I kind of thought that the PEAVINE FALLS RUN on July 4^th would have it’s largest crowd in 26 yrs since the 4^th was falling on a midweek day and not many people would be driving. The largest registration prior to this race was 349 people in 2002 and we had 401 sign up this year. I even purchased more t-shirts so that we would not run out so soon, but obviously we ran 5:out. The weather was really good – not all that hot. “Tria” was a new sponsor this year and gave us several cases of fruit and a large batch of store baked cookies. Coke donated bottled “Dasani” water and bottled “Powerade” which was a lot more convenient that using cups, but I never thought how heavy the load would be on my poor little truck. The bed of the truck was full to the top of bottled water and plus I had 6 10 gallon coolers for the water on the course. I couldn’t go much over 45 MPH on the interstate. That could not be said for this year’s winner, Scott Strand, who blistered the course in 43:20 (5:17/MI) and breaking the course record by 1:20! 2^nd place 5 minutes back was Stephan Payne in 48:25 and Tony Herndon was 3^rd in 49:37. The 1^st Female was Mary Jo Schmaltz back to her “speedy” self after a long lay off in 55:11, 2^nd was Stephanie Wilkins in 1:01:01 and 3^rd was Sarah Viamonte in 1:02:10. The 1^st Master was Jeff Clark in 52:48 and the 1^st Female Master was Carol Pritchard in 1:03:23.