Glenwood Springs

High on a hill overlooking Glenwood Springs and accessed by a steep, half-mile dirt trail is am archetypical pioneer cemetery that contains a monument to Doc Holliday, the gunslinging, gambling dentist who backed Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral and died in bed of tuberculosis aged 36.

I have to admit that on the way up to pay my respects to John Henry, I was figuring out what a great place this would be to do some fast-draw 800m repeats. The day's schedule was for 10x400, but so far Glenwood Springs had failed to produce a flat bit of road, grass or pavement -- Highway I 70 excepted. Then, glory be, pausing at a bench on the climb up, the sound of a ghostly horse-drawn hearse in my ears, there was a vision... laid out before me in the distant heat haze on the other side of town -- a track, a proper running track!