The Coombs Family

I decided to give the Cascade Lakes Relay another shot. The first year I did the race, I didn't know what to expect. I was a little sad there weren't more teams, no cell reception for most of the race, a lot of the race is off-road, and the heat was terrible two years ago. I co-captained a work team with my good friend Jacquie and we got this thing going. We camped at Diamond Lake the night before the race and this year there were only 9 million mosquitos per person instead of two years ago when there were 90 million per person. So I went home with significantly less bites. We also had two work teams, so we got to camp with more people. We got to camp sooner and enjoyed a great sunset. We also had two very large 15 passenger vans, so no squishing! I was breast feeding two years ago and had to pump & dump in our little car, which also made that harder. This year, I was a free woman with no worries. And I knew there were no stores along the way so I brought more food. My wa