Saturday, July 11, 2009

Honey just made the final river crossing. She has about 2 miles to go.

Andrew has finished in 39 hours, 10 minutes

Honey thorugh 82 miles

Jamil is a Hardrocker!!

Jamil finished in 15th place at 3:19 PM Colorado time. total time 33:19:00. Great Job Jamil.
Honey is through Chapman Gulch (82 miles) at 3:00 p.m. and is headed up Grant Swamp Pass as a thunderstorm rolls in.

Honey is through Telluride

Honey pulled into Telluride (72 miles) looking great. She picked up Liz as her new pacer and is headed off at 9:40 a.m.
Honey and I made it over Engineer Pass and into Ouray. The weather was clear and cool. She moved strongly the whole way while battling nausea. She left Ouray with Aaron as her pacer over Virginius into Telluride at 2:50 a.m. She is in good spiriits and told me to tell everyone, "Honey says hey!" .......Joe G.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Taking a toll

Trying to put it all together here back in Phoenix. Wardo reports that there was a big hail storm on Handies (+14,000 ft). Kirk and Jody had to drop. Jody battling altitude sickness and Kirk stomach and hypothermia.

According to the webcast Jamil ended up staying in Ouray for some time but left with Andrew. This will be a good team. So the four amigos would be Jamil paced by Nick and Andrew paced by Chip. They can all have a group hug on top of Virginius to stay warm:)

Honey went though Engineer at 11:21 PM. Looks like she is continuing with a steady pace. She should arrive in Ouray mile 56 around 2:20 AM or so. Look forward to hearing Joe's report.

Robert was about 40 min or so behind Honey. He is one tough dude!

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