Pics

Some pics taken by Allan Duhm, my crew chief, from the Race Across the West.

http://picasaweb.google.com/psychling/RaceAcrossTheWest2010Photos#

These are pics taken by my son, James.

http://picasaweb.google.com/fallonmms/DFRaw02#

And this is a short video taken by my son, James.

http://picasaweb.google.com/fallonmms/DFRAW#


After about 415 miles in 28 hours I arrived at Congress, AZ.  Time Station # 6.   I was fine from the waist up. No heat problem. We had pretty much worked out the food problem. The `runs' had stopped running. I don't think I was dehydrated (no symptoms that I can recall but I DO think that one should hydrate more than I did -- electrolyte matters being equal). I just didn't have the legs for it. I wasn't dizzy. But when I stood up I couldn't recruit the dozens of autonomic small muscle movements we need to remain stable in the upright position. That, and a recognition that I didn't likely have the stamina to get past Mingus Mountain.

I'd done Yarnell Grade, Skull Valley, Mingus Mountain, through Sedona and up to Flagstaff in the past. It's important to know what you're doing. And when you decide to not do it ... it's based on knowledge, not loss of will.

I just didn't have the miles of training necessary for the entire RAW route. There's really not a lot of surprise to it. I knew it was a `long shot' but I really, really wanted to do it. And, I was very much looking forward to having my crew and I together to participate -- from the inside out -- in one of the world's most incredible endurance events.