I had a nice evening in Richmond last night, talking to a few teams about the
Untamed Virginia race at
Blue Ridge. There's never enough time to just hang out and talk; we're always too busy rushing through a transition area or something equally pressing so it was nice to have some conversations with some of the regulars I've seen at a lot of our other events. Very nice.
In other news, the stage is set for this weekend in West Virginia at the 48-hour Endorphin Fix adventure race. You can
track us online via the race website, as UntamedAdventure.com, and post "
shout outs" to the site that the race may even relay to us on the course during the event -- very cool. We're taking bets on how often somebody posts "Remember Untamed Adventure: Pain isn't Suffering!" to the race site. We'll see. We've got similar technology wired up for
the Untamed Virginia race, but we also have some innovations in online tracking for our race that will make for a lot of fun in June!
Two of my teammates for this weekend, Sherry and Joel, have raced in
every race I've ever directed. Amazing to think about. This will be our first race competing together, and their first race more than 18 hours in duration . . . but they're wicked tough so I know they're going to do great. Our fourth teammate is Russell from Philadelphia, PA and we raced this past January out at Natural Bridge, VA together. He's strong as an ox and I'm secretly planning to make him carry all our race gear and, possibly, myself if the going gets really tough. We're going out to have a good time, race the full course, and see some beautiful terrain in the process; we don't have visions of grandeur to win the event, but we'd really like to finish the full pro course. We'll see . . . and
you can see too by tracking the race online. Wish us luck!
One final thing, I'll be bringing my digital camera along for this race and trying to capture as much of the event as I can from the perspective of a competitor. I'll be doing a presentation on May 1 up at the Richmond Blue Ridge about adventure racing (geared towards a more casual audience than the talks I've done in April). I figure what better way than with a photo diary of the Efix to introduce people to what adventure racing is all about!