MYOMED Ragnar Relay Series
Deseret News Slideshow of the Race
Rich is a huge fan of running and he is very religious when it comes to his schedule. He takes his running stuff when we go to Logan to see my family and even when we go on vacation... yeah it bugs!! He runs on his lunch break (because he used to run after work but I got mad when he got home really late and waking up early isn't that easy).
He works at Tahitian Noni and they put together a team that the company sponsored and he has been looking forward to this relay since January. The name of his team is "Powered by Tahitian Noni"
Basically the team is made up of twelve people running from Logan to Park City...181 miles and it takes anywhere from 17 to 33 hours to complete, Rich's team finished in 27 hours.
Rich started the team out in Logan as runner #1 (he had to run 3 legs, his first leg was in Logan at 11am his distance was 5.1 miles, leg 2 was at 8pm and it was 8.2 miles which was very hard and had huge elevation changes, his 3rd was at 5am and was 5.6 miles).
Me, Max, Amberly, Owen and my Mom went down to the park to see Rich take off, we then drove to the exchange point to watch him finish his first leg. It was like 85 degrees when he was running and he said there were two pretty step hills but he still finished in about 30 minutes (yes he runs 6 mile minutes). We didn't get to chat long because he had to take off in the van to support the next runner and meet up at the next exchange.
Each team was responsible to have 3 volunteers and so my sisters Monica, Amberly and I decided to 'take one for the team' (even though we weren't on the team) and do a volunteer shift. We had to report to the park at 5:30pm and help with Start line take down. We were supposed to be there until 11pm but when we got there the people before us had done most the work. We were only there for about an hour plus we got 2 free shirts and some other stuff so we totally scored on that one.
Me the kids Monica, Amberly and Kenzie drove up to Park City to watch his team finish. We got there right as they went through the finish line and took a few pictures and then we went our separate ways. He went home to sleep and you'll see in future posts the rest of our fun filled day.
Here are some pictures Rich got from one of his teammates...
4 comments:
I just don't see how people can do that, I am such a whimp! My brother and sister in-law did that race also!
Good job! Some of our friends did it this year too, and Pual's brother does it also! He love it! We should do it as a bunco group next year! :o)
Raise the Roof for Rich woo woo woo woo! You are Awesome Rich!
That is so inspiring, not that I could ever do that, but way to go Rich.
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