The Best Kind Of Crazy!

Friday our van set out to run the Ragnar Relay Race. Shauna and I put together two teams of amazing friends who are as crazy as we are. We had 4 vans and 24 people to run in partners 189.5 miles (they added 1.5 miles last minute, at the end of the race) from Logan to Park City. We were lucky enough to be van 2, so we left late in the morning, van 1 had to go sleep up in Logan the night before.

While waiting for our bibs, our first Ragnar Princesses got ready for their leg.

This is Shauna and my first leg of the race. It was 81 degree's of pure heat!

Here we are ready for the bottom half of the Ragnar hill. The first 1/2 mile is flat or a little down hill, but then you run into the monster. Lots of straight up!

We got about a mile in and were already dying, it was so steep. Our van just started passing, and we had already told them we didn't need water support, that we'd be fine. It was only 3.6 miles. Boy were we wrong.

We stopped them and begged for ice, April and Jaqui jumped ahead and were waiting for us with water, wet towels and ice.

I had to ask them to stop every 1/2 mile, and they were there every step of the way with relief. Kelli, Misty and Kristy were in the van taking pictures and pumping us up for each 1/2 mile we had. We had the greatest van (I'm sure each van thought that theirs was the greatest).

Lots of amazing people doing hard things and surprising themselves that they really are stronger than they thought.

As we're running at 3am in the morning, just under 10 miles, and I haven't slept for almost 24 hours (I got up at 4:30am on Friday) Shauna and I are discussing how we're not ever doing this again. It was fun but we're tired and it's stressful and, and, and.

But look at this group of friends!!
That's enough to change our minds and want to do it all over again.
Who's in for next year?!

*thanks to Kelli for all the pictures I stole.