Raul and I had "lights out" at 8:30, to try to sleep as much as we could before the 4 a.m. Kyle Amos and his family showed up at the motel at about 7:30 p.m. I had a keg of homebrewed India Pale Ale in the back of my vehicle, so I threw the tap on it, and Raul and I had a couple of pints of beer and a bag of cookies each to nibble on while we watched TV and got ready for an early sleep. We stopped at Walmart first, and picked up a couple of bags of Pepperidge Farms cookies. We ate well, and then headed south 22 miles, to our motel stay. We hung around there and had the great pre-race supper fixin's hosted by the Kansas Ultrarunners' Society (KUS). Fellow Trail Nerd Gabe Bevan was going to have this be his first 100-miler, and he looked ready for it. We had the pleasure of meeting some new ultrarunners and running in to old buddies, as well. Raul and I got to race headquarters and registered for the race. We left in a convoy of two vehicles "loaded to the gills" with supplies.more on that later. It's about a 2-1/2 hour drive from Kansas City. We headed down to Cassoday, Kansas on Friday at noon. I try to stay in (at least) 50-miler shape year-round, but I'm getting over a pretty severe injury from 7 weeks ago, so I wasn't sure how I'd do. It was originally an idea that Raul Flores had put into my stupid head a week previously. Last Tuesday, I finally decided to do the 50-mile Heartland "Spirit of the Prairie" run.
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