It was a moving moment when 5 walkers after 31:20 hours reached the finish line of "Café to Café 100", a group-walk on paved and unpaved trails through several cities at the northern end of the Denver metro-area.

6 walkers met Saturday morning at Starbuck’s in Arvada – Eric from CA, for the 4^th time already with us, Harry from Greeley, a 3 time "veteran", Mary from WY, Stephanie, Wayne and myself from CO. From CO as well was Tim, who started in the evening. It was a small, but physically and mentally very strong group – never any whining or complaining, only smiles and "it’s fun" to the very end. - In addition to these starters, 2 entrants had to cancel their participation last minute.

We had very scenic sections with great views to the Rocky Mountains, through parks and along little creeks – and some not so scenic ones. The weather was perfect: dry with very comfortable temperatures.

A schedule defined the walking speed. At the start it was 4.6 mi/hr., then slowing down to 4.0 mi/hr. after 50 miles and 3.5 mi/hr. at the end.

Stops where at Denny’s, McDonald’s, a Chinese buffet and twice the Deli-Department of King Soopers. And in addition we had of course several aid stations. Our wonderful crews were Marty and Joel. As "Medical Manager" Joel helped all of us fixing feet, stomachs and whatever was necessary. While I was leading the group, Traudl was busy all the time driving through Denver, staffing the "moving aid station", buying things, driving back walkers who stopped, handling drop-bags and much more.

For walking on city trails at night we needed permits from Arvada and Westminster. Both cities, with our main contacts being Mike and Jon, were very supportive.

A big "thank you" goes to everybody who helped to make this walk a great success!

Most participants in our walking events have a background of trail races like Hardrock or Nolan’s 14. They are using these walks as x-training and to improve walking skills. They find out that walking 100 miles on mostly concrete city trails, plus the requirement of adjusting speed to a pre-defined schedule, by far isn’t as easy as it sounds…

Our group-walks in cities and our fast hikes in the mountains are in a family atmosphere. We don’t take more than 10-12 entries and have strict qualifications.