On November 5-6, 2011, a team of a dozen runners from Columbia participated in the Ragnar Relay from Chattanooga to Nashville. This was the second year for virtually the same group. Last year’s team was Stephanie Robinette, Patrick Carter, Kelly Powell, Norma Powell, Tomi Smith, Rick Harris, Nathan Miller, Ashley Miller, Julie (Williams) Briggs, Becky (Hewgley) Ramer, Shane Wilson and Jason Ward. This year Jenny Adcox was sub’d in for someone.
They finished in 30 hours 26 minutes placing 77th out of 105 mixed open teams. Last year’s result was 29:45. Full Results
Patrick Carter was asked to give some highlights. Here is his email response:
Our official team name was “Night Train” however Van #2, also known as the “fun van” became unofficially known as “Occupy Ragnar”-we were protesting the elite 1% of runners. We caused quite a stir in Nashville with some of the real Occupiers. I got shafted again and ran up Monteagle. I spanked it according to Kelly Powell. Costumes were the brainchild of Tomi. We each tried on different wigs and had fun with it. Stephanie was selected to be Vanna White during the safety meeting because when a volunteer was requested we literally pushed her into service. She did a fine job and should be commended on her ability to hold a sign without getting too shaky. Special thanks to Ashley’s mother who fed us delicious lasagna in the middle of the night and let us crash at her house for a while. We watched and laughed at many you tube videos including but not limited to the honey badger. Kelly didn’t change as much this year and did NOT get one honk in response to what we wrote on his door “Honk if you think I’m sexy”. Rick had many admirers in response to what was written on his door “I like men, little men”. Anyway we had a blast, ran fast and are now contemplating Key West Ragnar 2013.
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