Wasatch Your Back

A few weeks back I participated in my second annual Wasatch Back: Logan to Park City 190 mile 12 person (running) relay race. Yes, I know it's a mouth full.  Anwyays a bunch of us who ran it last year decided that this year we wanted a little competition, so we put together two teams (24 people) so we could race against eachother.  On our team we thought it'd be fun to split it, so van 1 was all girls and van 2 was all boys.  Turned out it was genius.

Van 1:

We had a caboodle, we read trashy magazine, we ate (healthy) homemade cookies, we had girl talk for 27 hours straight. We supported our runners better than you could imagine. 

I was runner 5.  I had a nasty 7.5 mile straight uphill climb over Avon pass.  The scenery was beautiful, but the dusty road and the heat at 1:30 pm climbing over that pass... Not beautiful.  As I came up the last hill to exchange with Krista we both got a little teary eyed. I was SO happy to be done with that leg of the race. Thanks for the support Krista!!!!

I'd like to give a shout out to Mr. Bushnell who set up a huge 10 man tent for us, so we could get a good nights rest of 3 1/2 hours of much needed sleep.

You may ask how can running through the heat of the day, all hours of the night, with minimal sleep, stuffed in a small van for 27 hours, no showers, no flushing toilets, be fun?  It may be inexplicable, but we had the time of our lives!

Turns out both teams ended together... Oh and we took 20th place!

Candid shot, all tuckered out after the race. Don't we look pretty?

P.s. while I was writing this blog post I found our team from last year "Team No Pants"  was featured on active.com.  See link and scroll down.  Pretty funny we're famous and we didn't even know it.

http://www.active.com/running/Articles/Run-Wild-at-the-Ragnar-Relay.htm?page=2