In total the race was 6 km (3.73 miles) and included 1 km down the hill of death at the beginning of the race, and 1 km back up the hill of death at the end of the race. Let's just say I didn't think I would make it back up the hill and I was fully prepared to live the rest of my life in the river bottom....at least until Bryan made it up the hill, got the car, and drove down to rescue me :)
I would like to say that being the youngest member of our trio, I bet both my mom and husband, but unfortunately that is not the case. Bryan, who is clearly in much better shape than me, completed the race with a time of 37:51:35 and came in 354 out of 1488 overall. My time was 40:40:35 and I came in 496 overall. My mom's time was 40:51:30 and she came in 511 overall.
My mom pushed me the entire race, left me in the dust on the way back up the hill and it was only on the final turn that I found my only remaining energy to sprint ahead of her, barley beating her to the finsh. Lesson? I need to work out more.... :S
