Subject: Rocky Mountain Double Marathon From: Kevin O'Neall Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:02:26 -0600 The Laramie, Wyoming race was held on Sunday. The weather was cold and windy for the morning. The race starts in the parking lot of an interstate rest stop, about 9000ft altitude. The first six miles is a descent into the Medicine Bow National Forest on dirt roads. Then four miles of up-and-down hills. Then three miles descending again to the 13.1 mile point at about 8400ft. Director Brent Wiegner improved the race by staking out mile markers. The aid stations were roughly four miles apart stocked with water, gatorade, pringles and granola bars. The 50 states club was there because Brent's race is the only marathon in Wyoming. Actually that's not the case anymore since Casper started a marathon. I saw some of the 50 state people bitching about the Laramie course so I asked them why they didn't run the Casper race instead. After all, it's flat and a lower altitude. Most hadn't heard of Casper. In years past Medicine Bow was crowded with RVs. It's amusing to see these fancy rigs with canopies and satellite dishes. At what point does it stop being camping and become carrying your house with you? Anyway perhaps its a sign of the economy but I only saw a few RVs. I finished roughly the same time as last year. The difference is that last year I was too sore to run for weeks after the race. This time I'm not stiff at all. I'll be running again today. 1 Rick Reimer, 54 8:12:45 2 Steve Pollock, 43 8:57:19 3 Dave Cunningham, 39 9:43:11 4 Cheri Bashor(F), 49 9:58:12 5 Barbara Elias(F), 41 9:58:26 6 Marty Coleman, 42 10:00:45 7 Sally Brooking(F), 46 10:11:09 8 Keith Panzer, 44 10:15:20 9 Michelle Richter(F), 35 10:47:22 10 Maurice Robinson, 61 10:55:58 11 David Thompson, 42 11:09:01 12 Bill Ransom, 46 11:09:32 13 Jack Jewell, 49 11:18:00 14 Brenda Geisler(F), 42 11:25:36 15 Chris DeJohn, 31 11:26:24 16 Kevin O'Neall, 46 11:47:04 17 Amy Sebby(F), 34 11:49:42 18 Kristina Irvin(F), 45 11:49:56 19 John Hobbs, 57 12:04:27 20 Alvin Strait, 49 12:08:20 21 Carrie Vinci(F), 27 12:11:48 22 Brent Nelson, 40 12:17:23 23 Francoise Carpenter(F), 54 12:40:13 24 Jan Estebo(F), 50 12:57:37 25 Peter Dorsa, 46 15:53:50 Kevin O'Neall Green River, WY 5/27/03