Super Proud of My Amazing Wife

So, Yvette got a call from some girls that she has been running with and some friends of theirs needed a runner for a Ragnar Run team that they had put together ( http://www.ragnarrelay.com/ ). This is a 200 mile non-stop run that goes from Ventura to Dana Point. She was running in a team of 12. Her 3 legs would total a little over 13 miles and she would get her first chance at night running, starting one of her 4 mile legs at 12 am through Van Nuys. She traveled with a group of 6 girls in a van for about 24 hours in order to do this and she knew none of them before the race. I was totally stoked for her and at the same time a bit jealous of the fact that I wasn't racing. Mostly though, I was just happy that she has gotten into endurance racing and enjoying the camaraderie that those events offer.

We followed her race on her Facebook posts and set out to pick her up on Saturday morning after her last leg of her run, a 4.9 mile jaunt through Wilmington at 7 m in the morning. She said she got to see more than one homeless sketcher just crawling out of their box to glare at her as she ran.
We picked up one happy and tired girl ( she only slept about 2 hours all night) on Saturday morning and put her blood soaked shoes into the car ( she forgot to cut her toenails so they cut into her feet) and took her to a well deserved lunch at Mimi's Cafe. She excitedly told us the stories of her adventure while we ate and drove home. Once home, she crashed out on the floor next to our 3 year old as both took a much needed nap.
I laced up my shoes and headed out for a run, filled with the excitement of her adventure. I headed out on an old loop that I used to train on that leaves my house and goes straight up for 2 miles before a slight reprieve then more climbing through the Etiwanda Wilderness Trail. I had to do the small loop in order to be home in time for showers before Family Mass at our church.
The details of my run are in the link at the bottom of this post. It ended up being 7.25 miles and I had a stupid high average heart rate, but all in all it was a great run.

A special congratulations goes out to Yvette and her "Big Rig" team. Great job love. I am super proud of you.