Ragnar Trail Zion part deux

Last April I had seven of my friends join me on what should have been an incredible race weekend in southern Utah. Unfortunately, mother nature decided we needed torrential rain and the course became a dangerous mud pit. For some reason they didn't want to fly in from around the country for another potential expensive 5k. :)

One of my friends from last year, Andrea Yazzie, wanted to complete the race as badly as me so she joined. One of my friends and race buddies in Mississippi, Rachel Jolley, moved to Logan with her family last year so she wanted to run it as well. A friend from my workout class, Robin, is an avid trail runner and it didn't take much to convince her to join our team. She brought her sister in law Jackie and their friend Emily along for the fun ride. A while back I reconnected with my childhood friend Nikki Bailey and talked her into joining the team. Her friend Becca was our 8th. These ladies were SO much fun.

Here are some pictures of us before the race.

Here are some race day pictures. We met a really nice corporate team of guys that took our begin race pictures and we cheered each other on. One of their runners got dehydrated, no surprising, so we snapped a picture supporting him. 

Mike and the kids came along and had a lot of fun.They swam, a lot, and also went zip lining. I tried to hang out with my team and family and it made for a very memorable race event.

Our team ended up taking 2nd place for the women's teams, which means we're going to do it again next year. I'm already getting excited.