{"id":5,"date":"2007-07-06T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-08-17T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T16:32:01","slug":"july-1-4-training-in-death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"July 1-4 training in Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>July 1-4<\/p>\n

This weekend I had the great priviledge to crew for Steve James in a Badwater Solo effort.\u00a0 This is the second time Willy Roland and I have crewed Steve in the trek from Badwater to Mount Whitney Portals.\u00a0 This time, even with tremendous blister issues, he was able to complete the course in 53 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This was perfect timing for me as I was able to spend these 3-4 days in the desert, getting comfortable with the heat, and putting in some good ‘Badwater Miles’.\u00a0 I paced with Steve, just as if I was racing myself, with Willy crewing us both, for the Furnace Creek to past Stovepipe sections, then from Panamint up to Father Crowley’s Point, and then the climb up to Whitney Portals.\u00a0 Those are good sections of the course, all challenging, I was hoping to continue after Stovepipe up Townes Pass, but my feet were not feeling so good, and I didn’t want to cause any issues that would weaken me before my own race on July 22.<\/p>\n

Willy also spent much time doing long stretches of pacing, from where I left off after Stovepipe, all the way up and down Townes Pass into Panamint.\u00a0 Then for very long stretches of road from Father Crowley’s to the beginning of the Whitney Climb.\u00a0
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We had a great time, the desert is quite a unique place, much of if looks like you are on a completely different planet.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, during the day around Darwin Cutoff, we were ‘buzzed’, by fighter jets on 4 or 5 occasions.\u00a0 Though buzzed is not at all the right word here, we were BLASTED by jet engine noise, never seeing the jet until it was literally on top of us, and the sound explodes all around you.\u00a0\u00a0 I know those guys LOVE targeting on a slow moving runner or stopped vehicle and going through a low elevation attack like that.\u00a0 What fun that must be.<\/p>\n

A great trip to Los Angeles, with good friends.\u00a0 Both Steve and Willy are my crew for Furnace Creek 508, so I’ll be seeing them again in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 1-4 This weekend I had the great priviledge to crew for Steve James in a Badwater Solo effort.\u00a0 This is the second time Willy Roland and I have crewed Steve in the trek from Badwater to Mount Whitney Portals.\u00a0 This time, even with tremendous blister issues, he was able to complete the course in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}