The best time to visit Fairadise! Carrie, Torsten, and Matt went up to Fairbanks in late September. We stayed with Don & Anne (thanks for the great hospitality!). We caught up with Dana, Martin (welcome back!), Curt (glad you were in town!), Gina, Harlow, Shawna, Blair, more, more, etc!). We ran a relay: Carrie leg 1 (great run, she looked ready to keep going at the end!), Matt leg 2 (he got the “Juneau weather” treatment on Ester Dome and had the best “drowned rat” look going when he finished), and Gina leg 3 (the ringer! We couldn’t get a picture of her–it was just a blur!). What a great time. Here are a few photos from the marathon. More Fairbanks pictures soon. And more marathon pictures in the gallery.
Carrie, running up the hill by the muskox farm with Peter giving support:
Gina, blazing through leg 3:
At the finish line (Gina just kept going! Not really.. 🙂
Wow! I just saw (on the Alaska Ear at adn.com/ear ) that
“Billionaire Melinda Gates, the Mrs. to Bill, registered under her maiden name Melinda French for the grueling Equinox race in Fairbanks last weekend. She did the relay with her team, Susan’s Seattle Soul Sisters, in honor of her friend Susan Butcher, who died two years ago
of leukemia.”
Check out the New Miner article:
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/sep/21/melinda-gates-participates-equinox-marathon/