Day 24 (May 19) - Third Rest Day

First, let's start the rest day post off right -- a friend of mine just let me know (see previous day's comments) that she ran a sub 4:30 marathon yesterday....It was roughly her 14th marathon, and she's been more than diligently trying to qualify for Boston the last few years. Only a few more minutes to knock off for her age group! The two amazing things are that she donated a kidney about a year and a half ago, making hydration an interesting feat, **AND** apparently, well - I'll let her words speak for themselves:

"The chip results may say 4:32 - but myself and other runners had to stop for a train that was crossing the train tracks - really!! Not making this up. It's not like the fish story "you should have seen the one that got away"..."

Now, speaking of trains, the coal train video I mentioned yesterday is down below! It's amazing. We've biked by several of these...a guy at the bike store in Casper told us 40-60 of these leave Wyoming every day...We measured this one in the car.

This morning, we visited the Fort Caspar Museum, a reconstruction the city's earliest cowboys and indians days complete with violently accurate (?) dioramas. We also visited Mountain Sports to get the bikes tuned up. If you are ever in town and not mesmerized by the boots, buckles, and chaps-clad mannequins in the storefronts, stop by and visit Mountain Sports. They were awesome and quick with the tune ups (turns out, my rear hub was all messed up and it was what they called "an ordeal" to fix). But alas, now we're ready to tackle the big hills, first gliding through the oil fields and high deserts of eastern Wyoming.