I've just got a few minutes to share some of the latest goings on with me . . . I'm on my way to Colorado for a week or so of Wilderness First Responder class and to visit family in the process. I should get a lot of great exercise while I'm out there, too, as
White Ranch is very close to where I'm staying and I might make an
RMOC event while I'm out there (still trying to find a fixed O-course in the Denver area...).
In other news,
Team UntamedAdventure.com is all signed up for the West Virginia
Efix in April. I'm joining forces with some great teammates, so we should have a great time in West Virginia and make it back in time to ~gasp~ race the
Tidewater Traverse. That's right, I may be racing this Hampton Roads "classic" that I started a few years back . . . we'll have to see if the details come together, but it's an exciting idea.
Meanwhile, the
Team HRAdventure usual suspects (Pike, Morgan, and I), have started seriously looking at the
Patagonia Expedition Race in 2008. The timing for this event is great all round (no races to organize in February of 2008!), the location is amazing, and now that I've got the idea in my head it's like an itch that just wont go away . . . the catch, as always, is the financing but we've determined a budget and we'll see what we can do in terms of event sponsors. Either way, I'm really intrigued by this 1000+ Kilometer event in a beautiful part of the world.
Finally, I've been neglecting the
Untamed VA Adventure Race website and will give it some TLC over the next few weeks. We already hooked up the
Bulletin Board (look
familiar anyone?) and have posted some info about the
free Information Sessions we're organizing to promote the race, answer racer questions, and spread the gospel of adventure racing far and wide; maybe I'll see some of you soon?
OK, I've got to go but let me conclude with
this link to a 5 minute ESPN video on an "adventurous" race very different than adventure racing as we know it. I was intrigued until I saw the gauntlet of electrically charged wires the racers have to run through . . .5,000 people! And people say I'm crazy. Anyway, check it out and if your friends ever claim adventure racing is too "out there" you now have ammunition to the contrary.