Late Night Relay Race in Connecticut

About Ragnar Relay Series

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There is a little noticed race through the town that is occurring right now. It is called the the Ragnar Relay race and it starts in New Haven and ends in Boston and that is hell of a long race. I stumbled upon it when I was out for a late night drive last night and found runners on Old Route 2 with vests, lights and cars for helping the runners. It was, to say the least, a big surprise to find runners out in the dark and rain on a very lonely road at 10:00 pm. At first I thought that these have to be crazy or just real dedicated to running. Then we saw the support cars and I just had to know what they are doing. We asked one of them, who had a bicycle support person with them, what they were doing and he told us that about the race. In this case there are 47 teams that are participating. I was very surprised when he told me that there were 1,000 people behind him doing the same thing.
The way it works is that there are 12 runners who relay all the way to the destination which in this case it's Boston. The web site indicates that there are other Ragnar Races around the country which are similar in length and have the same makeup. Each group of runners have two support vehicles involved which kind of leap frog as they go across the countryside. This particular race is about 194 miles according to their web site and the runners that I saw last night should be entering Boston at some point today. Good luck to them and wish that I was in shape to do the same thing.