Brew to Brew 2009

Brew to Brew 2009

A couple of weekends ago the team from the Downtown Y headed up to Lawrence for the annual Brew to Brew. The race is always a great adventure from the Boulevard Brewery in KC to the Free State Brewery in Lawrence. It’s a 44 mile race through all kinds of landscapes – urban, rural highways, dikes along rivers, muddy country roads. The weather this year was also mixed, with everything from sunshine to snow.

We came away from the event with a lot of laughs, some twisted ankles, but mostly stories of adventure. One of the most amazing and difficult parts was the last leg, where Harms and I ran close to five-minute miles with the wind and then turned into the wind to discover people walking backwards because the wind gusts were preventing almost all forward movement. I don’t think my heart rate has ever been so high running, outside of Pikes Peak – of course ha.

If you see Joe Cole, be sure to ask him about his fancy new gloves ha.