Tuesday, October 26, 2010

White Tigers...Vegas Ragnar 2010

We had all of our faces photo-shopped into old pictures of Siegfried and Roy and printed into posters all over our car!
White Tiger Girls...Van 1
After 24 hours of running....we are done!....we are at the check point for the guys to take over and finish their last legs.
At the finish line....195 miles.....we are still alive!
This was at the Lowe's resort in Henderson. It was at the second major exchange where we would meet up with the guys again, and we would start running. We were able to lay on pool chairs and sleep for the few hours they were running!


This past weekend I ran another Ragnar Race...this time it was from the Valley of Fire National Park to Las Vegas. I was asked to run it a month ago with some people from our ward. They wanted Ben to run, but it was too hard for him to get off work. Van 1 was all girls, and Van 2 was all the guys....so it was a party in each van!

One of the girls parents lived in St. George, so we all crashed on their floor the first night, then drove an hour in the morning to the starting line. We ran, ate, slept, then repeated it 2 more times....through the night! When we finished, we went to the hotel to shower....b/c we hadn't in a few days of running! (we stunk!!) We stayed at the Vinetian, and their rooms were HUGE! (b/c we were an out of state team, the race gave us 2 free rooms....so we split it boys and girls again...it all worked out....even the couples that were there slept in separate rooms) We went to dinner, and our original intention was to go shopping....but we soon realized we couldn't move, and we were so tired!!!

We drove home Sunday morning. It was a nice welcome home....the girls, and Ben were excited to see me! Thanks to Courtney and Lexi who watched the girls for us on Friday while Ben went to work! It was really nice knowing that the girls were well taken care of...I didn't have to worry at all!

2 comments:

sararz said...

wow you're crazy for doing twice this year! wow. At least Gabby wasnt sick and up the entire night before so hopefully you got more sleep than last time.

Crystal said...

Yay Meredith! You are crazy by the way:) But that's awesome! Can I borrow some of your motivation for a few months!?!? haha;0)