The three remaining members of the team went on today with the start of their final days at PQ Montana. They had a good nights sleep,ate spaghetti for dinner,pancakes and scrambled eggs for breakfast, and headed out for a 50 mile bike ride in the Gallatin mountains. Some epic rope-work, an orienteering section, a last trek to make their feet feel more misery than they do, and a final 31 mile bike ride back up to Big Sky remain, and then they can lay this race to rest. I am sad not to be travelling with my friends and team-mates any more, but it was not in the plan this year. My feet are healing, I can breathe easier once again, my spirits are lifting, and I cannot wait to see them cross the finish line together. For Charlie this will be his 3rd PQ, Iona’s 2nd and Paul’s last, but the lasting memory will be the friendships forged in steel for the time they spent in the back country watching each others backs, and forcing them to go beyond their pain thresholds for the good of each other. In a couple of days PQ will rollup and leave town, and all the athletes will go home to their familes, lives and jobs,but the memories,those will last forever.

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