Equipment to Check Out:

Here is some equipment that I found online and recommendations for those traveling up here:


1) Nathan LED Safety Strobe: $6.00: We will be running on public roads.  Though we will only need 2 of these strobes per van, at this price it is not a bad piece of equipment to have for yourself.  Between riding a bike or running at night/in low viz, this is a good piece of equipment to have.
(http://www.rei.com/product/785894)


2) Headlamps from REI, sorted from Low-Hi Price: Once again, we will only need 2 headlamps per van (total: 4).  However, some people may be less than thrilled to run with someone else's sweat on their headlamps.  Something to think about, however we will make sure that there are at least 2 headlamps per van.
(http://www.rei.com/search?search=headlamps&sortby=Price+%28Ascending%29&hist=query%2Cheadlamps)


3) Nathan Sports Reflective Vests: Each runner will be required to wear reflective vests while running at night (in fact, anyone outside of a vehicle at night will have to wear it).  The website above shows a brand of reflective vests that are fairly inexpensive.  I know that it makes some of us flash back to running in formation, however it's not a bad thing to have.  Having grown up in Montana and spent some time driving down back roads similar to what we are going to be running on, we are going to want to stand out as much as possible.  After all, everyone knows the few things there are to do in rural areas.
(http://www.nathansports.com/our-products/reflectiveled/reflective-led-vests)


Some recommendations for those coming from the "flatlands" (i.e. those who don't live at high altitude) can be found at the following link:
http://www.wildwestrelay.com/runner_information/low_elevation/index.html


I will be looking for more information to post on here from time-to-time.  Let me know if you find anything that may be helpful to other people.  We are all coming from different areas of the country, elevations, lifestyles, backgrounds.  As you will probably see over the next 9+ months, there is going to be a lot of information put up here.


Thanks,
Adam