Can it be a bad day if you learn something new? Today’s factoid was around the first Olympic marathon training site for the olympics being located at nearby Adams State University (Go Grizzlies!). The Olympics were being held in Mexico City in 1968 which is has an elevation of 7,300 feet. If you are not used to such elevations, your body lets you know. How could American marathon runners ever expect to compete?
Enter Coach Joe and Buddy who knew that their school not only had the right stuff, but also the right elevation (7,500 feet). The rest is history!
Leaving ASU in appreciation, it was time to top the gas tank off with some Dino Plus, see a choo-choo or two.
And in the spirit of the Olympics, why not see where Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, was born?
From there it was a road that i did not know beforehand would pass through a state forest. And a mountain road it was, and soon i was no longer flowing to the Pacific ocean as i passed over the continental divide and started flowing to the Atlantic ocean.
After that it was seeing the yellow autumn of Colorado.
The birches and aspens were showing me what they could do. And boy, could they do!
The Big World 