Here's a couple shots of our room (not much privacy eh?! Thankfully the toilet is in a separate room!) and the view from our room. Supposed to be a beautiful, sunny, 80 degree day!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Urban Dictionary
Post Race
Cramming in the van, and blue hands from the window paint!
Concluding the race we checked out some of the tents for free merch, then headed to Leona's in Chicago for some delicious pizza. Then we all piled into the van and suburban to head to Amy's. At Amy's we cleared out the suburban, took off the decorations and sent the people going to Madison in van 1. Thanks Team Slizzard, I had a blast!
The Final Stretch
A Few pics from the camera! Libby taking off for her 2nd leg, the team waiting for Gus to arrive, and Amy, Elizabeth and I.
I never got to tell everyone about my 3rd leg due to a problem blogging because we had all sent in too many blog posts! My 3rd leg was definatly challenging. I started in Highland park, IL. After arriving at the exchange a little later than desired, I was a little nervous. Virginia came in about 10 minutes later, and I was off. I was supposed to run down the sidewalk and then cross over. Right at the corner there were about 3 children and their parents with hands out for high-five's, it was pretty cool! Then as I crossed the other street, another mom said to her daughter, "look honey, it's a marathon runner". I continued down the street to run onto the Robert McClory Bike Path. The trail was pretty nice, but a bit confusing with all of the parking lots that intersected the trail, that I was supposed to run through. This leg was a bit harder than the previous 2. I actually thought to myself that running at night may have been easier because I couldn't see where I was at, and just kept going. I wish that this leg was marked a little better, there wasn't a marker for the last mile, so at about the last .3 miles I kicked it into high gear sprinting in to exchange with Clarissa. It was AWESOME, I loved all of the people standing there clapping for me as I came in. The Ragnar person in charge of the exchange had a megaphone, and was saying, "Team Slizzard, coming in strong, look at that great exchange!" Pretty soon after arriving, we were leaving again to meet Clarissa from her 8.2 miles. She maintained a ridiculous pace around 7 minute miles, came into the last exchange of the race passing off to Gus. Then she ran to the nearest bush... Our vehicle then headed to Montrose Beach to the finish line. There the team met up, and we waited for Gus to all run in together, however no one informed Gus, so he kept up his pace, as half of the team struggled to keep up in their flip flops! At the finish line we took some team photos, and checked out a couple tents. We all got our medals/ beer opener, and a window sticker, that you better believe will be going on my car!
I never got to tell everyone about my 3rd leg due to a problem blogging because we had all sent in too many blog posts! My 3rd leg was definatly challenging. I started in Highland park, IL. After arriving at the exchange a little later than desired, I was a little nervous. Virginia came in about 10 minutes later, and I was off. I was supposed to run down the sidewalk and then cross over. Right at the corner there were about 3 children and their parents with hands out for high-five's, it was pretty cool! Then as I crossed the other street, another mom said to her daughter, "look honey, it's a marathon runner". I continued down the street to run onto the Robert McClory Bike Path. The trail was pretty nice, but a bit confusing with all of the parking lots that intersected the trail, that I was supposed to run through. This leg was a bit harder than the previous 2. I actually thought to myself that running at night may have been easier because I couldn't see where I was at, and just kept going. I wish that this leg was marked a little better, there wasn't a marker for the last mile, so at about the last .3 miles I kicked it into high gear sprinting in to exchange with Clarissa. It was AWESOME, I loved all of the people standing there clapping for me as I came in. The Ragnar person in charge of the exchange had a megaphone, and was saying, "Team Slizzard, coming in strong, look at that great exchange!" Pretty soon after arriving, we were leaving again to meet Clarissa from her 8.2 miles. She maintained a ridiculous pace around 7 minute miles, came into the last exchange of the race passing off to Gus. Then she ran to the nearest bush... Our vehicle then headed to Montrose Beach to the finish line. There the team met up, and we waited for Gus to all run in together, however no one informed Gus, so he kept up his pace, as half of the team struggled to keep up in their flip flops! At the finish line we took some team photos, and checked out a couple tents. We all got our medals/ beer opener, and a window sticker, that you better believe will be going on my car! Saturday, June 11, 2011
van #1 legs 1 and 2 complete!
Running next to the shores of the glorious lake michigan elizabeth completed her third leg of the ragnar in a stylish all black runners outfit. She looked so happy styling and profiling that Jesse thought she should just continue and run his leg as well. Instead she gave Jesse mister slappy slappy and off he went to run along the boardwalk of the great lake of michigan and finished his leg at 4:47am as the fog was lifting and dawn was upon team slizzzzzzzzard!
It's almost beer thirty for van numero uno!!!!!!
It's almost beer thirty for van numero uno!!!!!!
