Wheew, it was fantastic.  15 miles through the rocky, hilly woods of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake superior in the UP.

First 600 feet down a steep, winding, slippery trail.  One track over the giant rock covered by a thin layer of soil and Tolkienesque ecosystem.  You expect an Elf, Hobbit, or Dwarf to appear around the next tree or over the next cliff.

15 miles in the summer heat around Manganese lake and next to Lake Fanny Hooe (fanny who?). 

Check out the map and topography. 

http://www.greatlakesendurance.com/objects/maps/keweenaw/25k.pdf

The energy of the participants after this run was amazing.  The whole room with the breakfast after the run was glowing.

The group features a zen earth friendly tude that transcends.  Transcends petty politics and goes right to the source, body, mind, spirit united with the living planet.  Incredible energy!

I was forced to walk back up the 400 foot climb to the finish, but i did not stop to rest and ran into the finish.  13 minute miles.  Pretty slow but I survived.  Excellent.  Slow and steady finished the race at the same speed I started it.  Zen.

Check out the third youtube video on this linked page.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/24/01547/5447#10

Edwards says no to nukes.  Obama says that nukes should be part of the mix.

Hillary says conservation, efficiency, and technological inovation.  Payed for by shifting the subsidies for oil companies to the effort.

She leaves a window for nuclear.  If innovation can solve the waste and cost issues, fine.

That comes back to a compromise.  Let thenuclear industry build a few new waste eating, less expensive, demonstrably fail safe reactors as a test project.  Examine the results and then reconsider nuclear.  Can it then be done safely and cost effectively.

This is why Hillary is presidential.  Edwards ought to be Attorney general.  Gore should be energy secretary.  Obama should be VP.  This is how leadership works.  The leader has the full picture, the people on her team have their own areas of competence.

It has notrhing to do with talking out of both sides of ones mouth or putting a finger in the wind.  It has to do with looking at the big picture.

I wish Edwards hadn't mentioned cellulosic ethanol, but at least hillary did not tout corn ethanol.

No one mentioned the GM Volt.  That name ought to have been dropped.