Ragnar!

I have more history to catch up on but I just have to post what is happening currently...
Amber and I ran our first Ragnar relay last April in Southern California. For those of you that aren't familiar with Ragnar it is a race promoter that puts on ultra-relay races. The races average 200 miles and are run by teams of 12 or 6 or as few as 2 team members. As you may well imagine it takes teams anywhere from 20 to 36 hours or more to complete such a distance. I think it is the most fun I have ever had running!
Amber and I decided we wanted to do one so we began trying to put together a team but without much success. Eventually we found a message board where other people were looking for people to complete their teams so we signed on with a bunch of people we didn't know and just jumped in with both feet.
As I said, it was a blast. We met a bunch of great people and ran our tails off.
Briefly, the race is divided into 36 legs that range from 2 to 11 miles (give or take). Each team member runs 3 legs. For example runner #1 will run the 1st, 13th and 25th legs. Runner #2 : the 2nd, 14th and 26th, etc.
So you get a rest between each of your legs but one of your legs will be run in the middle of the night. Some teams do it with one big van and they just sleep in the van. Our team did it with two vans. 6 in each van so our van did legs 7 to 12 then we had a long break until legs 19 to 24 and then 31 through 36. I think we got more sleep that way. Amber ended up running about 14 or 15 miles and I ran about 20.
It was an amazing experience. So much fun!
Since then we have worked as volunteers for the Ragnar race in Napa and we ran in the first ever Ragnar trail relay. More on that later.
I can't say enough about Ragnar. Every part of our experience with them has been great! I'll be posting a lot more because I am going to be a Ragnar Ambassador which means I'll be promoting Ragnar at other events and doing everything I can to spread the word.