After getting a few hours of something we tried to call sleep we were up and running again. It was fun to cheer the team on again. Especially Hal on "you've got to be kidding me" and Tom on Ragnar. They are both awesome runners and did great on these hard legs! It was very fun to watch them Run Like Hal! At the end of Tom's leg I was there waiting for the exchange with the funky snow sculptures and abandoned snowmobiles. I got a nice salty kiss from him and started up the rest of that hill thinking this was the only part of this final leg that would be up hill. (I was wrong). I got up feeling good and started letting it go on the downhill. However, it was very downhill so it was scary. I didn't want to 1.go rolling down the hill or 2. trash my knees. So I was trying to run fast but keep in control. I could hear someone behind me flying down...I just hoped he wouldn't run right over me! He went screaming past me and I never really saw him again. Then I could hear one more person behind me. He ended up passing me on that downhill then I passed him on some flat, then he passed me on some down then I passed him on a major uphill. I thought he would pass me on the last big down hill but I had won the battle! I came in plenty before him! I am glad he was around though because I would have been completely alone without him. Mile 3 had a hill I wasn't expecting and I had to walk a bit there. My team happened to be able to see me feeling a bit frustrated there and tried to cheer me on a bit from the van. Then they saw where I was going to have to climb a huge hill that I REALLY wasn't expecting and they tried to wait there for me for a minute to cheer me on. They were'n't suppose to stop much on this road so it was kind of tricky but they knew I was going to need a little cheering. However, I don't think I accepted their cheering in a very happy way when I was having to go up that hill. I wasn't feeling the love and I wasn't giving the love back either. It was here that I passed that guy again though. And now that I think about it, he passed me one more time after this on a down hill but then I passed him one more time before leaving him for good. I never saw the "one mile to go" marker on this so when I saw the people who were calling my number into the finish line I was pretty thrilled I was almost done. It was fun running fast into the final chute! Mile 1 9:10 (uphill) Mile 2 7:06, Mile 3 7:23, Mile 4 10:04, Mile 5 7:42, Mile 6 7:23, Mile 7 7:15 and the final stretch (last .08) 6:08 AP: 7:59 and overall time 56:30 Passed to Doug and the rest of us hit the shuttle to the finish line. Van one went home when they were done so we ran through the finish line looking like an ultra team ha ha! Then the next cool thing was to see the clock that said our time was 23:39:29. How cool is that? Except that it was 6 hours wrong.....they had us with an 11:00 start instead of 5:00. So our real time is 29:39:29. | 
