Party on the Run!

If you really want to have fun while running sign up for the next Ragnar or Epic Relay race with 11 of your friends (or strangers, like I do)!  They are a blast!!  I will be running my third relay this weekend and I will be doing my fourth in August!  What is a Ragnar or Epic Relay?  Take 12 people and divide into two vans.  First van of 6 runners drop off their first runner at the starting line and the other 5 get back into their van and drive to the next exchange while stopping along the way to cheer on their runner and making sure they are nice and hydrated.  Once they get the exchange, second runner gets out ready to take the nice and sweaty slap bracelet from the first runner and starts running.  Here it continues until all 6 runners have run their first leg of the race.  Then it is Van 2s turn.  You do this three times.  You do all your eating and (if you're lucky) sleeping along the way for two days.  I promise, IT'S SO MUCH FUN!!  Need some training?  Here's an idea from Lazy Bones Running:

Get up early, about 5am, eat breakfast from a gas station, drive around in the car, get out, walk around, get back in the car, get out of the car and then go for a run.  Get in the vehicle immediately after the run DO NOT STRETCH and drive around, go do errands, whatever.  DO NOT SHOWER.  Eat again, sit around, go find a construction site with a rank smelling port-a-potty and no toilet paper, then go for another run.  You should be getting sleepy about now. Find someone who talks non-stop and ask them to talk to you while you try and sit quietly. It is very important that the  non-stop talking occurs for the next 7 hours. DO NOT SLEEP. It should now be nighttime and you should be very tired.  DO NOT SLEEP. Turn on the TV, find PBS and a show about wild animals, turn up the volume on the TV. Kick back on the couch with your spare roll of toilet paper that you carry with you everywhere after the port-a-potty incident, close your eyes and just when you are about to sleep, the wild animals should start to roar, this should continue for 2 hours. If it is effective roaring, you will laugh from delirious tiredness and wonder when you can get up and run again.  At 3 am, get up and go outside, walk around, get in and out of the vehicle for good measure,  drink some luke warm coffee or hot chocolate, take Pepto Bismal for the upset stomach and then go for another run.  By this point you should be tired, smelly, stiff and sore but well trained for losing your Ragnar virginity.   

And this is what you look like when you are all done!

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