RAGNAR!!

I decided I needed to do something hard. And lucky for me I have a friend named Lori, and she does hard things. She won me over with a video she made. It was 20 weeks of training. The first day of training was to run for 15 minutes......and I almost died. I'm not even kidding, it was emabarrassing. I told her if I could run the least amount of miles I was in. Long story short, it was a lot of awesome and a little bit of miserable. Kris did it too!! Running approximately 196 miles in roughly 36 hours. We had two teams of 12, in 4 vans. My van had to be in Chattanooga at 5:30am, I think we slept a total of maybe an hour and a half. We had a baby in our van, I was worried, but honestly he couldn't have been better. I ran 10.5 miles total. First and second legs were awesome, I ran faster than I trained, felt great. The last one I cried, and wanted to quit, and wondered why in the heck I was doing this. It was the lack of sleep talking. Luckily for me, I have an awesome husband. I rounded that last corner thinking, "I just need to go in the parking lot, have a good cry by myself and I'll be fine." instead I was greeted with my hubs and my friends making a tunnel for me to run through cheering for me. I cried different tears. It was so hard for me. I need to do hard things. I need to push myself. i worked so hard, and I felt so proud. i didn't even mind that every single person in my van was A LOT faster than me. They didn't care either, they were so supportive and enthusiastic and positive. I love them.

Kris was a BEAST!! I was really worried because between work and school he had no time to train, and he was running 17.9 miles!! The longest he had ever run in his life was 4 miles. I was relieved every time I saw him. He had so much fun too. We are planning on doing it again. Probably because we're crazy.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 or maybe it was the video......