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The G-Rant : Grant's Rants on Adventure Racing

“Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.” - Alfred North Whitehead

Sea & Sand Wrap-Up

We finally got the splits entered for the Sea & Sand Adventure Race; download the split details in Excel format here.  It's always interesting to compare teams with the splits this way; it can help explain the results a bit more and paint a more complete picture of the event.  For example, you can imagine the rough morning Team #10 had while they portaged their boats for 80 minutes (vs the average time of about 30 minutes to make the trip from CP 1 to CP 2).  Team #10, as I recall, ended up paddling their boats back down the bay to eventually find CP 2.  Anyway, there are lots of interesting nuggets hidden in this kind of data.

First person accounts of our races are always a fun read for me:
Premiere division winner Poloris / Chesapeake Light Craft have posted a write-up on their experience at the race.  It sounds like they had a real adventure driving home through the rain and wind on Sunday, too!

The 2006 Series Premiere division winners, Too Many Kids, have also shared a write-up on the Sea & Sand Adventure Race.  
There are race photos online at the Will Ramos site; some of the most amazing photos I've seen from a race (thanks to a brilliant sunrise and relatively calm seas for us to do the morning ocean paddle as we originally planned).  The Will Ramos posse is putting together an HRAdventure calendar; it should be available in the next week or two (in time for Christmas is the plan!).  I'm certain some Sea & Sand photos will figure prominently.




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