PEPPERmint

During one of my yoga classes, the teacher brought some essential oils in. They always enhanced the practice and help us all to smell awesome. My personal favorite is peppermint. I use it most for sore muscles after runs and such. It's like mentos mints for your skin! Sunday, I put some on before my sunday nap. I rubbed it on my calves which were a tad sore from the RRR. I guess I didn't rub it in completely and still had some on my hands when I rubbed my eye. WHOOWEE, it was like a blast of cool that was way to strong on my eye. My eyes started to water hard core, the skin around my eye felt all tingly, and I couldn't stop blinking.
I know many of you were wondering if you can put peppermint essential oil on your eye, but don't even worry about trying it. I did, and yeah, not worth it.

Red Rock Relay

The Red Rock Relay has been my favorite relay to date. At first, I didn't think it could shake a stick at the Ragnars, but it's better...WAY WAY BETTER! Reasons why I liked it:

-Capped at 200 teams. It never felt crowded(well on the dirt trail but it lasted for 1 leg).

-The Finish. FREE SNO CONES! The finish was really relaxed, and it was easy to find the other van of people. 

-The scenery. I've never spent lots of time down in red rock country, but it was pretty.

-The temperature. Perhaps due to location, or time of year, or some other reason, but it never got really cold. Usually with a jacket I was fine, and for sure didn't need one to run in at 4am.

-The people. My van was AWESOME! I had so much fun. We all supported each other through the entire race. 

-Housing. It was so nice to have a house to 'camp' out at. I got the most sleep, a whole 3 hours this year. I don't sleep well outside, and the house was nice to stop at.

-Nimbus Gray. We had a Honda van this year and wowie. It never felt cramped. The back windows roll down which made cheering way fun. 

I didn't enjoy the port-a-potties. Maybe it'd be better with more, also some of the legs weren't well marked..and since there aren't lots of teams(some runs people didn't see any other runners), it'd be nice to have more marks on where to go.