I got back to Steamboat last week after racing the Alyeska Cirque Series race and quickly had another race on the radar. This weekend was for Jessica and my job was to be her race crew along side her parents.

She raced the Leadville 100 mtb. It seemed like a pretty fun event and got me kind of excited about the longer races out there.

For crewing I went to the first feeding station which was at mile 28 & 74. The parents went to the station at mile 44 & 59. I was fully prepped for a quick pit stop. I’ve been closely watching the F1 season and know the importance of the pit-stop. I flagged Jess down and she blew by me :) That’s one way for a quick stop. The camel denied her first feed. 70 miles to go…

I had about 3 hours until I’d see Jessica again so I ran up to the Divide trail and hammered out some intervals. I got back to the feed station and this time Jess loaded up- she took a fresh camel back full of caffeinated Tail Wind, ate a bunch of Oreos, gobbled down some salt sticks, and allowed me to shove two gels into her kit. She crushed and raced with a smile each time I saw her.

Day after the race I planned to do a 3-4hr run on the divide trail and as one would expect Jessica joined me for 1.5hrs of the run despite being tired and stiff from her 8 hr race :)

On the drive back home we stopped at Copper Mountain and jumped on our bikes to ride that section of the divide trail. The trail was so fun and the view were so awesome that the ride accidentally went over two hours. Whoops! Explains why the fatigue from the race hit Jess so hard Monday and Tuesday.