Wes Mantooth cant hang

I ran leg two through south Dade county starting around 400 and ending around 524 pm. The leg was 9.3 miles from the Homestead/Miami speedway to the middle of empty farm fields near the edge of the Everglades. The run started into a wicked west wind, but the path was nice, flat and straight. I knew after 2 miles that I would need water very soon, but had not brought any with me. My Georgetown "ultra" friend from leg 1 was carrying gatorade and gave me a swallow to hold me over. About halfway through the leg I crossed US-1 in Florida City (Glad it was still light out based on the streetwalkers I passed). After this point the jogging path ended. I saw my support van and flagged them down to pass me a water bottle, which tasted awesome! The running path from this point consisted of jogging next to a busy highway with no shoulder along a steep drainage ditch filled with shin-high weeds. Sometimes I would give myself a break from this terrain by running at the edge of the plowed fields. This was barely better than the ditch-side running however, since the field edges were filled with plow-scree containing fist size rocks and small potholes. Eventually I turned on a narrow dirt road and the foot-torture was over with about 1 mile to go. I handed off to Dan and he got to continue the offroad adventure by running next to a flood control canal through the everglades - at night! -Andy