{"id":452,"date":"2012-06-27T13:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-06-27T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T21:41:15","slug":"sharing-the-important-parts-of-my-ragnar-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/sharing-the-important-parts-of-my-ragnar-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing (the Important Parts of) My Ragnar Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another one posted on the blogs on Runner’s World.com<\/em><\/p>\n

I have run a marathon in Zurich, a 5k around the Roman Coliseum, and a few half-marathons along the Las Vegas Strip (both in the daytime and night). Those were all fantastic runs, but my favorite year-in and year-out is the\u00a0Ragnar Northwest Passage<\/a>. On this adventure, a team of 12 people take turns running between 3 and 8 miles at a time, covering 187 miles nonstop.<\/p>\n

This will by my fifth running, and this year I am runner #6. I have been planning assiduously for my legs, and I\u2019d like to share my plan for my first sortie, a 6.5 miler outside of Bellingham.<\/p>\n

7:30 am<\/strong>\u00a0Our first runner begins in Blaine, Washington, right at the US\/Canada border. I was given this leg the very first year my friends and I ever ran the Ragnar, so you could say I\u2019ve been doing this long longer than anyone I know.<\/p>\n

12:00 (noon)\u00a0<\/strong>According to some very rough estimates based on average paces, altitude changes, ambient temperature, relative humidity, playlist selection, shoe selection, hydration, and the position of Mars in Sagittarius, I expect runner #5 to be about 14 minutes and 19 seconds away from our exchange. I\u2019ll put on my shoes (Nike Free 3.0 with about 150 miles on \u2018em), my cool 70\u2019s-style bandana, my Nike+ GPS watch on one wrist, my iPod Nano in a wrist-band holder on the other, and don a pair of supremely choice sunglasses\u00a0even if it is raining.<\/em><\/p>\n

12:02<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ll head to one of the Honeybuckets.<\/p>\n

12:04\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019ll slather my hands with Purell, and down a 5-Hour Energy Drink.<\/p>\n

12:06<\/strong>\u00a0Another visit to a Honeybucket.<\/p>\n

12:08<\/strong>\u00a0More Purell, and begin stretching.<\/p>\n

12:10<\/strong>\u00a0One more Honeybucket visit.<\/p>\n

12:12<\/strong>\u00a0Purell. More stretching, start the GPS watch and put it on pause so it\u2019s not still searching for a satellite while I\u2019ve already started running.<\/p>\n

12:13\u00a0<\/strong>Cue up the playlist. John Petrucci, Daikaiju, Tool, Jethro Tull.<\/p>\n

12:14:19<\/strong>\u00a0Runner 5 comes at me. I take the baton\/slap-bracelet. Off I go!<\/p>\n

1:12:49<\/strong>\u00a0Slap runner 7 with the bracelet, begin earnest search for beer.<\/p>\n

A perfect 9 minute\/mile average! Way to pace yourself over the elevation gains and frequent busy street-crossings, me!<\/p>\n

Now you maybe be wondering about the specifics during the running itself, but let\u2019s face it:\u00a0running is extremely personal<\/em>\u00a0(and the truth is I\u00a0did\u00a0<\/em>type it up but it spans some 15,000 words, taking more time to write than it literally takes me to run 6.5 miles. This is a blog post, not a book by Cheever).<\/p>\n

But at least I shared the beer part with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another one posted on the blogs on Runner’s World.com I have run a marathon in Zurich, a 5k around the Roman Coliseum, and a few half-marathons along the Las Vegas Strip (both in the daytime and night). Those were all fantastic runs, but my favorite year-in and year-out is the\u00a0Ragnar Northwest Passage. On this adventure, … <\/p>\n

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