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COURTNEY: The Hood to Coast is the 'mother of all relays'-- created in Oregon by Bob Foote 30 years ago--

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in which groups of runners form into teams

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and they run from Timberline Lodge-- the main parking lot up there-- all the way to the beaches of Seaside.

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COURTNEY: We have 12 runners usually. Six go in one van, six go in another van.  

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Six go in van one. They start the run up at Timberline Lodge, they run their legs, then they hand off to van two.

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Van two's six runners run their legs, and then van two hands off to one,

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and one hands off to two, and then it goes until you get to Seaside.

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In between the vans that aren't running, their runners rest,

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lay in a field with sleeping bags, try to eat something, and that's what happens.

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My name is Peter and we are the Wolves-- hey, Peter and the Wolves became cute

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because so many of the teams have very clever and cute-- as well as some very interesting-- names which we won't mention.

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So Peter and the Wolves... somebody came up with it in the van. I don't know where it came from.

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The members of my my team are Peter Courtney, Bill Kernan, Ed Camacho,

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Nadine Wood, Sarah Lorenzen, Yuliya Kharitinova, Heidi Augee, Spencer Walsh,

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Gina Zejdlik, Doris Aponte, Carly Neal, Kaleena Tuffo,

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and more importantly, our drivers are Don Bonderman, van one, and Darin Silbernagel, van two.

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I think life is teams, and this is the last team thing I can do in athletics.

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I love the team part of it.  It also is always out there for me and I know every year I'm going to do this.  

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It keeps me physically so focused from a training stand point and a motivational stand point,

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plus the camaraderie-- not just with my team, but all the teams that are going to be out there tomorrow and all the runners.

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I just think there's no greater thing I've been on in my life

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that creates more of a team thing over a short period of time than the Oregon Hood to Coast relay.

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It is what it is. I need it psychologically, I need it emotionally, I need it physically... I just need it.  

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