Preparing for Ragnar  -  Jan 12th, 2010 3:52pm

No, its not the name of some deity who will reign destruction upon us in 2012 - John Cusack has already done this.  Rather, The Ragnar Relay is a race I'll be running next month.

Much bigger than my last run, the Ragnar is a 200 mile relay race from Prescott to Mesa.  Each team consists of 12 members and each team member will run 3 legs of the race.  The remaining members are carted around in 2 vehicles which drop/pickup at the various hand-off points.  The whole shebang should take us around 36 hours to complete and I plan on being little more than a pool of goo at the end of this one.

Fortunately not all of the legs are even and I agreed to join this fiasco on the condition that I took the shortest of them.  A 5 mile up/downhill battle, then two 4 mile runs on fairly flat land. I'm probably more at fault for joining McCoy on this one than he is but I prefer to think of this as his doing as I sleep better at night.

I'm now running about 3 miles - 3 times a week.  This is a huge improvement from where I started on the 10k, but I feel like I need to get that up to about 5 miles a day before I'm good this time.  You can track my progress/damnation on my runkeeper page if you like.  Wish me luck :)