them and to discover how it is to train for a whole different discipline. Pretty enlightening and very interesting. We are all athletes after the same things, living life, racing, same highs, same lows…but just different sports. Pretty cool.
We picked up a passenger along the way too that was apparently sick of flying. Chris and I are going to rock/paper/scissors for who gets to remove it.
It was decent in Fruita (60 degrees and overcast) and we got to see a 3’ long 3” thick yellow and greenish (what we think was a) Bull Snake sitting right in the line we had been taking up a rock wall. Oh my! I got the camera out to snap it but the weather changed drastically for the worse at that moment and we had to go!! So I got poured on once again (2nd day in a row now) and was still sopping by the time I got back to the car but this time had a chance to escape before it entered my shoes…but it was on its way!
Saw this little munchkin too (in the center of the photo):
From Fruita we drove in the driving rain and saw a rapidly running CO River as we headed to Vail, CO. There we met up with our roomies, 2 girl Trail Running and Marathon athletes that are faster than fast. One having been on a Worlds Team and the other who is a regular at the front in both Marathons and Trail Running. It was cool to swap stories with them and to discover how it is to train for a whole different discipline. Pretty enlightening and very interesting. We are all athletes after the same things, living life, racing, same highs, same lows…but just different sports. Pretty cool.
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