Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

A thing called a Ragnar Relay is a 24-hour race that you complete with a group of 12 runners,

or six if you're ultra runners, where you conquer 200-ish miles by running day and

night and then day again from one point to another. Dunting? Yeah. An experience of a lifetime?

Also, yeah. Now, training for a Ragnar Relay event is, well, it's not that different from

training for any other race, like a 10 is, well, it's not that different from training for

any other race like a 10K or a marathon.

It's running after all, but by incorporating some nuanced techniques and some important

forethoughts, you can make sure that you are ready for all aspects of the big day.

Now, basically, during a Ragnar event, each team participant will run three times, or three legs of the race,

with each leg ranging from three to 13 miles.

Each leg will vary in difficulty based on terrain and elevation or even just general hillyness, and in total, each one of the runners averages around 17 miles of running during the entire event.

Although, if you're lucky, the shorter running positions cover 11 miles,

and, well, if you're unlucky, the longer positions are more like 24 miles,

which is nearly a full marathon. On Ragnar's

official website, they break the Ragnar training essentials down into these four categories. Number

one, preparing for the night leg, number two, running on tired legs, number three, targeting your long leg, and number four, testing your

nutrition. Now, having done a Ragnar myself and coached a number of people through their Ragnar

adventures, I agree that those are some very important factors to consider. So, let's break them

down one by one, and then

I'm going to throw in my own bonus tip at the end. Now the first training aspect is getting

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