Ragnar Road Northwest Passage, the unforgettable running relay that sells out year after year, is back on. Your journey begins near the Canadian border in the city of Blaine, WA and takes your team of 12 runners past famous sights including the glacial Cascade and Olympic Mountain ranges, Deception Pass …
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Ragnar Road Northwest Passage, the unforgettable running relay that sells out year after year, is back on.
Your journey begins near the Canadian border in the city of Blaine, WA and takes your team of 12 runners past famous sights including the glacial Cascade and Olympic Mountain ranges, Deception Pass and the Puget Sound.
Home of iconic landmarks, friendly locals and breathtaking coastal views, the peaceful Pacific Northwest scenery lives up to its famous reputation. You’ll take turns running for two days and one night along vibrant fireweed blossoms, fruit stands and picturesque farms.
The course will take you where the forest meets the sea, and leave you breathless as you cross the finish line with your whole team in Langley, WA on Whidbey Island where you’ll celebrate an accomplishment you could never do alone. Don’t miss out on this incredible adventure.
Don’t want to do the whole overnight thing? Join us for the Sprint version of this race. If you love a good team challenge, crave time in the great outdoors, and prefer soft sheets to sleeping in a van, this Sprint relay might be exactly your speed — 1 day, 6 runners, 12 legs and 55-ish miles. Same weekend! Same place.
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Bucket list run
Doing a Ragnar (or any relay, really) has been on my bucket list for awhile, so I was really excited to run this! I also didn't totally know what to … MORE
Doing a Ragnar (or any relay, really) has been on my bucket list for awhile, so I was really excited to run this! I also didn’t totally know what to expect. The experience is going to be highly dependent on your team, your teams pace, which van you’re in, which legs you run, and the time of day those legs end up happening. Most of my legs were in neighborhoods or downtowns, and either during the day or at dawn/dusk. For the night/highway runs, Ragnar puts out cones and also has mandatory requirements on safety gear… But it still made me nervous from a safety POV. Some of the legs had you crossing a highway, or running on a very tight shoulder in the same direction as traffic. Since it’s such a long distance, everyone is quite spread out — during my legs I probably cross paths with ~10 people each time, so it’s not the same feeling as running a normal road race. Ragnar offered a tracking system to help your track your runners, and while the “1 mile out” notifications were mostly accurate/helpful, there were still glitches so you couldn’t 100% rely on it. PNW scenery is beautiful, though, and, for being my first relay, I overall thought it was as well organized as one could expect for a race that spans such a large geographic area.
Stunning scenery
I joined a team of people I'd never met. It was the second time I had done that and it is a great way to meet people and yet be … MORE
I joined a team of people I’d never met. It was the second time I had done that and it is a great way to meet people and yet be sort of alone. They don’t really know you, so you can run as fast or as slow as you want. But the NW Passage route was very pretty, through some small towns and along several waterways. I ran again with this same group later in Vegas and in DC, give or take a few members. It is pretty and staying in Seattle after is always fun.