Mountain Goat 2007

The weather was perfect. The Gophers were ready. The gun went off. Immediately Ron Moore and Stephen Codner took off. Stephen thought he might be able to take it easy this race, but Ron wouldn't let him. "Everytime I thought that I had passed Ron, I would look up and he was ahead of me." Codner commented. After the first 4 miles Stephen Codner overtook Ron to stay ahead of him. Meanwhile further back Wagner and Gallow battled. For a long time it was back and forth. Wagner would charge up the hills and get in front of Gallow. Gallow would use his long lags and overtake Wagner on the downhills. Finally Wagner overtook Gallow on Colvin Hill, Gallow caught up to him after that hill, but couldn't keep up with him on the final hills. Gallow had Wagner in his eyesight waiting for Wagner to slow down, but it never happened. All the gophers went on to preform their own Personal Records in the grueling 10 mile hilly race. Codner finished with a (1:15:30, 7:33 min/mile). Despite vomiting at the top of one of the hills Moore had a (1:16:52, 7:41 min/mile), Wagner had a strong showing with a (1:20:19, 8:02 min/mile), and Gallow finished with a (1:20:46, 8:05 min/mile). A Good time was had by all.