Highland Sky 40

Highland Sky 40 miler

June 16, 2012

Davis, WV

WUS shows its guns

Pretty much everything you need to know about Highland Sky is written in this picture: Ragan rocked it, setting a new CR in 7:03; Aaron pulled out a remarkable 11th place having run less mileage this spring than he typically covers in the first two weeks of January, but undeniably suffered for it; and Brian snagged the last top-5 spot in his HS rookie debut.  I paced Brian from mile 32 (finishing the course from where I dropped out last year), and then swung around again to run the last mile or so with Aaron.  The last 4 miles of HS are on some long, lonely, sun-exposed roads, and I was happy to be able to cheer up that otherwise miserable section of the race.   As Aaron and I were running, Aaron mentioned that he’d been running earlier in the race with a guy who recounted a story about last year at HS how there was an escape horse on the trail early in the climb and how a girl had asked him if it was his pony.  Aaron admitted that yes, he knew that girl.  I later reunited with the guy at the finish line and admitted that I was the pony line girl.  Anyway, I’ll leave these champions to tell their own stories.  Aaron has promised us a perfect sonnet.

Brian's feet post-Holy Cowans gap and HS