Well folks, the psychological Disneyland that was the 6017 memorial pledge run is complete, by the way, Psychological Disneyland would be a pretty good name for a band- TONIGHT ONLY Bobby Ross and Psychological Disneyland AND Ringworm -of course the band would probably be sued by the most cunning and vengeful organization on the planet, Disney.
Saturday morning, Mr. Tom Climo (more on him in a minute) and I made our way up the Gavin (or Gavan) Hill and Harbor Mountain Trails in just under two hours. For those of you preparing for the Alpine Run next month, there is no snow on the vertical part of the Gavin Hill trail (the first 2.5 miles of the route), and then intermittent areas of snow along the trail around the ridge to the wide portion of the Harbor Mountain Trail just before the parking lot (the last .75 miles of the route). I took about 20 minutes of video of the run on around the rim; I've added a video bar at the bottom of the page.
A word on the video-I decided to try and make it like old re-runs of Batman, so all of the video is crooked. Sorry for the Blair Witch effect, and I take no responsibility for any vertigo it may induce.
Tom Climo accompanied...OK pushed, me up the hill. Tom had said he would run with me about a month ago, but I only told him I was running up the hill last Thursday. When I showed up to St. Gregory Church in Sitka I was expecting to run alone, but there he was, sitting next to his bike, ready to go. Tom ran the entire route without breaking a sweat, while talking and he is 50 years old this year. I believe his superior physical shape and mental toughness is due to clean living, his Yankee heritage and a superhuman devotion to New England professional athletics teams. Despite this major shortcoming (Go Tigers, Bills and Sabres), he is an American Badass and I thank him for going with me.
Since I have run the 6017 Memorial Pledge Run, this will be my last round sent down-range into the interweb blogosphere. For those of you who read these entries and were motivated to donate to the CG Foundation to support the CG 6017 memorial, thank you again. If you have not donated, please consider making a donation by visiting www.6017memorial.org.
For those of you who stumbled upon this site in search of adult entertainment, secrets to liberal democratic freedoms or haggis recipes from Spain, I hope you took a moment to feel either shame, disappointment or confusion, whichever feeling is appropriate and THEN visited www.6017memorial.org to support the fund.
Thank you, good night.
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