A.J. Hungerford wanted so much to make the second annual, Bar Harbor-Portland, Rock Lobster Relay, he flew back in time from a business trip in Boulder, Colorado. And at one of two Wiscasset stops on the race Saturday, he liked Sarah’s Cafe’s cinnamon rolls so much, he said he had to take a picture of them.

“It’s amazing,” the Portland attorney said about the roll he was finishing at 5:46 a.m. near the former custom house on Water Street. Hungerford’s team, the Racemobiles, back for year two, was raising money again for Cumberland Legal Aid. It gives University of Maine Law School students experience and helps people who can’t afford a lawyer. “And that’s so important in this state,” he said.

Minutes earlier, Camden’s Lindsy Evans of the Strato Tanker Roadrunners team with Maine Air National Guard members like herself, a senior airman, ended a leg that took her over the Donald E. Davey Bridge from Edgecomb to Wiscasset. “Gorgeous,” Evans said about the view coming into Wiscasset.

“The bridge was beautiful,” said Brandon Owens of Portland and Your Mom’s Team. “There’s some scenic views over here.” Asked why he ran, he said, unlike some of his teammates who had to because they were member Gwen Paradis’s family, he volunteered. He liked the team aspect and the camaraderie that comes with that, he said.

Teammate Gabriel Paradis of Lowell, Massachusetts, said besides being Gwen’s brother, he was in it for the challenge of a big race. “Plus, the beer and lobster rolls sounded pretty good at the end (in Portland.”

Alison Shell of the Washington, D.C.-based team Capital Crawlers was running for two. As teammate Laurence Frierson happily encouraged her to share, she is about three months pregnant. She and husband Jake had just announced it to the others. Teammates passed Frierson a banana to eat. He had just finished a nine-mile leg.

The Wiscasset Waterfront Committee manned the waterfront stop of the 200-mile race.

“My brain says, ‘Why are you up? You should be in bed,’” committee member Dick Forrest said about the early morning event. Forrest later walked up to fellow member Susan Robson and told her the committee had voted that next year, she will wear a lobster costume.

Robson, having some oyster crackers, said hosting the stop was serving the community and earning the committee a $500 check that will help the waterfront, with decisions still to be made on how.

The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce was three miles south on Route 1 Saturday morning, hosting the other local stop, in the Shaw’s parking lot.