Day 16: West Yellowstone to Bozeman, MT

Definitely sad to leave Yellowstone, but it was a good day of running through BEAUTIFUL Montana with Aspen. I had the daily dedication and I dedicated our team’s miles to Griffin, a good friend of Hannah Loiselle’s brother who had passed away a day or two prior after a bout with brain cancer. It meant a lot to me to have Griffin written on so many of my teammates’ calves.

The running was great but otherwise unremarkable. Aspen and I crushed it, can’t really say much more than that! I guess one noteworthy thing was that I kept getting brutal nosebleeds on the run. This concerned a lot of people but anyone who knows me knows that this happens all the time. Most importantly: Montana is SO beautiful!

Bozeman was a really cool, but weird, town. It’s like, sort of up and coming but also sort of in the middle of nowhere? It strikes a strange balance, that’s for sure. A few of us went to Bozeman Running Company to ask for donations after our success at Pocatello. The owner wasn’t very friendly or receptive to our requests, unfortunately! I mean, I get it, we’re asking for free stuff. That being said, I expected a little more, I don’t know, enthusiasm about what we’re doing from someone who, in theory, would be an anchor of the local running community. If she had said no, but been a bit more excited about a group of young people running ACROSS THE USA… I think I would have been cool with it.

Anyway, bottom line is that Bozeman is a cool but strange place. Schoch out.