WBR leg 21 - 10 miler in the dark. 5 on the roads, 5 on "the trail" AKA - dirt road. I really enjoyed getting on the dirt and getting away from the noisy roads. The nearly full moon reflecting off the water was fantastic. Thought it was funny how many people complained afterwards about the "rough, rugged, uneven trail". Ha ha. I was hoping for some singletrack with some rocks! Not this buttery smooth dirt road :) I was happy to be on dirt though. One lady even complained that (on the following leg) her shoes were 'ruined' from the 'stream crossing'...Umm if my shoes were ruined everytime they got wet or muddy I'd need a new pair every day. We won't even mention that the 'stream crossing' was like 2 feet wide! Ha. Took a nice easy pace, the couple of guys that passed me close to the middle I ended up re-passing near the finish.
This was our team mascot "Schmee" - he rode on the back of the van the entire way
10 miles - 1:28:13 - 8:48 pace - 500 vert WBR leg 33 - "Pre-Ragnar" leg. This is the first of two legs that takes you up over Guardsman Pass. Took it nice an easy and ran the whole thing (aside from about 10 power hiking steps around part of a switchback). Weren't a lot of people at first, and then I slowly started catching them, they seemed to get more bunched up the higher you got. I passed one guy who was hiking his way up, and since I had my watch on, I knew how far we had, so to try and encourage him a little I said "Come on man, only a third of a mile to go!" To which he gave a huge groan and said "are you serious??" So I don't think it helped out all that much! 
3.2 miles - 36:55 - 11:32 pace - 1500 vert
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