The Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay consisted of two vehicles full of 6 runners each. We started in Logan, UT the morning of the first day and ended the next day in the evening in Park City, UT.
I was a graft into the group - someone had injured themselves and I was a replacement. With only two weeks to train, I ended up with one of the worst legs of the race. I had to run a little over 7 miles uphill through a canyon. This sounds bad enough, but it was the heat of the summer, and I had to run up a gravel road, with hundreds of support vans going by, kicking up the dust in my face.
The reward was the beautiful meadow at the top, where I got to get back in the car and watch our friend Jen go down a grueling downhill leg.
My next leg was 4 miles in the dark of the night where my only friend was my headlamp and my iPod. I couldn't see a runner in front of me or behind me.
Third leg was a quick 3 miles in Heber, UT where I ran my fastest ever. I ran an 8 minute mile for all three miles!
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