Ragnar TRAILS- South Lake Tahoe- July 26-27

Running, and Trails, and Bears...Oh my!!

This was a super fun new Ragnar experience through the trails of Sierra at Tahoe in South Lake Tahoe. Instead of driving from each exchange to the next, there are three different running trail loops that begin and end at Ragnar Village. We set up camp and pretty much just hang out and chill while our runner is out on their trail.  8 runners, 3 loops, 24 legs. Green loop was about 3 miles, Yellow loop was 6.8 miles. and Red loop was 7.7 miles. Everyone gets a turn on each loop. It took us until about 4 pm the next day to finish after starting at 12:30pm Friday.  We did a couples team with the Tenney's, Nielsen's, and the Thompson's with Becca Brandi as our volunteer/backup runner (little did she know what she was getting herself into!!).  Loved having this crazy fun time with amazing friends and this awesome hunk of mine!!

Aubry and I got to double up on our last loop together because the trails were taking a lot longer than the race planners expected and so they were getting teams to double up on their runners in order to finish by a certain time. I had a blast running/hiking with one of my most favorite friends!! We pretty much climbed a mountain together!! It was crazy hard!!

 

 Becca ran my Red loop for me in the middle of the night. I had been struggling with IT band issues since my last race/half-marathon and just couldn't put on the miles. Collin and Mandi both ended up getting injured on their runs too so Becca ran a loop for each of them! Becca is a Rockstar!! She ended up getting to run all three loops!

 DONE!!! We ended up getting 2nd place in our division!! Way to go hotties!!!