Thoughts on Ragnar

Have you ever heard of the Ragnar race series? It's a relay consisting of 12 team members running approximately 200 miles over the course of 2 days. Runners are divided into two teams and each person has 3 legs of the race to run, all varying distances. I first heard about Ragnar about a year ago, when a friend of ours posted photos from the SoCal event. I had just gotten back into running and it sounded like a fun, exciting challenge.

Fast forward to January of this year. I saw a post in a Facebook group about a team looking for a member for their team. Somebody had to drop out due to injury and they needed to fill slot number 12 for the SoCal Ragnar, happening April 7-8. I jumped at the opportunity and the next day found myself a member of The Repeat Offenders.

I had all these glorious plans of training, including back to back runs, hills and long distances. I had 3+ months to prepare, but here I am less than 2 weeks out from Ragnar having done very little of said training! I know that I could go out tomorrow and run 10 miles, but doing it on very little sleep and tired/sore legs? I'm worried! The distances I have to cover are 4.9, 4.6 and 7.8, for a total of 17.3 miles.

I am mostly worried about getting a migraine because I tend to get them when I overexert myself. I know my legs will hurt. Last week I ran 3 miles in the morning and 3 more that same evening. My legs felt terrible! I had planned to run in the morning again with my girlfriends but cancelled because I was in pain and didn't want to risk an injury. My friend and biggest resource of running knowledge suggested I try compression socks, so I ordered a pair from ProCompression to wear for recovery. I had planned to run at least twice back to back this weekend but I've been suffering from a 3-day migraine that won't seem to quit so I have yet to try my socks.

This week, I am writing mileage goals down for at least 4 days this week in my planner. I have to commit to getting some good training in before I run out of time!

xo, Annie