It wasn't always a great time during the actual relay, but looking back on it now that I've caught up on my sleep, I had a blast. We've already signed up for next year, and we're going to try and keep the team together.
We started the thing on Thurs night at my family's cabin in Liberty. We were joined by fellow CG'er ThatSportsFan, who turned out to be a hell of a nice guy, and a decent table tennis player, too.
Car one took of for Logan about 10:30 am on Friday. Car one was guys from my ward, and one of the guy's brothers. I'm the guy on the far right.
Anyway, our first 6 legs went by pretty uneventful. I ran leg 5, which is a little over 7 miles on a trail up Avon Pass. It's a tough leg, but manageable. My mistake was wearing trail shoes that I've only worn once before, and I ended up with a blister covering the entire bottom of my right little toe. I popped it at the cabin and tried to wrap it as best I could, but the fetching thing hurt.
My second leg was started at about 2:30 am. It was ok, but by this time all of the really fast teams that started after us began to catch up and pass, which is a blow to the psyche, but whatever. At the end of my leg my foot hurt so bad I just wanted it to be over.
We ended up sleeping in the van for about 3 1/2 hours before it was time to go do our last legs. We had kind of a weird stomach thing that went through our team, and everyone was a bit sick to our stomachs. I think a big part of it was just fatigue. I finally got the baton from James to start my last leg. I wish this pic had been taken about 3 seconds earlier, because as he was finishing, the big guy did a perfect cartwheel, which was pretty cool.
FINALLY DONE!
I swear I wasn't checking out the chick stretching out in front of me.
We did kind of a funny thing at the finish. Our team name was "Our Wives Think We're At Work", so we wore shirts and ties to finish the race. We had a few people ask to take our picture and we got a lot of laughs, so I guess it worked out.
My bro in law was in charge of car 2. We were both glad it was over.
Anyway, it was fun. Overall, we finished in 28 hours, 7 minutes. Some 11 hours after the BYU team, but still in the top 43% of all finishers. For a hodge-podge of weekend warriors, we did pretty good. I was talking to a guy on our team last night, and our goal for next year is to take 3 hours off the time. We'll see what happens.