Ragnar June 16-17

Back in June I ran Ragnar with my friend Jodi, her husband Rich, and some of their friends. On Mother's Day I walked in to Relief Society and Jodi said, "Mel I have to ask you something! Rich just found out that he is going to be out of the country during Ragnar do you want to do it." Yes.  I had from May 9th to June 15th to train. I go to the gym all of the time but I hadn't really been running so that very next day I started running. I ran into Jodi two days later at our sons baseball game and she said there is a 90 percent chance now that Rich will be in town but we won't know for a couple of weeks. But my friend who is suppose to run Ragnar with us is injured and she might need a replacement too. I kept training waiting to hear if I would be running, and if so what legs I would be running. Rich found out that he would be in town, but Jodi's friend really wasn't able to run. Her husband also had a slight injury and wasn't able to run over 3 or 4 miles at a time so he was taking his wife's legs and that ment I would get his legs. He had 2 very hard long legs, and one hard leg. I kind of started freaking out because I had only been running for a couple of weeks at this point. So I started training tons of uphill. The week or so before the race Rich saw my legs and offered to switch me. Thank goodness! My first leg was 3.8 easy. My second was 7.0 hard it was all down hill. I was so worried about running uphill I didn't really do any downhill training oops. I was so sore after my second run. My third run was 5.8 miles moderate it was mainly all uphill but just gradual uphill. We had such a great time. I fueled my body way better than I did when I ran the Red Rock Relay a few years ago and didn't get sick.

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We were in the second van!

Our whole team at our 2nd Exchange. Our runner waited a second to snap a picture.

After the race!!!!

Rich and Jodi