Going to the relay race Hood to Coast was going to be logistical challenge as I drove from New York City to Clarkston, Michigan on Wednesday night and then caught a plane out of Detroit Metro on Thursday night. Changed planes in San Francisco and landed in Portland Oregon at 12:30 am Friday Morning. Then waited there until 10 am for my teammates, from the team called Last Legs, (a mixed masters team of 6 women and 6 men) to pick me up and headed up to Mt Hood for the start of the "Mother of all Relays, Hood to Coast", 197 miles of awesome scenery, sleepless night and lots of runners. I did a relay race just to get to the start.