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More than 13,000 runners completed the eighth-annual Ragnar Relay Wasatch Back on Saturday after running nearly 200 miles overnight from Logan to Park City.

While hundreds of teams of 12 participated in the race, two teams stood out from the crowd — one due to its attire and the other because of its heart.

Dressed in black from head to toe, members of the "Plundering Pavement Pounders" were dedicated to their team's identity. Sporting black shorts, bandannas and eye patches, some members of the Pounders took their team spirit one step further than the pirate emblem on their shirts. Shelly and Jonathan Taylor, Justin and Kelly Vigh and Jason Belcher all got tattoos of the Ragnar Relay emblem before the race.

Joseph Taylor captained the rowdy bunch as they celebrated and ate pizza after crossing the finish line. The Pounders started the race at 5:30 a.m. Friday and crossed the finish line at 12:21 p.m. Saturday. Taylor brought the team together because he said he wanted a group that had experience — some have run races in Napa Valley, Calif., Las Vegas and the Florida Keys.

"I opened it up to a bunch of friends that I had and people I knew, and we have all kinds of experience levels," Taylor said. "It was late at night and I was tired, and I came up with the name. We suggested T-shirts, and we came up with the bandanna idea and went with it."

While Taylor's team ran for the fun and experience, Sylvia Tello's team entered the race for a more serious reason.

The Breasties and Testies were one of 15 teams sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Each team member ran for a family member or friend who is either battling cancer or died from the disease. Wearing blue tops with the word "DetermiNation" on them, Breasties and Testies raised more than $5,000 for cancer research.

Tello pinned a picture of her 21-year old friend Ashley Nicole Jones — a three-time cancer survivor — on the front of her shirt. On the back was a picture of Tello's father, who will undergo treatment for prostate cancer in the coming weeks.

"We're just family," said Tello of her relay teammates. "We spend 30-plus hours in a van and we don't sleep or eat, we just run. And when you run for a cause like this, it just means that much more to us."

The team's finishing time was of little importance to it because its focus was on a more important mission.

"The time you run is really irrelevant, it's just about competing and actually finishing the race," said team member Rob Critchley. "It doesn't matter if you do it in 24 or 34 hours — it's just all about the team spirit." —

Wasatch Back team tidbits

R Breasties and Testies was among 15 teams sponsored by the American Cancer Society and raised more than $5,000 for research.

• The Plundering Pavement Pounders ran with 12 1/2 participants — team member Shelly Taylor is six months pregnant.

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