We checked in with the staff as we had to physically show them our gear and then in return they gave us some safety flags for crossing the street and a bunch of other race related gear and promo swag. Both teams had to have a number of safety vests, flashing lights and headlamps between them as no runner could be on the road at night without all of these items lit up and on their person. Her ability to decorate our vans far surpassed anything the rest of us could do so she just did the whole damn thing and we loved her for it.Īfter we got ourselves packed and our teams divided up into the two vans based on which leg we were running, we headed over to the race start for some administrative stuff. She's an artist and calligrapher and lots of other really cool things. Well, actually, if I'm being honest here, Julia painted our vans. Those of us who are local scooped up everyone who needed rides out to the start, all of us rolling in around 1:30 where we promptly grabbed coffee and food and then painted our vans. Seattle, Austin, Philly, Manhattan, and, of course, the Boston area.
We had people fly and drive in from all over the country. First stop, Hull, MA where the race was set to begin. Let's go ahead and start on Friday afternoon. Even still, it's a long one so you might want to grab a cup of coffee before you dive in. It will undoubtedly be tough to put it all into words and I'll do my best to avoid going into too much detail.
Today, I'm going to try to give you a sense of how things unfolded over those 24 hours. So, needless to say, we were pretty pleased with ourselves. Pardon my French, but that is a shit ton of teams. We also finished second overall out of the 462 teams that competed. Our team, otherwise known as BirdmachineCC, was the first women's open team across the line, finishing in blazing time of 20 hours and 26 minutes (average pace 6:41). The outcome? In a nutshell, mission accomplished. Our one main goal, for obvious reasons, was to snag ourselves a spot on the podium, preferably first. As I mentioned in my last post, this past weekend twelve us, along with our amazing crew, took on the Ragnar Reach the Beach Relay in Cape Cod as part of the recently launched Oiselle Podium Project.
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