I figured out emoji's!

Anyway,😉 I haven't talked a lot about it, but I am signed up to do the Northwest Passage Ragnar.  That is happening in exactly 2 weeks from today.  I've been pretty anxious because the team I'm on seems to be pretty loose and not good planners.  I know one person on the team, a coworker who asked me last year if I wanted to join her husband's team.  It's her first time as well, but I think that because her husband has done it several times, she's not so worried about it.  I didn't even get my runner number until a few weeks ago and that was super frustrating for me.  If you look at the legs . . . Do you all know what a Ragnar is??  Let me back up . . .

A Ragnar is a "relay race" of 200 miles that goes for 2 days or so.  You run with a team of 12 people and switch off running.  Each runner runs 3 legs of varying lengths.  On the page I linked above you can see the course and how Ragnar labels the legs from Easy to Very Hard.  So not knowing my runner number was giving me anxiety because I didn't know the difficulty level of what I needed to train for.  I finally got my runner number (Runner 3), which has a total mileage of 18 miles.  My longest leg is the first one at 8.3 with a difficulty level of Very Hard. 😲 I was looking at it yesterday trying to figure out what "very hard" meant and mapped it on Mapmyrun to see the elevation.

I was freaking out about the fact that this is 8 miles almost completely uphill but a good friend pointed out that it's a gradual uphill, especially at the beginning.  My friend kept telling me that I won't even notice it, but I think that I will.  Afterall, it's uphill, even if it's gradual. . .

My second leg is 6.6 miles and is labeled as "hard" but I've run all the roads that this leg is on, and I don't see how it's "hard."  I have wondered if it's labeled hard because the road has no shoulder and I think it's at night.  But the elevation isn't bad at all.

My last leg is labeled as "easy" and is only 3.1 miles.  I almost didn't include it in this blog, but thought some people might be interested.  I haven't even bothered to look at the elevation.  I suppose they could consider it easy simply because it's 3 miles but it's all uphill . . . I don't know. 

Also, I'm still debating the marathon in October.  This year I have not felt the desire to run any races.  I don't think I've done one.  And I'm not sure I want to run a marathon.  Once upon a time I wanted to get a sub-4 hour marathon time, but . . . I don't know if I care anymore.  However, I think that I should at least start training just in case I decide to do it.  Since I had this mindset today, I decided to figure out how many weeks until the marathon in October, and this week is 18 weeks, which is when training is supposed to start.  So I guess I need to figure out my training plan today.

Anyway, that's it for today.  😁