I think Ragnar is spanish for "The Best Race Ever!"

I spent the last few days driving a 14 passenger van for a Ragnar relay team.  I failed to do a lot of research ahead of time, so a lot of what I experienced was a surprise.

Here is a quick summary of events:

Our van was decorated to match the team theme (Shanghaied)

When we started there were 495 teams ahead of us

Our team had somewhere near 175 road kills

After 29 hours and 19 minutes of running we won the race (for our division)