Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is one event I always look forward to on my annual calendar. It’s an event like none other on the globe. The 14,115 ft mountain is my canvas to do as I wish. It is refreshing. Fun. Exhausting. Frustrating. Dangerous. Nearly every emotion that could be thrown at a person in one week is something you are guaranteed to feel on this mountain. My first year, 2012, I was in sheer awe of the mountain and the event itself, and it was even more spec

Look off to your right and there is a sheer drop of almost a thousand feet with no guard rail. To your left, jagged rocks that have pieces of car and bike still littering the ground around them, almost serving as a warning to those that thunder past. The air is thin and you can feel every move your body makes because it’s 100 times more difficult to perform even simple tasks with the lack of oxygen this high in the sky. This race and this track separates drivers from heroes,