When MaryAnn ask me a long time ago if I wanted to be on her RAGNAR team I was so excited. Ragnar is like the mother of all relays. Ragnar metals are AWESOME and this was the one that started it all celebrating its 10th year.
Wasatch back was the first RAGNAR they did, (the creators are from Utah) They only had 22 teams the first year and this year there were 1500 teams.. Crazy huh? More crazy is that there are that many crazy people. I really don’t get it even though I am one of those crazy people. Like it is miserable, and you are sleep deprived, and you are running in the dead heat, or the middle of the night, and you get blisters and sore muscles and ride in a van with a bunch of stinky people, and your stinky.. and you sleep in a gym with hundreds of other people or on a lawn, or where ever you can. You pay a lot of money to do it. but it’s awesome!! It’s one of those things you just can’t explain. Maybe teamwork, silliness, camaraderie, amazing accomplishment, Fun, dancing, singing, food, Laughing, Friendships…. are a few words I would use to help someone understand, but you just really can’t understand until you do it. And in the middle of it your like…. “What the Heck, this isn’t fun!” This is about 2am when I’m waking up from sleeping on the gym floor to go run in the cold dark night all alone. But at the end it’s awesome and you want to do it every year! It’s really an unexplainable thing… Like Ragnar makes you bi-polar!
Three Of us fishies were on our RAGNAR team. It was a good time. We had a fun team name; MUGGLE POWER. This name gave us Celebrity Status with all the Harry Potter Fans around. We were ask many times to get our picture with people.. ha ha.
Us same 3 are headed into another relay this weekend. Completely crazy or hard core? Not sure... We just love to run.. or maybe we just love to hang-out with our friends and eat and dance around in the middle of the road. ya, I think that's it!! (Becka you hit the nail on the head, we are crazy, but we love it!)
I loved Ragnar and the girls I ran with. We had so much fun. I love that we are all starting to get each other's personalities and just have fun. It cracked me up because Becka and I kept laughing about how we would tell people we were about to run from Logan to Park City and everyone was shocked. Haha. Neither of us had been to Logan and we didn't leave until around 3:00 PM the day before the race. Everyone kept saying "You do know Logan is on the other side of the state...right?" Yeah... we like to drive far away places to run. We kept laughing about how we spend time away from our families and a lot of money to go run and not sleep! We could be spending this money and hitting the malls or spas. Nope! Haha. Instead we like pure torture! It's the beauty of running I guess.
I was seriously amazed by how pretty Logan and the surrounding towns were. It was honestly so beautiful and such different scenery than I'm used to seeing in Utah. I loved each one of my runs and even had an I hate you moment in my first run. (You've always got to have an I hate you moment in running to make you realize how much you love it).
The most bizarre thing about the entire relay was falling asleep in a high school gym with about 6 people and waking up to the gym completely covered with sleeping bodies! Almost an eerie feeling! I was thinking about how trusting we are as runners. Would I just randomly sleep in a gym with that many people in any other conditions? Nope! But the running community is just something else.
So glad I was able to do this race. It was fun to meet new people and see new sites!
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