{"id":1026,"date":"2016-06-16T20:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2016-06-16T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:48:03","slug":"checking-out-the-big-horn-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Checking out the Big Horn course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Story, Wyoming this week&#8230; never been here, but I&#8217;ll be back since it&#8217;s really pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Mike, Tina, and I drove to different points on the course in preparation for Mike running the Bighorn 100 tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 The 4 pictures below are from the canyon he will start in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1028 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2399-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2399\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2399-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2399-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2399-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2399-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1033 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2395-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2395\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2395-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2395-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2395-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2395-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1034 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2396-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2396\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2396-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2396-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2396-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2396-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1035 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2397-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2397\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2397-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2397-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2397-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2397-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Within a mile of the start, Mike will climb to the plateau of the Big Horn mountains and slowly work his way towards the crest, which is the turn around point of the &#8220;out and back&#8221; race.\u00a0\u00a0 The picture below is from the car traveling along a gentle 8% grade road; Mike will be climbing a single track incline up almost a vertical mile.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1032 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2405-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2405\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2405-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2405-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2405-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2405-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We will see him about 4 hours into the race at the 13 mile aid station.\u00a0 The terrain is rolling green hills that rise and fall over many miles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1029 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2400-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2400\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2400-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2400-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2400-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will meet Mike at mile 48 and pace the remaining 53 miles with him.\u00a0 I expect to meet him around 2am Saturday morning.\u00a0 The weather is expected to be in the high 40&#8217;s at night and low 70&#8217;s during the day.\u00a0\u00a0 Perfect running weather, but 101 miles in the mountains is tough no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1030 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2402-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2402\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2402-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2402-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2402-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2402-624x417.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/417;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Story, Wyoming this week&#8230; never been here, but I&#8217;ll be back since it&#8217;s really pretty. Mike, Tina, and I drove to different points on the course in preparation for Mike running the Bighorn 100 tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 The 4 pictures below are from the canyon he will start in. Within a mile of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}