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Photo  14:  About 3/4 of a mile into the ascent , I looked back and took a photo . The canyon wall shown is part of  the same canyon wall in photo 13... we are just climbing up the other side of the river.

Photo 15:  This photo was taken looking forward from the same area. Note all the wildflowers in the foreground.

Photo  16:  About a mile or so into the ascent, I notice someone is behind me. At first I thought it was Wes, but then I noticed it was Kevin. It turns out he had decided to change shoes and socks at the Footbridge aid station after all.  Shortly after he caught up to me, we stopped for a   photo session.  The photo is taken looking back at that same canyon wall.

Photo 17:  A photo of Linda in the same general location

Photo 18:  Continuing forward, this ascent seems to have several false summits... this is the view from one of them.   The saving grace of this steep ascent was the refreshing  breeze which would cool us off.

Photo  19:  We are now heading toward Cow Camp aidstaiton, and we are entertained by yet another interesting canyon wall.  ( there was no shortage of wildflowers on this course!) . I fell again in this section, around the 25-26 mile mark.

Photo 20:  One of our walking breaks, Kevin continues ahead... we are heading  toward  the DryFork Aid station.

Photo  21: A photo of Linda  at the Dry Fork Aid Station, where we had access to a second drop bag. It was necessary to climb a significant uphill to reach this aid sation.  We could see the aidstation for several miles as it was located on a saddle point between two higher points on the horizon. The sunlight would reflect off the vehicles at the aid station , making the location easy to spot. We arrived to  Dry Fork more than hour before the 4pm cut-off.

Photo 22:  At about 40 miles, I felt something take a turn for the worse  in my right shoe. I stopped to investigate and found that a blood blister behind a toenail had popped and the nail was digging into an adjacent toe. With the steep long  descent into tongue river canyon a mile or so away, Kevin said I should try to fix it somehow. Kevin asked some other runners near us if they had any duct tape, and they did not.   So I grabbed a section of the orange pastic ribbon used to mark the course and wrapped the toe  with the ribbon.  Amazingly, this treatment worked wonders. The "race ribbon first aid" held up for the rest of the race and I had no foot-toe  pain.    (this photo was actually taken at end of race).

Photo 24:  A photo of Kevin in the same location.  Kevin decided that he would like to have a final sprint when we reached the finish line at Centennial Park in Dayton. So we spent part of the descent discussing the final sprint.

Photo  23:  A photo of Linda at the top of Tongue River Canyon ...at  about the 42 mile mark.

Photo 25:  A photo looking down into the scenic Tongue River Canyon and the valley beyond where the town of Dayton is located .  The finish line is in Dayton, about 10 more miles from this point.  We now begin the brutal , quad-killing and seemingly unending descent into the Tongue River Canyon.  My quads really fatigued about 70%  the way down this canyon.  The fatigue  probably would have been worse had I not done those training runs in May over in Austin and the surrounding Hill Country .

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