Tonight here in Colorado we were joined by a host of guest runners. The grey team arrived to the exchange point about 25 minutes late because their guest runners slowed them down. This means that we the Blue team would have to make up about 25 minutes which is not a problem at all for us since we normally finish about an hour each night. Melissa went out first and was joined by a gentlemen that just ran a half marathon the week before so he felt he was ready. Unfortunately after about 3 miles she had to take off to make sure we really did not fall behind. So what we did is we picked him up at mile 6 and then drove him to mile 9 and let him finish the last mile with Melissa. Next up was Victor and his guest runners. This time Victor was joined by two middle aged women that traded off and on each mile running with him so that they could keep the pace up whole time. This was actually a great plan because they both made it the whole way in time. Taeko was third and she was also joined by middle aged man that worked on numerous water projects all over the world. He joined Taeko for the first 2 miles and then she was told by the powers that be to pick it up, so she dropped down to running 6 minute miles until her 8th mile. After picking up this gentlemen he joined Taeko at mile 9 so that he could finish with her. I ran last as usual but instead of starting at 7:30pm we started at 7:42 so we had to make up 18minutes. During my run I was not joined by anyone so I could go out at a good tempo run through the rolling hills headed into Kansas. By the time my run was over I finished at 8:56pm. Blue team has done it again. We managed to have all the guest runners run with us an still make up all the time that was lost to keep the blue planet run on course! Way to go Big Team!

Song for the day “Now We Run” band- Steve Vai