Amanda starts her adventure this morning for the Ragnar So Cal. Below is her Twitter stream so you can stay up to date on her progress. (Here’s her tweets she posted..)
21 Apr Amanda @moomcb
Getting ready to start second legs for van two for team Hot Tamales! #RagnarSoCal
20 Apr Amanda @moomcb
#Ragnarsocal 1st leg done!!! Hills are hard!!! Go team Hot Tamales!!!
20 Apr Amanda @moomcb
#Ragnarsocal waiting at exchange 7!! You can do it Jenn!!
20 Apr Amanda @moomcb
Up and going #huntingtonbeach for the #Ragnarsocal. Van 1 do work!! See you in Corona!!
18 Apr Wes @WesMcB
Got @moomcb’s playlist ready for the @ragnarrelay #ragnarsocal GO HOT TAMALES! | http://wesmcb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/AmandaRagnarSoCal2012RunningPlaylist.pdf
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19 Apr Amanda @moomcb
The road to trip to #ragnarsocal begins!! 10 hour drive to make me more nervous.
18 Apr Amanda @moomcb
#ragnarsocal this is my first ever Ragnar! So nervous but so excited!! Training at 7000 feet should help me out!!
18 Apr Amanda @moomcb
Following @RagnarRelay for the #ragnarsocal. The Hot Tamales are coming from the Valley of the Sun!! Phoenix to L.A. baby!!
The Ragnar Relay for me was a huge accomplishment. I am NOT a runner and never in a million years would have thought I could have ran nearly 16 miles in 36 hours. But it is over and now a week and a half later and I am trying to find the next one I could do 🙂
The adventure started late last year when I was visiting with Darcy Whiting (Wes’ aunt) about running and how I needed to do something to get my body back into shape. She was great and encouraged me to start running, I laughed at her!!! After thinking about it for a while I decided she was right and I needed to start. I committed to run the Ragnar SoCal with her and the rest of the team.
When I started training I could not even run for 5 minutes straight!! Gradually, and with determination to complete this race, I increased my running time. My longest run while training was nearly 9 miles. I thought I was going to die and after I finished I had to have Wes come pick me up because I couldn’t walk the rest of the way to my house! My friend Emily Shupe joined me in this adventure and pushed me on the days I didn’t want to get out and go running in the 100 mile/hour wind we have up here in the White Mountains!
The six people in our van met in Queen Creek and we headed out to Huntington beach. We arrived at the hotel at 1 am and tried to get some sleep, ya right!! I was too nervous to get more than a couple of hours sleep that night. We got up and headed to our first major exchange with van #1 in Anaheim. Jenn took off and did amazing on that leg even though she was struggling with a nasty cold and could hardly breath from being so congested. Up next was ME!!! Runner #8! The van made its way inland to Carona where I began my first run. Mile wise it wasn’t too bad, 3.9, but as I studied the website before heading to Cali I knew I was to gain over 700ft in elevation in that short amount of distance.