The next three legs were really hilly and a couple of them were on gravel roads which made it really dusty. Karyn, John and Carissa destroyed them though, and at about 3am it was time for me to hit Leg 22.
It started to rain lightly just as Carissa handed off to me, which both kept me nice and cool and also created some great light effects in my headlamp. The moon was bright but behind the clouds and the raindrops looked like millions of tiny shooting stars flying at me. At least when you are running on 21 hours with no sleep ;)
The first mile and change was straight uphill but it's surprising how much easier a hill can be when you can't see it. Then it turned almost completely downhill for about five miles all the way to the exchange. I LOVE DOWNHILL. somewhere along the way it started raining harder and I ended up pretty soaked by the end of it.
After Jenny finished her second leg we stopped at the Natal Grange outside Mist. They did indeed have the pancakes out early, and they were awesome.
Doesn't look like much but I would have paid double the seven bucks they charged.
After Bruce finished leg 24 we drove ahead to the next major exchange at leg 30. This guy probably pays his mortgage for the year with what he makes serving coffee and food on this one day:
We are back in the van after a couple hours of "sleep". One more leg to go.
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