How It Works

So, we have a tentative set of leg assignments now. To refresh anyone's memory, if you forgot/didn't get them they are:
1- Mike, 2- Allison, 3- Carrie, 4- Laura, 5- Pat, 6- Josh, 7- Kat, 8- Kristi, 9- Judy, 10- Kristin, 11- Dave, 12- Heather

And in case anyone was unclear on how the whole relay will work, I will use those assignments to try to explain it. So at about 10am on Friday, September 26, Mike will be at the starting line, Allison, Carrie, Laura, Josh and I will be with our van in that area, and everyone else can either be there, or can be at Exchange Point #6.

Mike will start running, and the rest of the members of Van 1 will get in the van and drive up ahead, either to somewhere further along the course to cheer him on or directly to 7.7 miles further along the course ahead where his leg ends. Allison will eventually be there waiting, warmed up and ready to go, and he will hand off the wrist strap (I think it is like a slap bracelet, or at least it looks that way in the videos) and she will take off and do her 9.2 miles. (Longest leg!) In the same way, Carrie will get the handoff and do her leg, then hand off to Laura, then she will give it to me, and I will to Josh. At the end of his first leg, Josh will hand off to Kat, and Van 1 is done for a little while while Van 2 does just what Van 1 did with its 6 people.

Van 1 can then drive ahead to points on the course and cheer, but people that have done it before recommend going to your next start point and getting some rest, food, a shower and such. Remember, you have been in a van for a good 6-7 hours other than when you were running, plus you are up for another leg in 6-7 more hours... and then again. The whole thing is probably going to be about 30 hours if we do our estimated 10min/mi pace based off of the estimates everyone sent me.

So, Kat goes, then Kristi, Judy, Kristin, Dave and then Heather hands off to Mike at exchange #12, Van 1 is back in, Van 2 can go rest up, and we do it all over again. There are three full rotations, and then we are in DC and done!
I hope that made sense, and if you have any more questions, just post a comment and maybe someone who does not suck at explaining as much as I can tag in to clarify this whole dealie.