If you check out the
Untamed New England home page, down on the lower left corner is a new section we've called the GMARA Untamed Insight (this section links to the full
Insight area here). It will offer an inside look as Team GMARA prepares for to compete in the race; we're highlighting this team since the GMARA (
Green Mountain AR Association) is a household name for racing up in New England, and we think it will be cool to put a microscope on them as they train and build for race day. Chris, captain of the team, also writes really well, which is something not all adventure racers can do (too much sleep deprivation for most AR types?), so I think it will be particularly entertaining to see where Chris takes it.
Once we finish the Team section for the Untamed New England site, each team will have it's own profile page where they can upload photos and so on (a lot like
Untamed Virginia 2007), but we think emphasizing Team GMARA in this way is smart since we're new to the New England racing neighborhood and this should help attract the locals. We have a running bet amongst the Untamed staff whether the mid-Atlantic (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina) will have more teams in the race than New England will . . . it's way too early to tell but by about January we should start to see how this shakes out. We're just starting to get advertisements into the right places and building some name recognition for the race, and I think the normal time for people to register for their "big" events is right around the new year, so we'll have to be patient.
Based on verbal commitments, however, the mid-Atlantic teams have like 20 spots taken but we'll see who follows through on that.