RAGNAR: I ran 3 legs officially. Ran a 4th leg unnoficially. My first leg was a 5K (3.3 miles), and I was so goosed up to run Friday afternoon that I set my personal record 5k time of 18:50. Second leg was 11.5 miles in the middle of then night from Morgan. Ran it very well. i think it is funny how the RAGNAR culture is into counting how many people a runner passes, calling them "kills". I passed at least 55 people on this leg, and was passed by only one guy. He was moving very swiftly. He was the only runner that passed me the entire day. When I got in to the exchange where my sister took the next leg, I had planned to run it with her. I told her to go ahead while I drank a cold Pepsi and went to the toilet. I started 10 minutes behind her, then ran hard to catch up. I never caught up to her. She finished the 7.5 miles about 5 minutes ahead of me. I was getting tired and sore. That was one 19 mile run for me. My last (official) leg was from Homestead, and the climb up toward Guardsman. I ran every step, completing the 4.4 mile leg in about 43 minutes. I was the only runner running the entire hill and I must have passed 40 people. After that I was done. Spent. I t was hot and I was tired. But, I got back out and ran/hiked another 1.5 miles with my sister as she took the next leg to complete the climb up toward Guardsman. I enjoyed the running part of RAGNAR, but not the hours and hours of downtime and sleep deprivation. I woud probably never do RAGNAR again.
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