Thanks again to Ninja for letting us ride with him down to Huntsville for Rocky Raccoon!  We all meet up verrry early Saturday morning which was race day to make the roughly two and a half hour drive.  We actually left Dallas at the time of the race’s start and hoped to get there just in time to see Catherine come in from her first of three 16.7 mile loops!  And we did in fact make it! We got to join in a set up right by the finish line so we could see her coming from a mile away. Ok, just kidding it was less than a mile, but you get the idea….

This was really our first time at an ultra and we’d heard about “crewing” and knew people that had gone out to “crew” a friend’s race, but what all “crewing” entailed we did not know!

Ha, mostly we sat around a lot and learned from other people “crewing” around us what to do.  Which was good because by the time Catherine came in from loop 1 Ninja and Byron that we’d been hanging out with had wandered off somewhere and it was just us with our racer!

Do you need food?!

Do you need your water refilled?!

What do you need help with?!

Are you changing shoes?!

We don’t know what to do but ask you questions?!

So again, do you need food?!

Do you need something to drink?!

And then she was off again! And we resumed our sitting and eating the food that Teal, the smart woman that she is, brought with her!  We are pregnant….we’re allowed to sit around and eat all the food! 🙂

We should also mention our buddy, Paul, was out there as well.  We did zero things to crew for him. Ha! Paul was pretty darn reliant on himself and the food tent for the runners.  Which also, holy cow, ALL of the food they have out there for these crazy ultra runners!  And then our girl, Cat, came in for the BIG finish! Of course she’d stolen Ninja’s jacket from him at an aid station so we were looking for the wrong color race attire.  Teal could tell she was coming solely on her gait and we were excited to see her after a few hours and finished with such an awesome accomplishment!

 

In case you ever doubted in this post that we were the most awesome crew people ever, well, here you go…..

 

Now we are just waiting for Catherine to tell us when her next 50 miler is so we can test our crewing skills again! 🙂  She’s a freaking rock star in our books!  We are lucky she let’s us even hang out with her! 🙂

One, last shout out, for that day goes to Jason of Cook Train Eat Race who completed his first 50 miler that day and in the time since this race  Jason has completed his first 100 miler! Freaking awesome! Who runs 100 miles?!

 

You ultra people are freaking crazy! 🙂  In a good way!  Hope you’ve enjoyed this blog post of a race that happened almost 3 months ago! We have such rock star friends!