While waiting for Goose to finish his last double, Mav made himself useful:

Maverick finished up his last double leg:

And sent Goose off on the first half of his last double.

The Piranas that have recently finished can often been spotted near the van trying to keep from stiffening up:

Or rummaging through the food stuffs in the back trying to find something that sounds good to eat on top of too many miles:

And speaking of the Pirana van, it is a mess:

Mav got off to a great start going through the first leg of his last double 2 minutes faster than pace for 6.3 miles.

BFG did a great job running his last double leg! He smoke the beautiful Kentucky hills as he ran through the horse farms and rolling terrain.

In a short but incisive interview with the now Notorious BFG he had this to say to his adoring fans:

Meanwhile, Weeble continues to make new friends:

And a shot of the parking situation:

BFG made the exchange point ahead of his predicted pace (trying to make up the hour they stole from the team baby!)

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While the boys were waiting Mav tried to describe in visual form how the team was feeling:

BFG may have gotten one of the most picturesque legs in the whole race:

Unfortunately, the faster 12 man teams have caught the Piranas so the relay exchange points are a complete disaster and the race organizers did NOT plan adequately for the crowds. Fun, Fun, Fun.

Weeble finished his third double with flying colors about 7:30AM!

After a 1 hour wait, Weeble took off in the dark and got the first half of his third double done. It was too dark and the boys were too tired to get any good pics.

Turns out that the “race official’, which is a fancy name for a overzealous volunteer, threatened to disqualify Team Pirana. Weeble took up the fight and got on the phone with the race director and threatened to publicize the rampant stupidity going on and went on to voice several other thinly veiled threats. Mav finally got on the phone and was able to get the race director to admit that they were simply unprepared for the pace the teams were running. This is a very serious logistics issue because they should be aware that teams will slow as the race wears on, not run even pace from start to finish. Ultra teams like the Pirana’s can be expected to slow even more. They should have been ready for this. So T3 finished 10.7 miles averaging  8:30 pace and arrived to find this:

So they held the Pirana’s for an hour at the exchange point and then let us go. They are not counting the hour against them, however, they had just managed to work back to their goal pace and now with the added hour are on pace to finish at 7:15 PM. If anything at all goes wrong they could very well miss the 8:00 PM cutoff. Only time and mile will tell.

Weeble is having stomach issues but headed out for his final double leg determined to do his best under whatever circumstances he was handed. Goose is having his usual cough and barf thing and is eating and drinking too little and laying still much. Mav is working through some pain and funk issues. T3 has some quad twinges from the last set of fast uphills, but is currently high on running, no sleep and caffeine.