Ragnar Del Sol

RAGNAR DEL SOL

February 25-26, 2011

Over the weekend I participated in the Ragnar Del Sol - 2 vans, 12 runners, 200 miles - Wickenburg to Tempe. 

D.C.S. Trailburners

VAN 2 Members

Me, Amy, Leon, Chester, Zane, Kris

Runner 7

Total I had 11 kills.  Kills are when you pass someone.  One guy passed me...I tried to catch back up but he was way too fast for me.  As a team we had over 30 kills, but I think we would have had more if we hadn't been one of the first teams.  Most of the time there was only one other team ahead of us....we started pretty early so teams that started later happened to finish after us but they finished in less amount of time (make sense?)

My Teammates 

Chester (Leon's Dad), runner #8

Zane (Sammy's soccer coach), runner #9

Leon (the stud), runner #10

Kris (Leon's gym buddy; great runner; super nice), runner #11

Amy (Leon's wife), runner #12

Runners 1-6 were in the other van and they were all really fast runners and all seemed to be related to Leon and Amy somehow or another.

At 3:30AM, we had a 5 hour break while van 1 was running.  We tried to get some sleep in the wrestling room at Fountain Hills High School.  The big open space on the left side of the picture is where Chester, Leon, Amy and I were sleeping only moments before.  I couldn't resist taking a picture before we left.

This is right before my last leg.  Here are my splits:

Leg 7 - 4.5 miles, 7:50 pace

Leg 19 - 5 miles, 7:38 pace

Leg 31 - 3.5 miles, 8:01 pace (tough leg...lots of big hills)

Amy and Leon

WE DID IT!!!

D.C.S. Trailburners, Team #88

Place Overall: 78th (out of 306)

Place Division: 26th (out of 141)

Total Time: 28:45:16

Me and the Ragnar Van

The La Loma participants - me, Leon, Amy, and Zane.

Super fun race!  Will definitely do again. Thank you Leon and Amy for letting me in on all the fun.