Already???
Van 2 is wayyy too fast!!!! :) Its time to be running again...already??! Ahhhhhhhh. Most of our crew got some rest in the van while Ryan and I rolled out our sleeping bags inside a church, right up by the altar. I wasn't successful in catching any zzz's but stretching out on the ground still felt nice. None of us are real excited to be facing another round of legs, but that's irrelevant. Time to dig deep.
31:30 for 3.6!
I just finished my 2nd leg. 3.6 miles in 31:30 in case you didn't do the math, that's under 9 minute miles! I'm so stoked right now! I'm not sure how I managed to run that fast when I could see -1 foot in front of me! It was sooooo dark on the trail I ran. I was thankful that there was a runner in front of me when I went through the first gates to the trail or I would have missed the pedestrian area and ran into the vehicle gate. It was actually nice when you passed someone so there headlamp gave you a little more light, or even when yes, I was passed. But hey, 5 Roadkillz baby!! I was very happy when I saw the last turn meaning .2miles left. I passed off to Clarissa as I screamed her name coming into the exchange! Clarissa just came in with a ridiculous fast pace, Gus is out for his 2nd leg.
Deep dark night
Leg 19, potentially the most scary thing ever, right after sky diving! 3.7 miles along a dark, DARK road! The first 1.5 I was the only runner in sight, next to the deep, dark, woods. All I could think about was who was going to jump out at me. The only light was my headlamp and the vans checking in on runners occasionally. I was ecstatic to meet Zeke at exchange 19. Zeke knocked out a quick 2.5 before handing off to Virginia. She was getting a few last stretches in before heading out in the misty fog.
18 down...18 to go
As I write, the runners of van 2 are making their way south toward chi-town, while van 1 runners are also pointed south, in our big white van. Hoping to get a couple winks of sleep in Racine before we get slapped with the bracelet around 3 am. Key word: hoping!!
Our night legs went well and we added serious points to the Roadkillz tally. Well, everyone except me :( My 3.2 mile leg started at 11:20 pm and I ran alone for most of it...under bridges, down a trail, thru residential streets and down a bustling blvd before finding the exchange point. There maaaay have been a teeny tiny panic attack when I thought for sure I was "that runner" to get lost. But all ended well.
Good luck van #2!
Power of the Bee!
Holly uses her magical bee wand to light her way to the next exchange point... with a slight detour.
Martin Luther High School: Major Exchange
Big thanks to Martin Luther High School for the use of their school for the use of their facility. The team set up camp in the far end of the gym. Van 1 kept up on the fast pace, so after dinner we only had about an hour before we needed to head out again. Unfortunately for me I could not sleep with some person snoring! The upside is that I got the update the team was still ahead, so I was able to wake everyone, but Amy who was already at the exchange! Currently Amy is working on 3.6 mi, and Zeke will sprint his 2.5. 'Burban #1/ vehicle 2 is awake, alert, and ready to roll (or run)!!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Bar hop
Cheers to our homies in van 1. We stopped at Water Street Micro Brewery in Delafield to grab food and a cold one. Just checking into major exchange 18 for a quick snooze.
Exchange 12 - Wales community park
Van 1 and suburban 1 unite! Gus hands off to Libby...now food, sleep, hydrate, and showers until 1am ish
Lei'd
Homeless on the playground...
Okay, maybe they're runners. But when we installed this playground I don't think we could have predicted people sleeping on the shredded rubber.
Leg 10: Finished!
I must say I surprised myself! 5.6 miles in approximately 50 minutes. The course was a flat run on the Glacial trail. The time went by really fast! I passed 3 roadkillz, and 2 fallen trees. I was happy to hear that the water station was not the halfway point, but about 2/3rd done according to the guy at the station. It was awesome hearing the encouragement from other teams the last half mile, I even had a brief conversation with another runner at the 1 mile marker. At the exchange point I handed off the orange bracelet to Clarissa, it was a great exchange seeing how we had planned it all out at exchange 9 while I was waiting for Virginia to come cruising in. I'm looking forward to passing some more people in my 2nd leg! Stay tuned, it'll be in the middle of the night.
Van #1 back in action!!
Elizabeth all geared up for the first run of the night! Headlamps and tail lights...check.
Welcome to HELL-enville Virginia
Virginia was welcomed by a silo falling down in Helenville. She said, "Glad I didn't get lost! Part of the leg was an obstacle course with a tree down."
Team slizzard errr Team Gus
Leg 7 was an amazing run on the Glacial Drumlin Trail. 2 Roadkill...what a good feeling! After I handed off the baton, we cheered for a few runners along the way. One random runner yelled, "thanks, go team...Yeaaahhhh..errr..Gus?"
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