Scott loves trails

Glorious Bighorn!  Just back from what's become an annual pilgrammage to the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming for my favorite race anywhere.  And I'm grinning ear to ear and loving the experience and the results---first finish on the original/normal course that beat me up and spat me out in 2007 and 2010 (33:45:54)...and second 100 mile finish in 34 days!   I mostly felt good, persevered through a second-half slowdown, chased the cutoffs in the 80s and early 90s, and was able to cruise easily for the latter miles.  Sweet feeling! The conditions (sun, heat, rain, hypothermic cold at night, snow drifts in high country, etc.) were epic.  Ditto for the beauty of the canyons, whitewater streams and rivers, hoodos and other rock formations, and bugling elk calling to their calves in the pre-dawn darkness with eyes aglow. I'll get a longer report up in a few days, but just wanted to share the good news!

Recap and Overview Well, I gotta say, my "headlines" on this one look and feel pretty good!  Finishing strong with sub-10-minutes miles from about mile 99 or so.  Avenging my '09 DNF at MMT (the sloppy, stormy, steamy year).  For the first time ever, actually notching two finishes in consecutive 100 starts, stretching back to last year's Bighorn.  Getting my first 100 finish as a daddy!  I'm tempted to analyze it to death (more on that below), but mostly I've just wanted to enjoy it over these  four weeks now since it happened!  Any kind of success at this distance has been a long time comin', and it really, really feels nice! A sweet feeling crossin' that finish line! What stands out most about the "inner experience" at MMT was not ever losing the quite confidence that I'd make it across the finish line.  What seemed in question, from maybe the mid-point onward, was mostly how long it would take me and how much under the 36 hour