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![The first time I visited Vail, I knew that I had to live there.](img/p_frank_t.gif)
Frank Shorter and I on a soccer field in Vail, Colorado
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![The VO2 Max test was done on a treadmill. This was the economy test...](img/p_test_t.gif)
Part of the test when I scored a 90.2 VO2 max at 6,200 feet...
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![All hooked up and no place to go...](img/p_testp_t.gif)
A dark photo fits the mood of this test - pain at 16,410'
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![Only 2 hours from Everest Base Camp](img/p_pyramid_t.gif)
Italian research pyramid. The solar panel side. 16,410 feet and awesome!
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![This was scary!](img/p_cravas_t.gif)
Next to a crevice found on the way to Everest Base Camp...
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![Now this is hot!](img/p_lava_t.gif)
Lava on the road in Hawaii
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![This is what will happen if you do...](img/p_skel_t.gif)
Go ahead, skip the water station...
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![Now this is too cool!](img/p_icecream_t.gif)
The ultimate billboard!
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![You can never have too many shoes!](img/p_shoes_t.gif)
Race morning decisions...
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![I lined up behind three-time winner Chester Carl, Scott Elliott won...](img/p_87start_t.gif)
My first Pikes Peak start in 1987. I have the orange gloves...
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![I was so out of it I could not even think!](img/p_87top_t.gif)
1987 - only three more switch backs for a 4th place finish in 2:18:51
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![On the way down in the car is where I lost my meal...](img/p_87stret_t.gif)
1987 - sick as a dog! Later I puked the bananas and Exceed...
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![This is a great race in a beautiful part of Colorado...](img/p_imogene_t.gif)
Race banner at the Imogene Pass Run in Ouray Colorado...
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![The HOLLYWOOD sign and the trail up to it made a great run.](img/p_hollyf_t.gif)
There is a great trail up to the Hollywood sign
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![The run was about 30 minutes.](img/p_hollyc_t.gif)
The letters were not as big as I thought...
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![3/4 of the way to Mt. Kenya](img/p_mtkenya_t.gif)
This is on the trail to 16,380' Mt. Kenya in the background
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![$580 a night at this hotel!](img/p_kenyas_t.gif)
Standing at the equator at our hotel, the Mount Kenya Safari Club...
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![Depending on which side of the equator you are on water drains different.](img/p_equator_t.gif)
While in Kenya I got to see the Coriolis effect first hand... Sure...
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![Now that is one steep moma!](img/p_incline24_t.gif)
Looking at the Incline from Highway 24 in Manitou...
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![At the clouds isn't even the top!](img/p_inclineb_t.gif)
Looking up from the start of the Incline. My best time is 18:31...
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![Oh what a feeling](img/p_incline_t.gif)
The middle of this workout redefines hill. It also redefines pain...
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![We run up what people rode down!](img/p_cable_car_t.gif)
The Incline as it was before 1990...
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![Almost done](img/p_me_top_t.gif)
Just a few switchbacks from the top. 1997 Pikes Peak Ascent...
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![My favorite trail](img/p_elkpark_t.gif)
Elk Park Trail 11,700' with Pikes Peak in the background...
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![Looking from 17,343 foot Iztacihuatl](img/p_vol_t.gif)
There she blows! 17,887' Popocatépetl is venting in Mexico...
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![The day before the race](img/p_everest_t.gif)
Me, a horse and 29,028 foot Mount Everest...
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