Comments on: 2015 Rockwell Relay Race Report, Part 5: Zombies

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:14:46 +0000

Fatty, I can validate the zombies. A few years ago I was driving hells backbone, just outside of Boulder. It started to rain a little ways into our drive, turning the roads slightly muddy. My family and I turned to the right and saw roughly a dozen people, dressed in muted colors (flannel or wool we thought) just staring right through us, like we weren’t even there, completely oblivious to the rain. They were sitting on some boulders, just staring. We had two cars, both cars saw them, and both cars were unnerved. We all still talk about it. Weird.

By: Tommy91

Tommy91 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:53:48 +0000

Can’t get enough of this. Keep it coming!!

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:17:56 +0000

My “obsessive checking of Fatty’s blog” (O.C.F.B.) wants a Wednesday installment of Rockwell Relay race report! Guess I’ll have to wait until Thursday.

Sorry, real life got in the way. I promise a long post early tomorrow.

(Or, as it turned out, late tonight) – FC

By: Welnic

Welnic — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:02:36 +0000

This is great story. Thanks to everybody for posting their side of the story in the comments.

By: Rockstarster

Rockstarster — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:32:22 +0000

I guess you could have hit one, just to see if they really were undead. Cars don’t kill ‘em, do they? :-)

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:31:12 +0000

The Zombies.

We saw them. My Navajo friend says they are the “Ndaa Kaa ii” or walkers. He said there are times when they have don’t acknowledge you, they are on another errand. If they do acknowledge you, they have a message for you, but only talk to them if your heart is in the right place. If you get a bad feeling, it’s not a good idea to receive that message.

Anyhoo, that’s his explanation.

Another Blanding resident said it was intoxicated indigenous people.

We came up with a Rehab night hike.

By: Will Benton

Will Benton — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:42:59 +0000

I thought you guys were joking about the zombies! Did the SAGS have brains to offer the zombies? Poon

You know, we might have given them some brains if they had asked nicely. - FC

By: MLB

MLB — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:16:16 +0000

I have to agree with everybody else’s comments. The race report is awesome! Having such a evenly matched race, multiple racers points of view, Fatty’s incredible story telling ability, incredilble individual efforts on the bike…Awesome.

I still haven’t decided if the Zombies were a prank on you the racers, or your prank on us the readers. Either way it’s a lot of fun to read, and I’m waiting everyday for the next chapter.

Thank you.

From a completely different, unrelated blog from a different team:

We leave our lane to pass a cyclist and Kim has to slam on the brakes to avoid mowing down three (possibly four) people walking down the mountain in the opposite lane. Despite the fact that they were nearly crushed under three and a half tons of rolling steel and equipment they don’t even flinch or acknowledge our presence. They are dressed in dark, baggy clothes, tatters really and they look like extras from the film set of Walking Dead. Before Thad Kim and I have a chance to ask each other if we all saw the same thing we come upon two more walkers, then another two and a straggler of two after that. maybe a dozen in all.

- FC

By: Doug (Way Upstate NY)

Doug (Way Upstate NY) — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:01:12 +0000

At least they were the old school slow ambling zombies. The new school fast ones might have been a problem…..

By: rb

rb — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 04:31:30 +0000

Continues to be one of the best race reports ever…and not (just) because of Fatty’s writing. The multiple perspectives in detail and well written — a rarity, a first even. Actually HOPING for an 11-parter at this stage.