Pikes Peak Ascent

My sister and her husband came for a quick, rainy visit to Colorado Springs in mid August. They were here to run up Pikes Peak in the annual race for crazy folk!! Apparently the weather this year was the worst EVER...this race has been taking place for over 50 years and they get the worst weather, unbelievable. There were two waves in the race...Windy and Dave were in the second wave. Dave made it to the top after being rained on for the the entire race, being pelted with hail, and frozen like a popsicle. Windy made it to the "A-frame", which is mile 10, just 3 miles from the top....unfortunately they started turning people around about 5 minutes before she got there due to nasty weather....so, lucky Windy got to run 20 miles instead of the 13 she had planned on! Windy was pretty irritated that she was so close to finishing, so hopefully she'll come out next year to finish it!!!