We headed out and in the first mile we knew it was going to be an even stronger day for us. It was a long 24 mile day, or so it was suppose to be. We had a really tough 2 mile climb that brought us up to 11000 feet but after that we knew it was a nice rolling course with awesome single track. At 7 miles we really started to push the pace and before we knew it we were passing runners we have never been up with before. We were definitely going to have our best finish by far. That was until 18 miles. Then it finally happened, surprised it took this long but one and half races at TR and I finally got lost. We blew by the turn and put on an additional 3 miles in total. It hurt, the sails lost there wind for a few minutes after going hard with good success for 11 miles. We pulled ourselves together and tried to finish with the same pace and enthusiasm we had earlier, I think we did. It was another stage finish that drops you out off the trail onto an exposed road for a grueling ~3 plus miles. Today you could see the finish for the whole 4 miles which made it even worse. Life here is good, a mini town of tents, trailers and canopies are set up everywhere. Runners and staff scattered everywhere, working, relaxing and socializing. As hard as this is it probably provides the best mental break anyone here could have. We have 2 nights here this year so that's nice for runners and staff to not have to pack up again first thing tomorrow morning. It a straight up straight down day tomorrow, tough on the legs. We'll evaluate the altitude effects on the big climb and see if we can' t continue adapting and getting stronger with each day.