Loaded with wilderness sugar cookies and stuffed mushrooms, I showed up to our potluck the night before and met the rest of the team. I was so excited to be doing my first Ragnar with the group of people making up the team. I was one member of a team of 12 and we had an awesome name.... On the Ragnar. I was set to run legs 8, 20, and 32 and being in the second van I slept in and ate a huge breakfast the next day knowing food was going to be very necessary to get ready for the next couple days.
My first run was around sunset on Friday and started way out in the north of Las Vegas. I ran a great pace with the sun going down and enjoyed my first leg of my first ever Ragnar. The second run was ironically only a few miles from my house and on part of a trail along St. Rose Parkway that I had been training on for several months and then it wound through Seven Hills which was also more familiar territory. The second run started around 3 in the morning and this was the run that Phil decided to drop in and show some support. My last leg began in Spring Valley area and took me by a hospital that I work per diem at and was by far my hardest run. It was only 3 miles, but the exhaustion had set in and the weather was unusually warm on Saturday afternoon.
So the motto is:
RUN. DRIVE. SLEEP? REPEAT.
and that is pretty much correct. You spend about 36 hours with the 6 people in your van. The sleep really is a ??? as there wasn't too much of that happening. By the third run, you really are operating on adrenaline. It is almost an indescribable feeling when it's all said and done, but definitely something that you will always remember. It doesn't hurt that they give you a pretty awesome finisher's medal and t-shirt that you can proudly wear as a badge of honor in the future. The experience actually inspired Phil to sign up for one in 2015 and I definitely look forward to my next Ragnar!
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| Van 2 Crew |
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| The team minus one runner who is on the course for our team. |
