Ragnar: Second Leg Midnight Run
Picture this. Your second leg of three. 5 miles at 1 am somewhere in the great state of Wisconsin. The temp has dropped to low 70s, cool to the skin, wearing LED head lamps, tail lights, reflective vest and music pumping into your ears... when you leave the transition into the night following the red light in the distance. Then what comes on your tunes... but Michael Jackson's Thriller. As you listen in the night you change the lyrics...
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Relays run in search of time
To traverse two great states of mine
And whosoever shall be passed
by the blasting of soles gassed
Must stand and face their teams quell
And sweat inside a singlet’s shell
The sweaty stench is in the air
The funk of a two hundred six mile dare
Two thousand people stride into town
Closing in to the finish down
And though you sprint to the end
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The addiction that is Great River