Summer Sports

This summer Dallas took golfing lessons and Tanner played his first year of T-Ball. Dallas really seemed to pick up the golf swing and had a lot of fun, and I helped coach Tanner's team with my friend Ivan so we had a lot of fun together.







I tried my hand at an adventure race this year with some co-workers and had a great time. We ran in the Wild West Relay, which is a 200 mile race that starts in Ft. Collins and ends in Steamboat Springs and even goes through Wyoming. You can compete in 12 man or 6 man teams, and we chose to do a 6 man team, which was more challenging but a lot of fun. We ended up running about 34 miles each over 6 different legs, and it took us around 34 hours. The scenery was amazing, you run through some less traveled areas of northern Colorado on dusty mountain passes(one of my legs was at timberline), then you have to conquer the mighty Rabbit Ears Pass (which is steep in a car!) before the finish line at Steamboat. I especially enjoyed running at night in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, with no one around but a full moon. We had to pack our own supplies in our van and had to be ready for every extreme, with temps ranging from mid 90s during the day (very hot on the asphalt) and near freezing in the middle of the night, which felt really cold in our sleep deprived state. But we finished the race together and are already talking about doing it again in 2010!


This was the last leg on Rabbit Ears Pass:

During the heat of the day our squirt gun was a lifesaver

At the finish line, not bad for a bunch of CPAs!