Tommy and I ran in the Ragnar Wasatch Back 192 mile relay race over the weekend. Ragnar is a 12 person team, each person runs 3 legs varying in miles and difficulty. The Wasatch back relay started in Logan at Utah State University and ended in Park City at Park City High. The 12 people are broken up into 2 vans each with 6 runners. We were in the second van. The first van stared at 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning in Logan and we had to be in Ogden at 10:00 a.m. to wait for our first runner to start. Tommy ran a total of 16.3 miles and I ran 16.4 miles. This is the first time either of us have ever been in a race, but we loved it!! One of our friends called us about a month and a half before the race and asked us if we wanted to do it. Tommy did not have very much time to train, and a shin split going into the race but he did AMAZING!! I had a hurt I.T. band going into the race, thankfully we were both still able to run. Hopefully next year we can both be injury free and do even better. A few times when we were only going on a few hours of sleep and running at 2:00 a.m. we were wondering what the heck we signed up for, but we are SO glad we did, and are hoping to do it again next year. The boys really did not seem to miss us either, since they spent 3 days and 2 nights with grandma and pop having LOTS of fun! Thanks mom and dad for taking such good care of the kidos! We finished the race Saturday afternoon and could not wait to have a good night sleep, (since we spent the night before on a hard gym floor and only slept for 21/2 hours)
The gang from van 2, right before our first runner started
Tommy right before his fist leg
Showin’ off my Ragnar tattoo, right before my first leg
Courtney handing off to Tommy, on his first leg
Run baby, RUN!!
My fist leg, Tommy checking on me to see if I need a drink. (The van would “Leap frog” you, they would drive a little ahead and wait for you to pass to make sure you did not need anything and to cheer you on.
HOORAY!! hand off to time to Phillip
Jonathan, Courtney, Justin, Tommy, Me and Phillip, looking a little more tired than the last picture. We all just finished 1st first of 3 runs.
We don’t have any pictures of our second legs, since Tommy ran about 12:30am ish and me and 2:00am ish.
Hanging out at one of the check points, waiting for our runner to hand off.
Tommy getting ready for a “KILL” that’s what they call it when you pass someone
The view from 1/2 way up Guardmans pass, the freaking mountain that I had to go up!
The top of Guardman’s pass
Justin handing off to Jonathan for the last and final leg!!
The awards ceremony (Tommy is admiring his!!)
way to go!!
ReplyDelete