Summary

Doing an ultra Ragnar Sprint, a whole new dimension into the relay style running. A. Three-person team changes the dynamics of how you plan a relay. Ragnar sprints are perfect for beginners and ultra sprints good for the seasoned runners.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Pros
  • Good for beginners and seasod runners
  • Everybody likes to win once in a while!
  • No van needed if you do a team of three! And
Cons
  • Expensive
  • You run rain or shine?

Ragnar Reach the Beach Ultra Sprint Review

Are you having trouble putting together a 12-person team to run a Ragnar? Don't want to sleep in a van?  The ultra sprint maybe the run for you. You don't even need a van if you have an ultra team of three! 

Ultra sprint planning.

One of the major considerations with a Ragnar race is the price.  Finding 12 people to run with you as a challenge.  We chose to run it with a three-person team and do the sprint.  Sleeping in a van, No renting a van. Just no van!

We used our Jeep and had plenty of room as it were just three of us and our gear.

A planning consideration is do you want to run four legs each or two doubles.  We chose to run two doubles and is what we recommend.  We moved to the station where we did not exchange and we're ready to refill the runner's water by swapping out water bottles.  This way we had approximately 10 miles to run total and where our own water stations.

Everybody likes winning!

Oh did I mention the silliness of magnets? Ragnar runners put magnets on each other's cars!

Have two fast friends?  That's another reason to do the ultra sprint.  There are so many categories in the ultra sprint, It's nice to see your name or in our case, our team's name listed as a winner.  It wasn't our goal, and even though we're yet to receive a prize, we don't even care.  We can go back next year and say that we were last year's champions!

Overall we ran more miles than a regular Ragnar relay, as we each did four legs in total instead of three.   It was a great challenge and we look forward to going back to doing a full Ultra

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