Eastern Siberian Coast (and what has happened since Thanksgiving)

It is fitting that we are stuck in Siberia right now, the weather has been formidable. However, feel lucky that you do not live in Oymyakon, Siberia, a town through which we recently passed. This town is believed to have experienced the lowest temperature ever for an inhabited area (-96 degrees F in January of 1926). They have average highs of 71 in July, but they also have a July record low of -9. Happy picnicking!

We are now near the Sea of Okhotsk along the Eastern Siberian Coast, just west of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

We have had some very low mileage totals since Thanksgiving, and I certainly have not done anything to change that. However, some people have been doing yeomen's work of late. Specifically, Mike, Megan, and Katie have all been piling up big miles. Megan was high-person the week before Thanksgiving (74.5 miles), Katie was high-person during Thanksgiving week (71.8 miles), and then Megan was nearly high-person again the following week (105.9 miles to Mike's 106.1). That gives us 5 different weekly leaders over the course of the year:

1. Mike Wente - 40 weeks
2. Rob Haaland - 5 weeks
3. Clay Peterson - 2 weeks
4. Megan Dabroski - 1 week
5. Katie Green - 1 week

A couple of cool milestones were reached. Chris Fry and Rachel Hohenstein each surpassed the 1,000 mile mark for yearly running (joining Mike). Also, Megan surpassed 1,000 miles in biking. Rob is a measly one running mile from becoming the first individual to achieve all 3 of his goals, and Mike is only about 220 biking miles from joining him. Lastly, we have surpassed 25,000 total miles for the year as a team, and we are only about 1,200 miles from US soil. Keep working, we still have a chance!