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Road Runner Adventure Run sponsored by Ragnar Relay

08/23/2014 by Deborah Brooks

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Have you ever done an Adventure Run at Road Runner Sports? This past year I’ve had the opportunity to volunteer helping out at many runs but realized that I had never actually participated in one myself. When I was invited to this special Adventure Run for Ragnar Washington DC participants, I knew the time had come to check it out for myself.

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This event was a kick off for the Ragnar DC race (September 12th). All registered runners and teams were invited to participate. My team, “Moms Do It All Night Long”, is made up of 12 moms from my MRTT group. It is the first Ragnar race for all of us. 8 of the 12 members of our team were able to attend Thursday night. We are saving our “real” team tees for the race so donned our matching MRTT shirts and headed over to the event.

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There were numerous sponsors on hand to offer samples and test products.

-Cliff Bars (shots, bars and gels)

-Tom Tom (offering test “runs” with their GPS watch

-Bondi Bands

-Krave beef jerkey

-Ragnar

and many more

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Right on schedule we were ushered outside where a large board is revealed to  display the map for tonight’s run. You can also access the map on your phone.

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Usually between 8-10 checkpoints are listed on the map. You are encouraged to run to  as many checkpoint as possible within the hour time frame to collect as many raffle tickets as possible. It is important to strategize so that you are not running around in circles and can hit as many sites as possible.

Off we went! We made it to Core Power Yoga where we demonstrated tree pose and dancer to earn our tickets

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We dropped and gave them 10 push ups at Title Boxing

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We slipped and slided our way to more tickets

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Did the raw egg challenge and racked up some more raffle chances-no breaks!

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this is why I never played sports as a kid

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We hit a few more stops before heading back to the store for the amazing raffles they had planned

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We all won a ton of prizes from shoes, to beef jerky, head lamps, safety gear, edible arrangements, etc. I also won a free month’s membership to Title Boxing-score! I love kickboxing.

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I won all of this great stuff!

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my team mate with her new sweatshirt

We also won one of the team prizes-2 bags full of great gear that we need for the race. Thank you Ragnar & Road Runner. We cleaned up for sure Thursday night.  Not pictured here but Road Runner has free beer after their runs as well.

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Our team captain with the winnings

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This was a great time and a great way to get psyched for our upcoming Ragnar race. Road Runner Sports has Adventure Runs at all of their locations so check your local store for times and dates. They are always a good time and always have tons of prizes. The runs are free but you get more raffle tickets if you pre-register online. Most of the runs are no more than 4 miles but you can run as much or as little as you wish. Our MRTT group always comes out to participate and many of us bring our kids as well. Looking forward to the next one!!

Have you ever done an Adventure Run? Ragnar Relay?

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adventure run, Core Power Yoga, Ragnar Relay, Road Runner sports, Title boxing

Meet Deborah

Hi I'm Deborah! I spend my days successfully raising a husband & 2 teens in the VA/DC area. I am a lover of all things running & fitness. As a life long vegetarian, I've always been passionate about healthy living & exercise. Looking for partners in crime, I started my own chapter of Moms Run This Town (MRTT) which has grown to over 700 members. I've met so many amazing women who inspire me daily to keep moving forward. You can usually find me running with my crew and training for the next crazy adventure they talked me into. I love to keep up to date on new running & fitness trends. I definitely choose my running gear based on color and love to express my fashion sense while exercising.

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  1. Susie @ SuzLyfe says

    08/23/2014 at 7:16 am

    I’ve heard about the advernture run and they look like so much fun! I hope that I get to do one sometime.
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/23/2014 at 10:29 am

      It was such a great time!

  2. Coco says

    08/23/2014 at 9:28 am

    Bummed I couldn’t make it! I love your team name. You really lucked out with those prizes!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/23/2014 at 10:30 am

      I did get some great prizes! We missed you too

  3. Mary Beth Jackson says

    08/23/2014 at 12:01 pm

    Wow! That looks like so much fun! I will have to Google that is see if we have something like that around hear somewhere but I’ve never heard of it! You all racked up on the FREE stuff- how fun!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/23/2014 at 12:40 pm

      We sure did win a ton of stuff! It was really fun and got us in the team spirit for our upcoming race.

  4. Jennifer @ Running on Lentils says

    08/23/2014 at 12:16 pm

    Very cool!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/23/2014 at 12:42 pm

      It was lots of fun!

  5. Sue @ This Mama Runs for Cupcakes says

    08/23/2014 at 4:25 pm

    I have never done an adventure run, but I want to…looks like so much fun! As for Ragnar, I’m so jealous, I wish I was doing this one!! I bought that sweatshirt at Ragnar and it is my favorite thing to wear, it’s sooooo comfy and cozy and makes me feel like a badass when I wear it 😉
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/23/2014 at 6:48 pm

      I wish you were doing it too! I am going to get the sweatshirt too. 🙂 The Adventure runs are lots of fun. Our chapter loves to come out for them

  6. Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home says

    08/24/2014 at 7:52 am

    That looks like fun! And a great way to get pumped up for Ragnar. Have you done a Ragnar before? In theory, it sounds like fun, but I don’t know how I’d do on those middle of the night runs.
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/24/2014 at 8:08 pm

      No I haven’t done one before. I am really excited/nervous about it. The staying up all night will be tough

  7. Angela @ Happy Fit Mama says

    08/24/2014 at 8:37 am

    That sounds like so much fun!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/24/2014 at 8:09 pm

      It was a great tine!

  8. Lauren @ Lauren's Glass Slipper says

    08/24/2014 at 3:39 pm

    What a fun time! I haven’t done a Ragnar race yet, but ever since I worked the Bondi Band booth at Ragnar Trail in Snowmass, CO, it has been on my bucket list!!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/24/2014 at 8:09 pm

      Mine too! I don’t see me doing the trail one-that’s a little too rugged for me!

  9. Chaitali says

    08/25/2014 at 10:16 am

    Ooh… this sounds like so much fun! I had no idea Road Runner stores did adventure runs like this. We have one in Rockville so I’ll have to check out what they offer.
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/25/2014 at 10:22 am

      They do them there too! Check it out it’s so much fun

  10. Megan (The Lyons' Share) says

    08/25/2014 at 11:03 am

    That just looks SO fun!! I totally want to do one of these one day … as well as a Ragnar Relay!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/25/2014 at 6:03 pm

      They are lots of fun hope you get to do one too

  11. Nicole @ Fitful Focus says

    08/25/2014 at 4:56 pm

    Sounds awesome! And look at all that swag! I’ll have to see if they have a relay in NY!
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    • Deborah Brooks says

      08/25/2014 at 6:09 pm

      I believer they do them in all of their locations. Check it out!

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