Ragnar day II
I started legs 33 and 34 at 11:40 am and Saturday was hotter than Friday. I went shirtless and was able to stay sufficienty cool. 33 starts with an easier 1.5 miles getting to the base of the pass. The total ascent for the two legs is more than 3200 ft. I was not feeling good on the 1.5 and was worried but I settled down on the hill and never had tired legs or walked a step. I wasn't fast but I was earnest. I finished in 80 minutes with a 9:39 pace. Yeah! Feeling good and done!
But the guy doing the last leg was worried that he wasn't feeling great at the end of his run earlier that morning. So there was a chance someone would step in for him on 36 and that someone would likely be me. I tried to pretend to be finished getting back in my crocs eating an ice cream sandwich and drinking a monster protein shake in the finishing area. We waited for the exchange and he took a while. He finally came through and apparently he had made a 3 mile wrong turn because of no marking on the trail as he was coming down. So he was toast and I was on my way over "Park City hill" which is the worst way one could ever conceive of finshing a race. You start from the finishing area and take a rocky steep climb up a little hill going a net 490 ft over .8 miles with numerous switchbacks. For me this was in the 2:00 hour so much hotter. The crocs aren't good at doing dozens of very short switch backs and I didn't even try to go hard. I just wanted to finish and we did so. That leg, which claims to be 2.8 miles, was 3.6 miles. Time was 33 minutes or 9:22 pace. I was much more spent after this run and was just done.
And that's it. 34.9 miles in about 4.5 hours with 5800 ft of elevation gain and 1100 ft down - half of that descent coming on the last run. Stayed in touch with Fritz. They had two vans. He arrived at 5 pm and was done by noon. Didn't pay for anything and got a bunch of gear. That sounds like slighlty more fun but nothing could incent me to repeat this error again. #neveragain
Today, Sunday, I am fine. No soreness and I will probably get out for 8-10 up City Creek.
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