Our adventures up there included:
- saturating rain
- mosquitoes
- a runner who was too fast for us to be completely set up in time (we had water set up, but he stealthily sped through when we were back at the car getting more stuff)
- lost runners
- falling trees
- mosquitoes
- eating more green olives than the racers did
- Bruce's Famous Turkey-Avocado Wraps (tm)
- an exciting mid-race break to Howe Sound Brewing for lunch and some Three Beavers and King Hefe
- bears. I know they were out there. Watching us. Waiting. Sniffing. Really.
- me being able to take off in the morning and run a couple of relay legs as part of a team of race volunteers (hey, we placed 11/26, not bad for a throw-together team! Thanks Jess, Bill, Kim and Mischell)
- driving home Sunday afternoon, having a quick 2-hr nap, then heading out for my Mom's 70th birthday party.
- the fun and satisfaction of helping our friend and RD Wendy Montgomery, as well as all the racers out.
I wrote up a much more detailed account which can be seen over at the LaSportiva mountainrunning blog site - please head there to read more!
Yummy.....
p.s. green olives are awesome. I had these for the first time at an aid station at about mile 60 at the Massanutten 100, and thought I'd found nirvana. You know you want some. Next year we'll bring the gin as well if you still need convincing.
