AM Took Griffin on his loop before heading to Zion for the Ragnar Trail Experiment. 2, no watch PM Ragnar put together a test relay of sorts and invited my company to bring a team and let them know what we think. It was a pretty cool set up at the Ponderosa Ranch outside Zion. Teams of 8 would have a runner start from the main campsite area, run a designated loop, then hand off to the next runner when they finished at the same area. There were 3 separate loops that each runner in our team of eight had to complete. so runner 1 ran loop 1, then runner 2 ran loop 2, runner 3 ran loop 3, runner 4 ran loop 1, etc. until each runner had completed all 3 loops. I would put this up as a race report, but due to rain the event was pretty much cancelled about 6 hours after it started due to rain. The trails were a disaster! 2 people from my team tweaked their knees, I heard someone from another team fractured their leg, I passed a girl about 40:00 minutes into my loop(7.2 miles with about 800 feet of climbing) that was in tears because it was so slippery, wet & cold. It was definitely frustrating being on sweet trails that wold be pretty fast, but were almost unrunable due to the slippery mud. I had to drop to my hands and scramble up a few climbs or else I would have slid backwards. I went down about 3 times from slipping around and was running thru knee deep troughs of water. Not exactly what I'm into, but an experience I won't soon forget. Overall it would be a good time and pretty cool race if the weather would have been better. 7.2 in 1:09:22. 800 feet climbing.
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