There's a lot of cats hiding in bags around here lately, but this is
one piece of adventure racing news that I can make public right now:
http://www.UntamedVA.com/PressRelease4-30-2007.pdf.
Endurance sports legend, competitor in every eco-challenge and "force of nature" according to
Outside magazine, Marshall Ulrich is drinking the
Untamed kool-aid and will help us take our events to the next level. He's coming on board as a "Technical Advisor" and we are very excited about it.
Marshall Ulrich will be doing a talk at the pre-race dinner on June 8th before the
Untamed VA race; it's an optional dinner for teams and staff, but a great chance to do some socializing prior to a weekend of lactic acid and long orienteering legs. The dinner will be
at the
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports in Charlottesville -- that's right -- the retail store will be rearranging their floor plan to accomodate our pre-race meal and providing a great environment for the evening. It also makes it convenient to pick up that bit of gear you forgot!
For the race itself, we're looking to embed Marshall with a few teams so he can put his digital video and photography skills to good use and experience the event from the inside-out. If you'd be interested in having Marshall join you for part of the event (note: he
won't help you navigate) let me know and we'll see what we can do. Bare in mind that the next weekend he's off to race the
Gobi March race in central Asia and isn't looking to blow things out too much June 9th weekend.