I swore I would never run this race again, but was talked into it after Dean died. Originally Jameson had put together a team of fast master's runners called the Mangum Masters PR. We decided to run in honor of team IronDean and our van consisted of all original BBK runners. The bad thing was we had a 3:00 pm start time. We started with the super fast high school teams. It didn't take long before we were the very last runners. It was nice to have the exchanges basially to ourselves for awhile, but I missed the competition.
I was runner 6. I started this leg at about 8:00 pm. It was 6.9 miles. I finished off the 1.5 miles uphill of Avon Pass. Then I had 3 miles of steep downhill until it flattened out for about 2 miles. It wasn't worth me getting injured on the uneven dirt road with switchbacks, so I was pretty cautious. I finished that leg in 57:33. I didn't see any other runners on this leg. Average pace 8:21.
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