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The Crew Perspective

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 How it all began... Have you heard about Cocodona, it is a 250 mile race from Black Canyon City to Flagstaff?  Oh yeah I have heard of it.  Well, Lynn is going to do it.  What is your plan?  Linda says, I am going to have this camper stove and he is going to eat his hunting food.  Okay, what else?  What else shoud I do.....oh dear. ]\\\\ Lynn does a race in Tucson and he had on a pack from Nike that he was going to use for Coco.  Let's just say it is cute for a 5k, not 255 miles.   We discussed an idea of where he wanted his pace to be, some goals and we printed out the handbook.  Seems easy enough.... Lynn's preparation:  print out some of the pages and highlight food options at aid stations.  Get out favorite orange bag.  Run a lot of miles to prep. In the days and weeks that followed I sent lists of things for Linda to get.  Things for his foot care.  Gear. Nutrition.  SO many little things.  S...