25 years ago today I ran on my first USA team at the World Mountain running championships. The week leading up to the champs was spent in Susa, Italy training on part of the course with teammates Lyndon Ellefson, Tom Sobal and (former Gold Medalist) Jay Johnson. The World Champs course was just over 9 miles and had over 5,000’ of climb and had a couple of drops including one big drop of about 400’. I ended up just cracking the top 10 with a 9th place finish (1:13:08). I was kind of disappointed as I’d worked my way up to 5th place on the first big climb but lost 7 spots on the downhill (I was not good at downhill running). I gained back a few spots on the final climb but vowed to come back the following year and get into the top 5.
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