Sunday, September 16, 2007

OUR FIRST
ADVENTURE RACE...

Ron and I thought it would be a great idea to do an adventure race with each other to celebrate our anniversary. I think it might have been my idea (what was I thinking?).


Here I am pre-race in the transition area. If I look a little nervous it's because I was!
Here's Ron - calm, cool, and collected as usual.
Here we are post-race holding up the clock: 1 hour 42 minutes 40 seconds.

Here's what we did in that time:

Run Bike Paddle Adventure Race #3

Ran 2.88 miles trail run, 3.5 mile bike-ride (trails), 2.88 mile bike/run (one of us running, one of us biking), 1.75 mile bike ride (trails), 1 mile paddle (in Lake Livingston). Oh yeah, did I mention we had to climb a 40 ft observation tower to retrieve our finishing medals? That was hard!

Not bad! Official postings are due next week. But, we think we did pretty well. Looks like we came in 6th place out of about 12 co-ed teams. There were about 30 teams total; male, female and co-ed.

Click here to see the official results - we're "Shock and Awe"

(next time, we're going to be Shock and Ahhhh Shucks!)

We had a blast and are looking forward to the next race - the Texas Dare. That will be in December. I think we have officially lost it.

Actually, our next race will be a "simple" 5k September. That will be the Reaching Overweight Children Fun Run in Kemah, Texas.

We're ready!

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