And now I am the 12th and final member of a Ragnar Relay team running the Wasatch Back Ragnar on June 17-18th! It is a crazy day and night 188 mile relay race from Logan to Park City with each member of the team doing 3 legs of the relay.
I am still me. I am still me. I am still me.
If I keep saying that over and over again I can get through this training.
I have never attempted anything like this before in my life. I have been a successful couch potato for many, many years. This feels like a whole new way of living... One sore legs day to the next!
Bill's niece, Liz, started building this team months ago when she registered for the now sold out event. She recruited Bill for her team and he told her I was in training for the half marathons and that I'd probably be willing to be the final team member that she was trying to find. She has us all scheduled to go to a running clinic down at the BYU track and field building in a couple of weeks to have our gait analyzed and who knows what else.
In the meantime, I have discovered a new training tool! It is called Map My Run. It is a free website (there are paid prescriptions, but the free version works great) that allows you to map out your running routes and it will calculate the distances for you. It will also calculate your rate/speed if you tell it how long it took you to run your route. You can also search for other routes that other people have made in your area. For instance, the rec. center has built two 7 mi. routes that start and end right at the rec. center a block from my house.
This is exactly what I was looking for! I have been jogging my longer mileage workouts on the track, because I wanted to make sure I got the full distance in, but the track is FLAT. I need to train on ups and downs. Now I have found out that my two standard runs outside are 3.9 miles and 5.25 miles. I have created an 8.5 mile, a 10 mile, and a 13.1 mile route that I can follow easily! Woot, woot!
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