Some women in my neighborhood are organizing a team to run the Colorado Ragnar rely. Each runner of a 10-12 person team runs 3-4 legs of between 3-8 miles each over a 24 hour period. It's in the mountains, so some legs will be challenging. The race is in two months. I have been maintaining bare minimum fitness over the last few months, running less than 20 miles a week. My past racing experience includes 4 marathons, numerous halfs and other shorter distances. Is two months enough to prepare? I feel like it would be, although some pain would be involved. I've never done a race like this, though, and don't really know how my body will react. Would I put the team at risk of not finishing if I join? I really want to do this, but not if I'm not going to be able to finish.
UPDATE: Training was going great until about 10 days ago when I got sick. Last Friday, I was diagnosed with pneumonia and put on antibiotics. I am feeling much better, but still have a pretty significant cough. I wake up in the morning feeling okay, but the cough gets worse as the day progresses. I ran 2 very easy miles on my treadmill this morning and it felt okay. I am going to try 3 miles outside tomorrow morning. I have no idea how realistic it is to think I can recover enough to run 7/4/6 in the mountains in less than three weeks from now. My base was not great and I know I've lost fitness. I don't want to let my team down, but I also don't want to hurt myself or wait to long too long them know they should get a sub. We are all racing for fun and not time. Any advice?
UPDATE: Training was going great until about 10 days ago when I got sick. Last Friday, I was diagnosed with pneumonia and put on antibiotics. I am feeling much better, but still have a pretty significant cough. I wake up in the morning feeling okay, but the cough gets worse as the day progresses. I ran 2 very easy miles on my treadmill this morning and it felt okay. I am going to try 3 miles outside tomorrow morning. I have no idea how realistic it is to think I can recover enough to run 7/4/6 in the mountains in less than three weeks from now. My base was not great and I know I've lost fitness. I don't want to let my team down, but I also don't want to hurt myself or wait to long too long them know they should get a sub. We are all racing for fun and not time. Any advice?