Ragnar 2011 - Race Report
This is long over due and I'm sure I will not be able to do this race justice, but here are some rambling musings. I had not done a race in over a year when I saw a message from my friend Kim saying she was putting together a team for a 200 mile relay race called Ragnar Relay Del Sol. It was several months away and I thought it would be a good tool to motivate me to keep up my recently restarted running. Kim was very clear that this was a run for fun team and that it didn't matter how fast (or slow) we were. The plan to get my running motivation worked and I had several very good months of gradually increasing miles and faster paces. By the time race week was getting close, I decided to run another short race the weekend before Ragnar. The Lost Dutchman 8k was a fun race and shorter than any of my legs would be for Ragnar so I wasn't worried about this hurting my ability for Ragnar. I had a great race and was glad to be racing again. The way this event works is th