Скачать или смотреть Ragnar 2021- Rainier Trail Relay

Full disclosure- I'm not a runner. But I like to run ('cuz it's good fitness), and I do like a good suffer-fest... So when a friend asked if I wanted to be on her Ragnar relay team, I said "YES" not really knowing what I was signing up for!

The relay is a team of 8 people who cycle through 3 loops/ trails until every member has run each loop. The Rainier event takes place at the Crystal Mountain ski resort- which means decent elevation and STEEP trails:
Green "easy" loop: ~3 miles; gains all its elevation at the beginning with a 30+% slope, then mellows out
Yellow "intermediate" loop: Starts out with the same climb as the Green, then keeps climbing for about 5 miles up to the top of the ski resort for a total gain of just shy of 3000 ft
Red "hard" loop: Take the gondola to the top, then run back down over ~8 miles. Harder in the dark :-p

Overall- great team, great event, 12/10 would repeat! Maybe after my legs rest a bit.

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