First time for me. I'm running the beach.

You'll enjoy it! I haven't run in several years, but I did in middle school and high school. I ran the beach before, and also 2nd, 3rd, and 4th legs.

The beach leg is the best for a variety of reasons.

1...its first and you are done in 32 minutes.
2...you are free to drink beer the rest of the day.
3...you are still running in a crowd so you dont look like a slacker if you have slow teammates that were left back of the pack.

Don't run it all hungover like I did.

How did you do Nelson?

I finished in 34:30, which is about what I expected. Training for it, I ended up at an 8 minute mile pace on the treadmill so my time wasn't too far off of that pace in sand.

I am by no means a serious runner and my team came in 186th place in the mixed division. We had fun and I am definitely participating again next year. Running on sand was tough, so I think I want to do a different leg next year.

Nice! I liked the 3rd leg the best. You get the hard part (going up the bridge) over first and I liked running through the laguna madre. Plus, it is usually early enough that it isn't hot yet.