Pitches and puns.
Our journey as teammates began long before Ragnar Northwest Passage. We met on a soccer pitch in the early 2000s. A few puns later, a friendship was born.
When Carlee pitched Katie an opportunity to join a NW Passage Ragnar Relay team, she jumped at the chance to check off this off her bucket list. The running was hard. Really hard. But the experience was golden. So much so, we decided to organize a team for the following year.
The Golden Girls Relay Team took our friendship and run relay team management to the next level. After taking their team on the road, we decided to start Run Biddies to build camaraderie with more teams.
Wanna be a slogger, not jogger…
Katie traveled to and ran the Marine Corps Marathon in 2006 as her first ever road race. Classic Katie. She thinks big and commits fully.
Today she “slogs” which is a self-appointed pace somewhere between jogging and walking. If she can make it through a 200-mile overnight relay, you can too.
Katie wants everyone to know — the experience is most important. Well, second to the organization. She’s weird like that.
Coming soon: Katie’s favorite relay running things. (Spoiler alert, spreadsheets will be on the list.)
Getting biddies with it…
In her youth, Carlee dreaded the family and friends that ran holiday 5k’s. Carlee? Turkey NOT Trot. Jingle all the NO WAY. She preferred zzz’s over miles.
Eventually, it was friends who encouraged her to move past her running disdain and try things she once thought to be impossible, likely undesirable and probably downright crazy. Like an overnight relay race.
A self-professed lush under peer pressure, she’s picked up her mileage (often running from her children) and found an unexpected love of the relay events.
Coming soon: What’s in Carlee’s run bag? (You’ll find the utmost “joy” from this list. Eat your heart out Marie Kundo.)
Make new friends but keep the g(old)en.
One is Strangers & Things. The other Golden Girls. In our first year managing our very own Golden Girls Ragnar Relay team, we created custom magnets for each team member. They became collectibles on the course bridging fun and friendship between two teams in an effort to “Find Muriel.”