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Last weekend I was part of my good friend Kiki's So Cal Ragnar Relay team Running C2C. (A team for her crossfit gym in San Juan Capistrano Crossfit to the Core!) It was my 5th So Cal Ragnar and my 13th Ragnar Relay.
For those of you not familiar with a Ragnar Relay: The Ragnar Relay is a long-distance relay race a la' Hood to Coast. The average team has 12 runners, and the course is around 200 miles long. Each runner runs 3 legs of 3 to 9 miles, and the race takes an average of 30 hours to complete. The runners get from exchange to exchange via two passeneger vans. While one van's runners are running, the other van is resting and trying to get some sleep. For more info, check out this link.
My Teammates: Our fearless leader and my good friend Kiki led us runners in Van 2, which included me, Iron Woman Guin, comic relief Jack, thee Kevin, and John. (Who was running with a cast on his left arm. Play hurt!) The interpid Brian was our driver, letting the rest of us concentrate on running duties. We comprised van two, runners seven through twelve.
First Leg: Gettin' Ultra
Because I had asked Kiki for a lot of miles, she assigned me the runner 7 position. (Got the handoff from the last runner in van one!) My first leg was the longest leg on the entire 200 mile-ish course: 12.1 total miles, from Orange to Irvine in Southern California.
I got myself good and psyched for this run. Only three weeks before I had attempted to hit my half marathon PR at the Oakland Running Festival, (Missed it by three minutes,) and I decided I wasn't going to run this just for fun, I was going to try and kill it!
I stood in the chute along with all of the other 12.1 miler runners, waiting for my teammate Steve to charge in. I'm always antsy when I'm waiting for a runner to come in at an exchange, but this leg was making me extra antsy. I've run a longer Ragnar leg than this one in a previous race, but that was for my ultra team. This time I had eleven other runners waiting for me to kill this distance, and I was determined to keep it as short as possible!
( And I'm off! )
For those of you not familiar with a Ragnar Relay: The Ragnar Relay is a long-distance relay race a la' Hood to Coast. The average team has 12 runners, and the course is around 200 miles long. Each runner runs 3 legs of 3 to 9 miles, and the race takes an average of 30 hours to complete. The runners get from exchange to exchange via two passeneger vans. While one van's runners are running, the other van is resting and trying to get some sleep. For more info, check out this link.
My Teammates: Our fearless leader and my good friend Kiki led us runners in Van 2, which included me, Iron Woman Guin, comic relief Jack, thee Kevin, and John. (Who was running with a cast on his left arm. Play hurt!) The interpid Brian was our driver, letting the rest of us concentrate on running duties. We comprised van two, runners seven through twelve.
First Leg: Gettin' Ultra
Because I had asked Kiki for a lot of miles, she assigned me the runner 7 position. (Got the handoff from the last runner in van one!) My first leg was the longest leg on the entire 200 mile-ish course: 12.1 total miles, from Orange to Irvine in Southern California.
I got myself good and psyched for this run. Only three weeks before I had attempted to hit my half marathon PR at the Oakland Running Festival, (Missed it by three minutes,) and I decided I wasn't going to run this just for fun, I was going to try and kill it!
I stood in the chute along with all of the other 12.1 miler runners, waiting for my teammate Steve to charge in. I'm always antsy when I'm waiting for a runner to come in at an exchange, but this leg was making me extra antsy. I've run a longer Ragnar leg than this one in a previous race, but that was for my ultra team. This time I had eleven other runners waiting for me to kill this distance, and I was determined to keep it as short as possible!
( And I'm off! )