Don't forget that
Richmond ASR (and one of our key personnel for the
Untamed VA adventure race: Eric Cone) is hosting a night training event up in Richmond this Saturday night, Easter Eve. The adults go out for Easter Eve and work up a sweat finding O-Flags; the next morning the kids head out for their Easter Egg Hunts. Perfect, right?!
There is still space available for the night training, but
you must sign up and pay your $20 in advance. As I understand it, there will be a variety of CPs in the park and you'll have lots of flexibility in terms of order of disciplines etc. For example, if you really just want to focus on your land navigation, you could spend most of your time on that aspect. It will have a central transition area where you can stage gear, recharge with food/water, and check in with Eric to make sure we don't rally a search and rescue squad for you. Camping is an option, too, so if you sign up and want to camp be sure to get in touch with Eric to get the details.
I think the aim is for everyone to be off the course around 1 or 2 AM . . . leaving plenty of time to get back home and hide Easter eggs --we all know Easter Egg Hunts are the gateway drug to orienteering flags, so do your duty and corrupt those youth into looking for things hidden in the wilderness!
I'll be up there training with two of my
Team Untamed Adventure.com teammates for the upcoming
Odyssey Efix, and at 4 PM I'll give a talk on "Prepping for 24+ hour adventure races" with an emphasis on the
Untamed VA race. Honestly, we'll see who the audience is for this talk and that will steer my presentation. I have a feeling it will be more of a reunion of old friends than a formal talk, which is great by me, but I do need to get my practice in for
the talks I'm doing up in DC and elsewhere. If nothing else, I can answer questions about the
Untamed Virginia race and
Untamed Adventure more generally and maybe talk about some gear and race strategies (mostly mental!). Once I learn where my talk will be conducted in
Pocahontas State Park, I'll post directions and some more information.