More adventures from Little Runner Boy and his Sidekick Glide… or How to make a peanut butter sandwich while riding a bicycle.

[Les]

I thought it might be interesting to some of you what a typical day in the life of running across the state of North Carolina entails.

5am
(LRB)--Get up, make sure legs are still there. Make sure legs still work. Make legs work and get you to bathroom

(Support team) Get up. Grumble at runner for making you have to get up at 5am :) Make coffee, go get coffee, steal coffee, bribe for coffee, sell your first born for coffee.

5:10
(LRB)take shower, get dressed, pop blisters that grew in the night, try to stretch a little

(ST) Get dressed, make peanut butter sandwiches, fill ice chests, pack truck (checklist—shoes, matt, towels, sandals for after run, food, Gatorade powder, water, first aide kit, ice chests, ice.

6:15
Get in truck and drive to start location

6:30 – 7am (get to location and GO!!!

7-10am …(LRB) Run run, drink, run, run, drink etc, etc…

(ST) drive one mile, hand out water/Gatorade, replace empties with new bottles so they are cold. Drive one mile.. repeat.

10am-
(ST) lay out matt, ( help little runner boy down to matt.) Fix sandwich and ensure

(LRB) stop running, get lowered on to matt. Take off shoes . Try to sleep ( 10 min) . Eat sandwich drink ensure. Get new socks.. get new shoes. Get help getting up. Yell at legs to go.

(ST) clean up site, fix /replace Gatorade, stuff smelly sweaty shoes with news paper, bury old sweaty socks at least 2 feet below ground and mark “ hazardous material below”.. go find ice

10:20- 12:30
(LRB) Run run, drink, run, run, drink etc, etc…

(ST) drive one mile, hand out water/Gatorade, cold towel, replace empties with new bottles so they are cold. Drive one mile.. repeat.

12:30
(ST)lay out matt, ( help little runner boy down to matt.) Fix sandwich and ensure and pepsi

(LRB) stop running, get lowered on to matt. Take off shoes . Try to sleep ( 10 min) . Eat sandwich drink ensure. Get new socks.. get new shoes. Get help getting up. Yell at legs to go.

(ST) clean up site, fix /replace Gatorade, stuff smelly sweaty shoes with news paper, bury old sweaty socks at least 2 feet below ground and mark “ hazardous material below”.. go find ice

12:50 – 2:30
repeat steps above

4:30 pm

(ST) get to hotel, get little runner boy into room and to shower.
(LRB) Take care of feet and blisters. Rest

(ST) Fill 6 - 1 gallon bags of ice, get lillte runner boy to bed. Place 6 bags of ice around LRB’s legs… while he ices down

Unpack and tidy up truck, replenish ice, wash out recycled bottles for tomorrow, take show.

7pm – go eat

8:30 – put little runner boy to bed. Go to grocery, replenish supplies.. bread, apple, ensure

go to bed

[Minnie Sue Douglas]

Exactly. Through in "try to crank up car, no dice, wave cars down on remote highway, thank nice man for going home and getting jumper cables, coming back and jumping car, head up highway to find LRB, drive to Winston-Salem with no AC, etc. etc."
All worth it.