The Relay
Oct 12th, 2003 (Sun)
Heidi, Felix, Lisa, Phil and Everett in the 2003 edition of The Relay.
Pics from The Relay, a running race from Calistoga to Santa Cruz. Our team of runners–Al, Everitt, Felix, Heidi, Herb, Lisa, Manuel, Mike, Phil, Sharon, Steve, and Tom did great and had a wonderful time!
We encountered our first "challenge" hours before the start of the race when we realized the first Chevy van we picked up from Enterprise had an ill-fitting back seat from a... Ford! We hence packed everything into Phil's own van, drove it all back to Enterprise, and then transfered the stuff into a Chevy Tahoe.
The Tahoe had its own problems, like not being able to fold down the middle row of seats to allow access to the rear seats. So Lisa and Heidi (my special recruits who did not let us down! :)) graciously climbed over the middle row of seats about 50 times during the weekend. "Good thing for your rock climbing skills," I remarked at one point. :)
[5 minutes before the start, 12:25pm] Phew! With less than 10 minutes to spare, we made it to the start of the race. Heidi (not shown) kicked off the first leg for us.
[4 minutes before the start, 12:26pm] Meanwhile, as luck would have it, we ran into Terry (Lisa's boyfriend), who was doing the race with the SF Tri Club. Here's Lisa in front, with Terry and another dude in the background marking up their van.
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