Best Weekend of the Summer
I was so graciously invited by one of my BEST friends ever Katie Bryson to join her on a Ragnar team for the Wasatch Back this weekend! Before I did a Ragnar, I only had some vague idea of what it was, so for those of you who don't know I'll explain Ragnar a little. Each team of 12 has two vans with 6 runners each. Each runner runs three times, so all six in van 1 run a leg, then all six in van 2 run a leg while van 1 rests/drives to where they pick up the race again, on and on. The legs are of varying distances/difficulties runners of varying experience and in-shape-ness can participate. You start Friday morning, run/drive all night (we slept 3 hours), and end Saturday afternoon or evening depending on how fast you are. Doesn't that sound like fun!? Their motto is something to the effect of run, eat, sleep? repeat which about sums it up I was the last runner in van one, so I didn't run for several hours after we started. My first leg was like this