With our Canada race kaput, those of racing as HRAdventure / Axis Gear (aka HAG) rearranged schedules and are all set to go the weekend of July 22 for
the Odyssey race out in Roanoke, VA.
I see lots of familiar names on the list of registered competitors (go to the web page for the race and click on the "Registered Competitors" link); of the other 27 teams (including solos) registered, I'm at least acquainted with 7 or 8 of them from a previous HRAdventure race or clinic -- some of them I know fairly well and Scott Mabry's Silly Geese team were the ones nice enough to give me an ice cold Sierra Nevada during the mandatory dark zone of the 2005 Storm the Eastern Shore. I can still taste it now. Gotta love a team that makes space for beer in their gear bin . . . especially when they're limited to 2 bins per team for that dark zone. It's all about your priorities!
So, while we're disappointed to not be heading up to Quebec for the Raid The North this weekend, we'll be excited to get a race going the following weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains! It'll be very fun racing amongst so many people we know.
I think we should put a friendly wager together . . . involving beer and/or ice cream . . . it doesn't even need to be a "winning vs losing" thing . . . maybe we'll do it so that the team with the cleanest gear at the end of the race has to buy the beer? The team with the fewest ticks?