what do you do when you run 3 miles out and three miles back for 6 and a half hours. well for one, you laugh at the people who are running it twice as far as you. this very boring but interesting (not to mention very well planned) race known as the
Orange Curtain
this race starts out at 6:30 and it is three miles out past the bathrooms at the park then the first of three underpassings. another bathroom comes along that you can get to by climbling through a hole in the fence. then the wooden bridge. next up is the pony farm with it's smells and then the second underpassing known as the tunnel. we get to pass Walmart and then yet another underpass before finaly getting to the turn around. on the return trip the scenery is exactly the same. to the other side you can see the cement river bed, not much water yet...
because of the lack of scenery, we take pictures of each other and find various ways of entertaining ourselves. i can not imagine running the 100K and my hat goes off to the 6 hardy souls who managed to finish, out of a field of 20 who entered.
