The funnies

This little group of girls can really be divided in to 2 groups... the real runners, like Erica, Janessa and Lisa, that have been running forever and just do it with ease and then the rest of us that enjoy the running and the challenge, but we have to work at it.

So the latter of the two groups spend a lot of time on group runs. Testing our speed and distance and stamina. This at times brings out the best in us and at times the worst and sometimes it is just outright funny.

We have been running a lot at night. One because it is much cooler then, two because with the gaggle of kids we have, someone can usually take care of them then and three we just need to get accustom to running at night. At night on trails you hear a lot of things. Little animals, especially cute little bunnies can scare the daylights out of you. Yvonne in particular hates the dark and she is almost always good for a laugh for the rest of us.

There have been 2 runs very late at night from Copper Mountain to Vail Pass. The first was the stuff bad B grade horror flicks are made of. 4 women running in the middle of the night from a rest/truck stop. It had been raining and there was NO moon. It was so dark. We were all so nervous, and it was dark. Even with 3 head lamps it was pitch black. There was a lot of nervous laughter and after we came upon a tunnel that crosses under I70, one of us freaked out. Which made the rest of us laugh harder. Not like funny ha ha laugh but, the Oh My Gosh we could die out here kind of laugh. If you have seen the movie Blair Witch it was sorta like that, only funny when it was over because no one died!

Our second trip up Vail Pass was a group of 6v girls. There was a full moon and it was raining. After we found a place to park, by sending Wendy to the fire station to beg a parking spot, we ran from Copper to the top of Vail Pass. There were horses at the beginning of the trail which we could smell and see their beady eyes. The run was great. Except for the lack of oxygen and the steep uphill grade. Once we started back down a storm was moving in and there was a lot of lightning. Enough to make us all run really fast. AT one point someone said"Why didn't we ask at the meeting what to do in lightning?" That may not seem too funny, but add to the story that the majority of us have kids.....multiple kids and our bladders aren't the what they used to be, we are running, it is cold and raining and we are laughing and you have yourself the perfect depends commercial

We have been running all over the place. The majority of our team ran the 10k at 10,000ft in Vail. Our times were long. It took us a long time to finish. It was raining and for some of us it was a true test of will. Looking back on it now I honestly think we kicked major butt. Only about 200 people registered for the race. And in Colorado road races usually have more runners. Just showing that only the die hards or the totally freaking CRAZY people signed up for the trail run in Vail. We are women.....