It's hard to beat breakfast at 5:30am on race day.
Hey! Don't look so happy...
...the good folks in the kitchen window, and ...
...many others, were preparing our breakfast and setting up the tables for us long before we woke up!
The folks from Northwest Nordic and John W. let the breakfast settle as they wait for their bus to arrive.
Another group waits for their bus to take them to their late-start assignments.
The Hayward area, and the Hayward Senior Center (our annual Friday night and Saturday morning gathering spot), certainly received enough snow this year!