I had a great time with the family and new friends from the engineering firm kimley-horn (KH) this weekend at the Reno Tahoe Odyssey adventure race a 178 mile around the clock event.
Nikki, my daughter, was on another team “hot cross buns” she doesn’t really know where the name came from. The team was composed of her friends and a mom and dad they did great. She ran the first section so hard that she barfed – but kept running – that’s my girl.
My team of 12 which included two (KH) vans made it through with a couple of glitches that we worked out along the way. When you are running day and night on a marginally marked course things happen including getting lost for short periods and missing hand-off points occasionally. We did both. We slept twice for a couple of hours - once on Walmart parking lot islands.
Chris, my son, was on my team and in our van – he had the hardest segment in the race a 7 mile run over a steep mountain trail. He did great but messed up his heal and was unable two run his last two segments - our teammates took over for him.
Running at altitude is interesting and mentally challenging – you feel like your lungs are on fire so you think - I can’t keep going like this – but your legs are not that effected. So the trick is to mentally separate the two and keep hammering the run.
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