The countdown to the 7 Sisters has begun. T-minus 4 days.
Final packing for the race is tonight.
The butterflies are starting too.
weather.com is regularly checked and is looking good and bad. Forecasts call for everything from sunny and 70 (really bad) to wet and high 40's (too cold) - all within the same 5 minute period of checking.
There is a Nordic saying: "There is no such thing as bad weather. Only bad clothing."
As a corollary: there is no good weather for this event except sunny and beautiful about 20 minutes after everyone gets done with the course.
Too cold or windy or dry on the exposed ridges is not good. Too hot or humid can cause some serious problems too. Just no place for aid stations except the water-drop half way over and the aid station at the midway.
I am personally hoping for light rain (no lighting) and 50ºF. That will make the rocks nightmarishly slick, but with rain forecast for all day Friday, it won't really matter.
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Since the rains the last two days, *everything* has turned green ~ including the stuff being expelled from my nose. That won't make a tough course any easier.
I feel bad for the people around me as this stuff comes flying out heading up Bare Mountain. *Hopefully* it will all be expelled by the time I hit the Low Places.
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