Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Lactic Turkey Adventure Race!
I finished my first adventure race on Saturday with the help of three experienced team mates. It was a six hour race with lots of optional objectives for points: the team with the most points that finishes within six hours wins. We mountain biked up and down steep hills, through narrow tracks, hiked through wilderness trails, inner-tubed down a small creek and crawled through a drain pipe (my least favourite part). I had a blast but next day discovered sixty sand fly bites up and down my legs and clustered painfully around my ankles. Before I race again I must discover the ultimate sand fly repellent as they've always had a taste for my flesh. I'd post a picture of the many nickel-sized red welts on my legs but it's too disgusting.
Here's what's fun about adventure racing:
(1) navigating through overgrown trails and whispering to keep other teams from following you
(2) my first egg and spoon event since seventh grade
(3) jumping over creeks and getting your shoe stuck in the mud
(4) running around with an inner tube strapped to your backpack
(5) relying on other people to read the map
I finished my first adventure race on Saturday with the help of three experienced team mates. It was a six hour race with lots of optional objectives for points: the team with the most points that finishes within six hours wins. We mountain biked up and down steep hills, through narrow tracks, hiked through wilderness trails, inner-tubed down a small creek and crawled through a drain pipe (my least favourite part). I had a blast but next day discovered sixty sand fly bites up and down my legs and clustered painfully around my ankles. Before I race again I must discover the ultimate sand fly repellent as they've always had a taste for my flesh. I'd post a picture of the many nickel-sized red welts on my legs but it's too disgusting.
Here's what's fun about adventure racing:
(1) navigating through overgrown trails and whispering to keep other teams from following you
(2) my first egg and spoon event since seventh grade
(3) jumping over creeks and getting your shoe stuck in the mud
(4) running around with an inner tube strapped to your backpack
(5) relying on other people to read the map
# posted by Margaret @ 11:52 PM 
