Notes
Red Leg, Round 1. Leg 15 of the race, 25th of leg 15s. Third on the team and pretty consistent.
The red loop is more technical than the yellow loop, but there's about 1.5 miles on both ends where you can open up the throttles since it's just fire roads/horse trails. The first 1.5 is extremely runnable, even in the wet. Then between 1.5 and 5.5, it's not really runnable at night unless you can absolutely bomb through trails.
Absolutely RANCHED my left ankle with about a mile and change to go. I was coming down a hill, hit a slick patch of mud, and I think then hooked a hole with my left foot. Somehow, in that process, I didn't get my hands out and managed to hit the ground shoulder, hip, and right outside calf first. I slid a bit in the gravel and as I impacted, my right calf locked up. I'm pretty sure that was because I tried to catch myself, but had no shot at it. Managed to finish the loop with light jogging, but the last two miles were much slower, even with the open trails. Finishing this loop, I was confident that the final yellow loop would be okay, but that the final red was going to be a problem. (Foreshadowing!)