I don't know where to start with this post.  This would have been my fourth Ragnar Del Sol.  For those of you unfamiliar, it is a 202 mile relay through Arizona with 12 people on your team.  This year, we decided to just hook up with another van of 6 people that we didn't know, so that we would only have to worry about coordinating things for our van.  Great decision!

As some of you know from prior blogs and tweets, I got injured in early December, 10 days before running Tucson Marathon.  I co...
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For those of you that don't know what this race is all about, here is a quick synopsis.

This is a 204 mile relay race from Prescott to Tempe, AZ.  Regular teams consist of 12 members, while ultra teams consist of 6 members.  A regular team splits their team up by putting 6 people in van #1 and 6 people in van #2.  Each runner is assigned a position (1-12) and you must stay in that order.  Runner #1 starts the race and completes their leg, handing off to runner #2 and so on, until runner #6 han...
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Ok, to clarify, I took this race off and didn't run.  However, I rode most of the course on my bike supporting Amanda Miller.  This is one of my favorite half-marathons, but I forced myself to not enter this one, since it's only been 4 weeks since the P.F. Chang's Marathon.

The plan was that I was going to ride my beach cruiser bike along the course to watch Amanda throughout the race.  Of course, there was a bit of a wrench thrown in that.  I got everything ready last night, pumped up the bik...
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