Ragnar - end of leg 2 through leg 3

We completed those late night legs for our team in the early morning hours...to be honest, I have no idea what time it was.  We felt like we had done pretty well (we didn't even get lost in the van during leg 2) and now needed to rest up again before leg 3.  We were also pretty low on food and water and such, so...off we headed to the store and the final transition point.

We crashed in another high school gym and got several hours of sleep and then were up again for our final legs.

Jaden's third leg was a relatively short leg:

Jaden, decided that with the short leg and it going somewhat downhill...and it being his last leg, he would go ahead and see if he could go even faster.

With that, he took the bracelet from Garrett and took off.  The support van was waiting for someone to finish in the bathroom and then we got in the van to follow.  Now, granted, it was a short route and the van couldn't drive very fast as there were increasing numbers of runners on the road as we got closer to the finish...but Jaden beat us to the next transition point!  He ran the last 2+ miles in 6:32 pace and was waiting for me to jump out of the van to get the bracelet.

Worse, now I had to run back up some of the decline he had just run down:

I despite how I appreciated relying on the course's notes from my run the previous night...I do NOT think this was easy despite it only being 3.3 miles...that hill at the 2.5 miles was horrible!

And while we still needed to support our runners, Jaden and I were done...or so I thought :)

Jaden decided to support his friend Alex, who had a 9 mile leg at the very end by running part of it with him...so, he hopped out of the van and ran another ~3 miles with him to complete the race.