On Friday and Saturday I took part in the 4th running of the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey, a 178-mile running relay race, which was quite a blast!

I was on a 12-person team called the Road Raptors, which was organized by Dave Sargent, one of my running buddies in Chapel Hill. We finished #18 of about 100 teams and we finished about 45 minutes faster than our target time of 24 hours.

I highly recommend this race to anyone who enjoys this sort of thing. See http://www.renotahoeodyssey.com/.

One interesting moment in the relay for me was when I met a guy wearing an Ironman Florida finisher hat. I started talking to him, and learned that he had done IMFL the same year I did (2007) and he finished less than a minute ahead of me.

It's a small world, this community of endurance sports enthusiasts ...