Bring your A game is easier said if you have the background information, well we have it. We are Team CSC. We are the very few. very proud,the kitchen roadies.We have been travelin to trail races for the RD Prusaitis family now and wait for other CSC teamies to break out on their own to cook! So at 6:00pm as in years past we open with our spaghetti extravaganza, with tossed and pasta salad.Looks like a good line up and it came this year with a second punch. There's plenty vittles for one and all. But today the black pots have added an ambiance of fire, let's say Bandera style. The race brings on 280+,Scotty, Amanda, our Homecoming King and Queen. Last Chance Saloon is ready, Big Bill has slit the Pig, smokin his happy self. This is not a Zoo, we are all workin hard , on the weekend, for a passle of ultra runnin banditos.I could be drinkin by now but this is for the runners, and the volunteers do work, so we prep for lunch, burgers, that's Britty Ann there, Brisquet is a cookin and Terry's got the cookie detail.Slammin Doug is talkin with the health official Dawn,really just the Medical attache, as she wants to cite Sammy V for a water violation. non potable water or potable? CSC keeps a team of lawyers back at Penn Field to keep the C.O.B at bay.No count, no case.The soup must go on, and word is out, good as Texas and homedown delicious. CSC will rock for you on soups at night, so to the night they become, chicken, beef , veggie,in the black bottoms over the smokin wood.Preppin breakfast is biscuits and gravy, upside pineapples, taco challenge, migas eggies, hotcakes, atole,oatmeal, and what would yo mama say if ya didn't eat your breakfast? We send out fuel to the aid stations and constantly clean what needs a cleaning.Terry is real good at keeping the sink empty, so is Pat for that matter.The race is a work in progress that keeps you entertained with it's high drama. The Lodge is buzzin with music and aromas of black beans n arroz and beef stew. We have a couple of Blue Ribbon dishes with the Tortelini Trail Dust soup by the Raymond family and Cowboy Chili by Duane Lewis, these dishes set out at lunch and dinner are devoured in a wink of an eye. Looks like their in the book.Sleep a little so you have just an edge at the next task, kinda like doing a 48 hour, better rest a little so you chip away again at the task at hand.Looking at it from the angle you don't get to run this event ever cause your a volunteer fades with the know how of helping your mates reach the finish of their endeavors. Trying both sides of ultraliving keeps you balanced, when you go through the stations your reminded your not the only one a having fun.So your running and not having fun, a volunteer is going to tell your are a lookin good and you can do this thing.Then your on your way. HCTR melts runners and volunteers back and forth till Bandera has evolved into a fine running machine.There you have it, sore and crippled like 100K, 50K, and 25K folks lifting that bale and loadin up them trucks and break dancin down the tents. So by noon on Sunday things are getting wrapped up.Daddy Joe and Mama Joyce need their rest too, and runners and volunteers are pitching in now to finish of this as well.Shan is having a time of dispensing the left over goodies that are to be divided, some for her, some for poor college students. What's a girl to do? She just wants to have fun.Doug and I can just look and give words of encouragement to her plight.Well don't let the dust settle on your trail shoes, kick out your jams! Other races comin up to run or volunteer. no question. Don't forget if you've never been a volunteer give it a whirl. You might find out something you never dreamed possible. If you a mind to help you'll might forget about what's weighing on ya. You'll then run a whole lot faster. Well unless of course you ate to much of your own cookin. But hey that's good too, nobody trusts a skinny cook! You just gotta ask? Have you ate yet?