Ragnar 2010
This weekend I ran on Google’s team for the Ragnar Relay Race! The Ragnar Relay is this 12 person, 188 mile relay where each person runs three 3-8 mile legs of varying difficulty. The teams split up in 2 vans for runners 1-6 and 7-12 and your van follows you and cheers you on when you’re running. When no one in your van is running, you eat and try to get some sleep 
Google had two teams, Google FeetBurner and Google Street View, and I was runner 4 for Street View (easiest legs yahoo!). It was actually really really fun! I have to admit, at 4am on Friday morning when I was getting up to last-minute pack before driving to Google, I was having some second thoughts on this… but it turned out to be a blast. The weather was great and the people were great and it was fun to travel and support our team!
It was also surprisingly not too difficult to run 3 legs. Granted, I was running the 3 easiest legs, but they definitely felt like 3 distinct, independent races than like a drawn-out half marathon. It’s surprising how rested one feels fueled by the combination of a couple hours of sleep, clif bars, and adrenaline. The third leg was the only leg where I actually felt some pain, but overall very doable! ALSO, allegedly I ran ~8:30 min miles on the 2nd leg and ~8 min miles on the 3rd leg. The more I think about it, the more I am skeptical that this actually happened… I ran cross country in high school and I could barely go sub-10 on one 5k. I think in a few days, I am actually going to time myself going a fast 3 miles and see how I do. Not that I’m not going to tell people that I can run 8-8.5 min miles for long distances, but I want to see how much of a lie it is when I do tell people that! 
(But if I really can go that fast, I AM THE FASTEST PERSON IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.)
