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I don’t have a lot to add to the most excellent and less excellent… :O liveblogs my people have put up about Ragnar. The race itself was a challenge unlike any I’ve done, fairly difficult physically but also requiring a different sort of social navigation than a typical day for me does. Being stuck in a van with some semi-strangers for 36 hours requires not getting angry, or making anyone else angry, despite lack of sleep and free will. I woke to leave Boston at 3:30am on Friday and didn’t have any real sleep until I found myself napping on the grass outside some suburban Chili’s late afternoon post-race (this guy eventually woke me up).

One thing I was particularly happy for was getting to run with a different set of friends, people I hadn’t necessarily run with before but who I hope will stick with it and race with me again. Next year – and I’m pretty sure there will be one – I’d like to run another relay out west, say Ragnar in Las Vegas or the original in Utah. Or Hood to Coast. Hopefully a bit faster than almost DFL, but either way. In the meantime, my sights are shifting back to the BAA.

If you haven’t seen and would like to, here are some other photos from our race. A short video is forthcoming.