1.6 miles total for the day of warm-up and cool down- not so good in that area
5.2 miles on my second leg in 31:49. I got the stick at at 4:29 a.m or so. This leg climbs up for 2-3 miles and then kind of is flat/ mini rollers for the last part. I ran this fairly good. I felt like I got out good and was able to work the climb up. Then once it was leveler up by the lake I was trying to get a good race going. But we had some food at the last major exchange and it wasn't sitting very good. Plus traffic was soo tight that it took so much time to travel durning our off time that I didn't any rest at all yet. So I'm not doing very good and (like times of the past) I start dry heaving durning the last 2 miles of this run. I never spew my guts out but it sure would have felt better if I would have.
Now we make our way through the traffic again up to Heber City to the last major exchange. My stomach is in such a mess that I opt not to eat anything here and I just want to lay down and sleep. So I roll out the bag and get a short 45 min's of powerful sleep. Now the sun is up and it's a beautiful morning. Nice and cool, green everywhere, hot air balloons, and mountains to run over. We start our leg and make our way through Heber to Midway and to the base of YHGTBKM and Ragnar. We have fun while Adam and Seth run those two legs, and it was just a really relaxing time... other than the fact that I had one more leg left and felt DONE. I really didn't want to run my last leg because I was soo drained I couldn't fathom trying to run let alone hitting some race pace miles. But Logan came rolling down the mountain and handed it off to me and now was the time.
5.1 miles on my last leg in 28:26, start time is 10:25 a.m. Pretty much all right in Park City. It starts on the base of the mountain and flows down out of town to a park by the freeway. Basically all gradual downhill until the last mile where you hit a dirt trail and climb up out of the creek area and run over to the park. It is pretty sad that I pushed as hard as I could on this leg and only hit an avg. of 5:34 pace and I avg. 5:34 pace for the marathon last fall. But I was spent and just glad to be done. Well to conclude: A great trip! WBR isn't easy to say the least. Every leg is very demanding and will leave you scratching your head as to why it was so slow. But that's what makes it fun... now that it's all over of. We had a lot of laughs in our van and some great personal performances. Dave knocking out 45 kills in one leg, Seth running Ragnar with a PR and new record, Adam making YHGTBKM look like child's play, Taylor with his blazing fast tennis ball shoes, Logan pounding out everything and always being so positive, and me just chillin letting those guys make me laugh. Just Making Memories! (SS 106.7)
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