Derek ran the Race to Robie Creek yesterday. It's a 13.1 mile race up Robie Creek Road to Adalpe Summit and down to Robie Creek. They start at Fort Boise and then it's 8.4 miles to the summit - with a 2000 foot gain in elevation. Then the rest is downhill - steep downhill, not fun downhill.
He ran with his brother-in-law, Tate, who has done it before also. This is the first year they've run together, and they seemed to have a much better time running together.
Every year they have a theme that the whole run is based around. This year it was a Scottish theme - complete with lots of bagpipers throughout the course (even at the summit), and lots of runners in kilts.
Derek did awesome in the race - and totally deserved it. He's trained really hard since January, including running up the actual mountain every Saturday. It's a killer of a race - and he did 'totally kilt it'!
3 comments:
Way to go DK! I'd say he earned some snickerdoodles for that. Nal, I hope you have cream o' tarter! That's great.
Wow! Derek is even more amazing to me now!
Good for Derek -- that is tough run and he did well and so did Tate. It is more fun to run together, but most men are too macho to do that. Way to go DK!
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