Imogene Pass Run
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JKDetonator
Adventurer
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I thought you meant a jeep race! This is with your feet? No way! Maybe I could just :smiley_drive:along.
I thought you meant a jeep race! This is with your feet? No way! Maybe I could just :smiley_drive:along.
Ford Prefect
Expedition Leader
I have done it several times in my jeep.
If you are considering it, be sure you go and drive it first. There are some sections that you would not easily walk up, much less run, and it is very steep in places. Beautiful though, good luck should you choose to do it.
Cheers
If you are considering it, be sure you go and drive it first. There are some sections that you would not easily walk up, much less run, and it is very steep in places. Beautiful though, good luck should you choose to do it.
Cheers
mmtoy
Adventurer
This is my second time going. I'm not a runner, nor am I terribly competitive; I (and my wife) was talked into it last time by my brother-in-law, and this time by my wife. It's been a few years, I didn't train at all, and now I'm wondering just how much am I going to regret it... 
It is absolutely beautiful, but the times that some people do it in are insane! Plus, they're missing out on the view!
Anyway, was just wondering if there was anyone on the board who has done or is going to do it this year.
It is absolutely beautiful, but the times that some people do it in are insane! Plus, they're missing out on the view!
Anyway, was just wondering if there was anyone on the board who has done or is going to do it this year.
BigDaveZJ
Adventurer
We ran into a guy running it when we were up there last month. Absolutely nuts! I got winded just walking 50 yards uphill near the summit to help out a guy who's Xterra was running funny.
Congrats on making it, I can honestly say that is something I would never even attempt to do.
Congrats on making it, I can honestly say that is something I would never even attempt to do.
mmtoy
Adventurer
Thanks!
I actually said (and truly believed) the same thing, but then my wife decided she was going to do it and somehow I ended up joining her. I would never have joined her in a (half) marathon up to that point, so I still can't say why I did this. I still have no intention of doing a (half) marathon.
I do very much enjoy hiking, so that's part of it, but I still can't figure out why I agreed to go the first time, and it's even more of a mystery why I did it the second time.
I actually said (and truly believed) the same thing, but then my wife decided she was going to do it and somehow I ended up joining her. I would never have joined her in a (half) marathon up to that point, so I still can't say why I did this. I still have no intention of doing a (half) marathon.
I do very much enjoy hiking, so that's part of it, but I still can't figure out why I agreed to go the first time, and it's even more of a mystery why I did it the second time.
Ford Prefect
Expedition Leader
Wow, that is awesome, it seems like it takes nearly that long to drive it!
Sounds like you had a lot of fun! Congratulations!
Brian
mmtoy
Adventurer
Thanks guys!
My lungs never really gave out on me. Rather, I never noticed if they did because the knee was so painful. My quads did burn the next day, and now I have a pain in my foot which may be related to running too much too quickly in my Vibram Five Finger shoes.
The Imogene pass is one of those places that you should really spend several days just looking at, not running past, and I'd like to make time to go camping up there at some point.
My lungs never really gave out on me. Rather, I never noticed if they did because the knee was so painful. My quads did burn the next day, and now I have a pain in my foot which may be related to running too much too quickly in my Vibram Five Finger shoes.
The Imogene pass is one of those places that you should really spend several days just looking at, not running past, and I'd like to make time to go camping up there at some point.
77blazerchalet
Former Chalet owner
If you think that Imogene run is intense, you ain't seen nothin'. Check out this Silverton-to-Silverton run http://hardrock100.com/
Myself, couldn't run more than a couple of hundred yards up those inclines, but the photography at that site and ones in the past is simply stunning.
Myself, couldn't run more than a couple of hundred yards up those inclines, but the photography at that site and ones in the past is simply stunning.
mmtoy
Adventurer
Ugh. That looks insane. I'd like to be able to do something like that, just to know that I can, but... I don't think I'd like to do it.
Hill Bill E.
Oath Keeper
Wow! I just ran Imogene pass (in my Jeep!) the Friday after Labor Day! (Sept 10th)
We stopped for coffee at around 1730 hours, just below the summit.
Kudos to anyone who has hiked/walked/ran this route!
The weather was great this year!
We stopped for coffee at around 1730 hours, just below the summit.
Kudos to anyone who has hiked/walked/ran this route!
The weather was great this year!
I can never stay healthy long enough to do any sort of racing.... daggum lungs.........