Notes
After a long wait, lots of riding in a van and only 2 hours of sleep the night before I finally had my first leg of the relay. I was the first runner to have my entire leg in the dark, starting a little before 8pm.
I kinda took off fast for the first mile and then settled in, my legs felt fresh and the fatigue seemed to disappear. Picked off a few runners not long after starting and then hit a streak of feeling alone on the course before finally seeing a few blinking red tail lights after cresting a long hill.
Having runners to catch was fun but all were running at a much slower pace so I was blowing past them. It would have been fun to have evenly matched teams near by to race.
I thought this felt like the fastest leg but ended up being my slowest pace out of my 3 legs.