Wasatch Back question

[Sea Chicken]

I have a coworker that is running in the Wasatch Back relay. I'm not. But, I will be on vacation at a cabin near Heber with my wife's family that weekend. I thought it might be fun to run along as a pacer during her night run. She is runner #9 and expects to run at Coalville about 4-5am.

My question is, would it be dumb of me to even try? Running 9 miles at 4am isn't a problem, but would I be able to find them? Would I have to wait forever? Would parking/returning to my car be an issue?

My wife isn't thrilled with the idea anyway, so I want to find out if I can do it without messing up the vacation time too much. Any thoughts from those of you that have done it before?

[Teenage Dirtbag]

I think it would be a bigger pain in the butt than it's worth. I wouldn't do it.

[ERCougar]

I don't think it would be a huge deal to find parking at that exchange. The problem is, it's in the middle of the night and you don't know when their exchange is going to be. You'd have to be in communication with them to see if they're ahead of or behind schedule and you'd have to find your way back to wherever you leave your car. That'd be kind of a pain.

[bluegoose]

I've never done the Wasatch Back , but I did pace my FIL a few years ago on the Wasatch 100. This was before cell phones were everywhere, so I would imagine that would make it a little easier now.

I had the 50-62 mile leg, which put me starting at about sunset, or so we thought. We really had no idea when he would show up. We ended up waiting about 2 hours for him to show up at the checkpoint. It was tough. Runners would come out of the hills every couple of minutes, and they all looked alike in the dark - headlamp, backpack, shuffling gait.

If the wasatch back is anything like that, it may be tough to meet up at that time, but I'm sure you could make it happen, especially if the runners carry a phone.