Day 3 ending

It was another awesome run this evening, a beautiful 15.5km run starting at the Pretty River. Jack rolled off a very fast previous leg for the Muscles team, so I was eager to get some time back. The leg started with a long climb and had a 200m net gain, 400m total ascent. I was gunning for sub-1h, but went 1:05 with the grass and rock slowing it down. Still, a great run and I'm happy how well I recovered from the morning!

The big goal of the evening was to get David finished before 830pm so that we didn't have to send two runners out in the 'dark zone.' If you start betweeen 830pm and 430am, two runners from each team have to run for safety reasons. David scorched his 20km leg in 95 minutes, but missed the cutoff by 5 minutes leaving us scrambling a bit and having to fill 4 night legs. That means 8 of our 10 runners at night and I lead off the morning with a 20km leg. To grab back a little more time, I'll be running another 25km leg in the evening, so hopefully we can bridge the gap!