Ever have a lot of people to thank and give credit due for a great job done....and FORGET to mention them? Ever do that and the overlooked person is your spouse? Um....guilty! Dana organized all the aid station stuff way into the night and wee hours of the morning Saturday. Then, she spent the afternoon cooking hundreds of hamburgers and hotdogs. Then, loaded much of the start/finish stuff into the truck. The finish of McMurtry could not be the same without her.
David Wood, from the Oklahoma Trail Runners and Scott Nutt ran the North Canyon aid station which is by far the hardest to get to. Christin, one of the Crew Chicklettes, ran the South aid station again this year. This rest stop is the last one the runners see, and whoever works it is out there longer than anyone. Sandra, the most famous of all the Crew Chicklettes, ran the most difficult aid station of all. The Peninsula aid stop it right in the middle of a complicated intersection. The runners hit this at about mile 2, and again at about mile 4. Both times, the runners need to get what they need, and turn right. Sounds easy, but so many runners over the years have got confused, got lost, gone crazy, or worst! I call this the McMurtry Triangle. Sandra had one person tell her she must have a twin out at one of the other stations.
(Sandra DOES the work of 2, but she is the one and only!) Thank you guys so much for your hard days work!
Finally, the Leap O' Doom. One of the runners from RunnersWorld called the Leap O' Doom like the Grand Canyon on steroids. Jon Gambino said, "The Leap O' Doom was epic! It was almost FEET wide!"
We were fortunate that no lives were lost crossing the Leap, and no one was seriously injured. My only regret is that we did not have a photographer capturing everyone's brief moment of soaring across the crevice. Maybe next year....
David Wood, from the Oklahoma Trail Runners and Scott Nutt ran the North Canyon aid station which is by far the hardest to get to. Christin, one of the Crew Chicklettes, ran the South aid station again this year. This rest stop is the last one the runners see, and whoever works it is out there longer than anyone. Sandra, the most famous of all the Crew Chicklettes, ran the most difficult aid station of all. The Peninsula aid stop it right in the middle of a complicated intersection. The runners hit this at about mile 2, and again at about mile 4. Both times, the runners need to get what they need, and turn right. Sounds easy, but so many runners over the years have got confused, got lost, gone crazy, or worst! I call this the McMurtry Triangle. Sandra had one person tell her she must have a twin out at one of the other stations.
(Sandra DOES the work of 2, but she is the one and only!) Thank you guys so much for your hard days work!Finally, the Leap O' Doom. One of the runners from RunnersWorld called the Leap O' Doom like the Grand Canyon on steroids. Jon Gambino said, "The Leap O' Doom was epic! It was almost FEET wide!"
We were fortunate that no lives were lost crossing the Leap, and no one was seriously injured. My only regret is that we did not have a photographer capturing everyone's brief moment of soaring across the crevice. Maybe next year....
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