This is what we do

Run 200 miles. And refuel. Deschutes had a pretty good night and we would like to endorse (completely unofficial) the Black Butte XXVII imperial Porter. Nothing eases the lactic acid in the legs like 11% abv.

Made it to the Coast! Probably finished fifth overall

Ran in with our anchor Brent. Got a team picture in front of the carnage on the beach: closed because of high winds. Van 2 heroically battled the elements on the last legs! Looks like we averaged 5:55 min/mile pace over the ~200 miles of the race.

It was fun to go back and forth with a couple teams around our speed: initially GE (3rd) and then Bullseye running club from Maryland (4th).

The beach disaster scene

Made it!

Unofficially fifth. This weather has been nuts. The wind is blowing consistently at 20 mph, gusting up to 30. They actually *closed* the beach due to "flying debris". And the rain has ranged from light sprig showers to cloudburst in minutes. Even with all that, the anchors for van 2 wound up running strong closing legs.

Van 1 is done! Van 2 bringing it home

Having some local beers. We dropped to fifth place by a few minutes in spite of beating our projections. Stiff competition!

Go van 2!

Van 1 handed off to van 2 for legs 19-24

Holding on to 4th place

Dawit just started leg 14 in Portland

5 minutes down from GE, a few minutes up on a couple other teams.