9.3.2023 📲
"Starting a group text for Ragnar Wisconsin Trail. This started as a full team that fell apart, and we rebuilt it with THIS team...so thank you for throwing your hat in with people you don't know to have an incredible adventure together.
We're running as a team of 7. There are options for racing one runner short, I'll share later, but we're all good.
Trail racing is different, and Nine Mile Forest is a %@#! hairball. The trails are full of rocks and roots and hairpin turns. If you have trail shoes, use them. If you don't, your usual running shoes will do just fine. Just make sure you have some grip left...." 📲
My group text a year and a half ago when I recruited Barbara to get a full-enough team to race the Wisconsin Trail Ragnar Relay.
My race team fell apart, I took over captainship, and I wasn't about to waste perfectly good training and let my 10th Ragnar go to the wind. She wasn't just a worthy recruit; she's the epitome of endurance racing. If you know the Leadville 100, you now understand Barbara. (She wrote a book about running Leadville, we'll ask her about it.)
We had time to chitty chat at our campsite between legs during that race: when I learned she coaches Life Time Inc. executives on mind, body, and spirit, I was pretty much sold for life on Barbara.
She's a soul you want to meet. This episode isn't about high performance on and off a race course from a world-class ultrarunner, it's about you.