Laughter is inner jogging......: are you Ragnar ready?

Ragnar? What is that you say? It's an insane race with 12 team members that run for two days. Why? No one knows why you really you do it other than you want to get really close with friends

(or strangers in my case) they will know more about you after a few hours.

(fact 14,000 people ran in this race this weekend)

How did this happen?
Well, let me tell you a story.

Mike has been signed up for Ragnar for a while since he did it last year. He hurt his knee a few weeks before the race. He didn't think he would be able to run. I started to do a bit more training. In a few weeks he was feeling better, he told me that he wouldn't need me to take his place. I was happy that he was better but sad that I wasn't going to get to run.

My friend and former neighbor posted on Facebook that her team was needing a runner. (Wednesday)

I was crazy and said that I would do it. I got all the information and we were planning to leave Thursday night to go to Logan because our start time was 5 am. Mike had said that he was cool with me doing the race. Now that we were both racing we needed to find a babysitter. I'm so grateful my sister was able to stay at my house with my kids. (THANK YOU)

Our Van signing in at the beginning.

Starting line at 5am Friday morning.

I left for Logan, Thursday night.

We got to our hotel at 9pm. We were all excited that we couldn't sleep. 3am came really fast. We needed to get up and get signed in before 5am. Our first runner started we drove along the race to help her. I got to be the first driver. Around 9 am it was my turn to run.

I couldn't believe that was doing this race.

This is what we did this weekend.

Check this of the bucket list

Giddy with joy

Last year I volunteered and now I was actually running it. My first leg of the race was all up hill. I had a 1200ft elevation change. Oh did I mention that it was in dirt with cars following me up so they kicked up even more? And there were lots of rocks! One I wanted to be really good. I did that leg in 1 hour and 48 minutes. I ran the whole thing and was proud of my run.

Getting ready before my first run

After our first major exchange with van 2.

My second leg of the race was I feel was my best leg. I was feeling good, then I started to get a cramp on my side. I was steady and did it 52 min. Still a 12 min mile.

My last leg was good too. I started crying before my last exchange, I was happy that did the race, I have been wanting to do this race since the first time I saw Heather (my SIL) run the race 2 years ago.

I did it.

By Jordanelle

the hand off at my last exchange

For the love of chafing

We met up with our van 2 and once we past off to them we have some time until we would see them at the finish line. We spent $20 to get a room at the Swiss Alps inn in Heber City. We could shower, clean out our car or take a dip in the pool and hot tub. I jumped in the pool. I really did a cannon ball. It felt so good. We got ready and went to eat some lunch and do some shopping at the outlets. I wasn't really in the mood for shopping (shocking, I know) We made to the finish line to meet the rest of our team.
Our official total time for 192 miles was 35(hours):49 (min).

I got the sticker and an awesome medal

MikenRhi together to again after running our first legs of the race

Snowbasin with Michael aka Gingy

The only time I got to see Mike was at Snowbasin. I was so happy to see him. Maybe next year we will do this together. Many people say that this is worse than child birth. I don't think child birth was all that bad and Ragnar wasn't that bad either.
Any where you go you see these little Ragnar stickers on cars.
I have wanted one and GUESS WHAT? I got it. My car will be awesome.