Mt. Rainier – Fourth of July

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Instead of writing a long blog post about how much fun and awesome camping with the Portland crew was, I’ll just point you to their blogs. :)

Allen, Ian, & Julien all take these incredibly unrealistically real pictures… I had fun watching them play around with their cameras all weekend. My pictures are here, but they’re almost embarrassing next to theirs. I encourage you to check theirs out first!

Ragnar the Fire Dragon has been slain

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It’s 3am (now 6am) and I should be passed out cold. My body is wracked from exhaustion of the mental & physical kind. I’ve pushed pretty much every part of my being harder than I have in months and my reward is the thrill of having slain the fire dragon Ragnar.

Our team, the “Beer Gardeners”, kicked so much behind that I’m almost at a loss for words. We were a mix of veteran runners and newbs, every one of which exceeded their own performance expectations. Down the (wo)man we brought our A+++ game and it really showed.

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