The big show,
2006 PrimalQuest, started earlier today and team Nike already has a bit of a lead after just 11 hours of racing. The Primal Quest website is really fantastic, you can waste hours of perfectly good work time following the leaderboard, the teams, the course, and everything in between.
HRAdventure has direct connections to a few of the teams that are racing, here's a quick run-down:
- -Sutliff Hummer is based out of PA but Mark Montague of Suffolk, VA races with them. Sutliff Hummer races in just about all of our races, and they won the 2005 Storm the Eastern Shore. If you've done much training or racing in Hampton Roads, you're bound to have run into Mark!
- -Odyssey AR is based out in western VA and they organize races like the Beast of the East and the E-Fix. The real connection with HRAdventure is through Scott Pleban who is one of the strongest navigators I know -- we've trained with him a few times and he's a very approachable and humble guy.
- -TravelCountry.com / Tango has Blain Reeves on their team; Blain lived in Hampton Roads for a while and we met him after he kicked butt at the first race we organized (back in 2004) -- Blain has sinced moved to south Florida but our paths still cross at races now and then and he contributes to content on our website.
- -GOALS ARA is a race organization up in Philadelphia, but they sponsor a race team and they're doing PQ for their second time in a row. GOALS came out and raced the 2006 SPROUTE and showed that they're a very strong team. We also have a cooperative agreement with GOALS to cross-promote our event calendars (you'll find a GOALS flyer in our race bags for 2006, for example).
Those are the 4 teams that HRAdventure has strong connections with. We wish them, and all the racers, good luck in the heat of Moab!