As cool as they are, I won't be wearing these glasses during Ragnar |
My first leg is 4.1 miles on a dirt road through the Green Ridge Forest. Given our 10:30 am start, I should take the baton at about 2:30 pm. Easy, peasy. Except for the 1.2 mile stretch where I climb 520 vertical feet.
I grab the baton again for a 7.3 mile jaunt near Fort Ritchie. At my current fitness level (fit! not strong!), I can do 7.3 miles in my sleep. The problem is that I may well be trying to do so, as I expect this leg to start at about 1:30 am.
Finally, I complete my portion of the race with an easy 3.7 miles on the Rock Creek Trail near the mean streets of Kensington. I'm hoping the hallucinations resulting from 24 straight waking hours, copious amounts of Gatorade, and fistfuls of trail mix will yield some deep life insights. Or at least a cool idea for a tattoo.
Our team name, Las Vacas Bravas, allegedly means 'The Mad Cows'. The team captain is Hispanic, so I trust his translation, though he grew up in Fairfax and doesn't, to my knowledge, speak Spanish. I don't have the foggiest idea where the name came from, though I do anticipate making a lot of jokes involving the words 'moo', 'bovine', and 'steak'. Please feel free to submit your ideas - we've got 30 hours of downtime to fill.
Follow me on Twitter, as I'll be trying to entertain myself while not pounding the pavement. And I expect you all to join me next year as we field Team G:TB in Ragnar DC 2013.
42 comments:
Good luck Rob!
Kick some ass Rob.
is it a bad thing to call your 10 year-old an asshole?
To her face, yes. Otherwise, its fine so long as its true.
When you're done with the run you should watch channel 69.
Happy running, Rob!
Good luck and make sure you have new batteries in the flashlights. Paci has done the Reach the Beach (NH) relay probably 4-5 times. Every year he would ask me a month before if I was interested. Never could make it happen but I'd love to do a long relay at some point.
Good luck, little buddy. Coincidentally, Marls and I are undertaking a similar relay in NYC. Springsteen at the Meadowlands tonight, the Mets at Citi Field tomorrow afternoon, and partying with the yacht rockers out in the Hamptons for the next two nights. Wish us luck.
godspeed, marls and clarence
good luck! i assume this is some weird community service sentencing for some crime you committed . . . because no one whould choose to do this of their own volition, right? in their "leisure" time? did you vandalize a state park, or what?
Feels like a good time to use the word shirtless. It will result in a lot of google hits. shirtless. shirtless. shirtless.
shirtless midgets is a sure-fire traffic enhancer
Rob Ryan Rex Ryan Buddy Ryan shirtless.
Let's see if we get anything out of that.
go git 'em, tiny
Ann Romney bikini
Hello googlers.
Clarence & Marls--I want a report on the Springsteen concert!
Have fun rob...you know if you drink lots of water you CAN have a couple of brew dawgs...come on be fratty.
drinking one now, danimal
Rob, you should drink lots of beer now because your third leg is very short.
I hear it's tiny
catching some zzzzmans at clear spring high school
Ah, the joys of nj transit.
100,000 SprIngsteen fans can't be wrong. But they can smell like week-old pizza, day-old urine, and colon critters, and that, my friends, is very wrong.
I'm not sure what a Colon critter is, but it smells bad.
I used to date a guy whose name was colon critter.
Talk to Richard Gere.
McNabb is an analyst on the NFL Network? He does a good technical job but he says "you know" at least once per sentence and he dresses terribly.
Taking a crap in a porta john in the middle of nowhere - thought you'd wanna know.
Needless to say, having a better time in the meadowlands than Rob is having in the mud.
Does Mayhugh live in Fairfax? A Skins fan named Mark M. From Fairfax had a question in the Sports Guy's mailbag.
3 hours of sleep under the stars. must find caffeine.
second porta john shit in two days. brave new world for me.
and a fine happy birthday to clarence
Rob - be careful what berries you eat. We saw how that turned out for Alexander McCandless.
Don't eat the yellow snow. We know how that turned our for Frank Zappa.
Springsteen in New Jersey = Fantastic. Hanging out with Johnny G in manhattan until 3:30 = really great time. How I feel this morning = suboptimal.
Happy Birthday, Clarence!
Dan- Should I be thinking about betting on the Irish tonight?
all done, bitches. last 3.7 miles at an 8:09 pace. free beer now.
Mark - I can't advise that with nd giving 6. Nd's D pretty impressive thus far but Denard has carved them up like no one else.
Nice job Rob.
I like vatech today
New post up.
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