Sawtooth Relay

The Sawtooth Realy was on Saturday and lets just say I've never had so much fun running 10 miles in my life! These girls are a riot.  We loaded up on Fri afternoon, we could have been gone for a week with all the crap we had, 6 women.... We decorated the car with our team name and we each named our legs of the relay, I wish I had a picture of that, it was pretty silly. We got to Stanley and had a wonderful dinner that we each helped make. Then we all went to bed around 9:00 to try and get some shut eye. Try being the key word.  Nerves got the best of me and I layed there until my alarm sounded at 11:50, time to get ready and head for the starting line.

Here we are at the starting line:  Renee, me, Karla, Brittani, Jacque, Erin

Gooooo Houswives of Heyburn!

Here's Renee ready for the 1:00 a.m. start:

Check out #214 it looks like he's thinking "...hmmm I'm totally gonna smoke these chicks..." HA whatever dude it's Renee you're up against!

I was totally on a team full of ROCK STARS and then there was me. :)

I ran my first leg at about 3 a.m. At first I was worried about running in the dark but it was fine and I actually enjoyed it more than my second leg.  I ran 5.03 miles in 1 hr 6 min 54 sec I'm not quite up to running 5 miles straight yet so I walked a little too (ok alot :))

Here we are FREEZING our booties off at dawn watching for Brit to come in. YaY! it's finally light enough to take pictures.

Here's Brit finishing up leg 5 and Jacque getting ready to run up the summit! Checking times.

Yay! Jacque made it up now Renee is getting ready to run down

Jacque you are amazing!!

Here comes Erin that means it's my turn.

Okay gag! (me not you Erin...you are a beauty.) Ignore this picture I wasn't going to post it but it's proof that I actually did this thing!

This leg was 4.64 miles so...shorter than my first leg but WAY harder...mentally. :) Since it was daylight you could see the exchanges and I kept looking and looking and it was never there and my knee started killing me.  But thank goodness for Sport Beans they are seriously like good drugs.  They helped SO much thanks Courtney!  So I felt like I was dragging on this leg...after all I've not had a wink of sleep. But I made it into the finish line in 1 hr and 41 sec.  When I came in and Brittani told me my time I heard it as 1 hr and 41 min. I was devastated after all it felt like it had been that long. I seriously almost started bawling right there (my emotions were on the fritz anyway)  so I started apologizing  feeling like I'd let the team down, and they couldn't understand why I was apologizing.  About an hour later we realized the miscommunication and I almost started bawling again, from relief this time. :)

Here's Karla cheering Brittani in.

And here goes Karla on the last leg

Here we are at the finish line!!

 I had another "moment" crossing the line, I can't believe  I...I can't believe we...no, I knew that they could do it, but I wasn't so sure I could do it, but I did!

We finished the race in 11 hrs 23 min and 14 sec which is SO awesome I think!

This was such an awesome experience I can't wait to do it again!!!