CLUB RACE/EVENT RESULTS

Club members please feel free to post up your race results/events results on this thread. Outside of your time/placing....post up what you learned..what gear worked..what didn't. Provide a good synopsis of the race course/ race management to provide insider information to fellow club members.

FROM ROB: CLUB RESULTS FROM THE SWAMP STOMP

Just wanted everyone to know that Wanderlust and Jeff E competed in the 30 hour Swamp Stomp race this past weekend ... and nabbed 3rd place in the two person coed division!

Woo hoo!

The weather was gorgeous in Sarasota, FL, but the course was brutal.

They were very close to 2nd and the 1st place team was a 'professional' team so 3rd is quite an accomplishment.

SS08 Race Blog

FROM GREG C: CONGRATS

Well done guys!! ...can't wait to read a race report

FROM DON C: CONGRATS

Good job! Looking forward to some details to inspire us to get out and race!

SWAMP FOX WRITE-UP.

Put up a few more pics from the Swamp Fox Race.

I raced with Dale Long of the Columbia Chapter and we were hoping to move up from our 5th overall finish from 2007. This was one of those races were you're reminded of the essence of this sport and that is to stay in the fight and keep pressing. Both Dale and I are solid riders and so with 46 miles of mountain biking we knew we should technically have a good race day.

We ran pretty consistently near the top 5 for the first portion of the morning, often crossing paths with NCARS (Matt Tabor's Group), a couple other male Duo teams and one or two co-ed female teams. With each CP we would move up spots and found ourselves leaving CP7 in second overall....as with most races we struggled with CP8...we had precalculated the distance from an old road bed crossing and paced it off. We then began searching the area and continued not being able to find the marker....in the meantime teams began piling into the area. Frustrating of course knowing that we were potentially losing spots by the minute, we decided to take another attack point which took alot more time but ended up being a good call. When we arrived at CP9 it seemed we were in around 6th or 7th place. With some pretty straight forward riding to 10 and 11 we put the hammer down and and moved back into fourth by CP12. CP12 was the transition to the Orienteering course so we dropped the bikes, grabbed the O maps and took off in pursuit of NCARS and another Duo team.

We decided to do two risky bushwhack sections instead of running the roads and trails around to get the points. Our choice was factored by the woods being pretty clear for visibility and the distances by trails were 3-4X as long our first bushwhack went fairly well and we scooted out on the road to pick-up the next one which was an easy point. We then took a big gamble that Don Childrey also chose to take and that was a 1K bushwhack between points 15 and 14....we stepped into the woods and Dale Long remarked this one will make or break our race.....the movement was tough with some very swampy low lying scrub brush that just tore our lower legs to pieces but we fought through it stumbled onto our handrail road and then went in for the marker CP14 we picked it up, ran out for CP13 and headed for home. When we arrived back at the bikes, there was one duo male team already gone and one gearing up to ride and our gamble had paid off big time. We transitioned quickly in hopes of tracking down second place and closing on the 5-6 minute gap.

Despite riding hard to CP17, 18 and 19 we just couldn't close on 2nd place and ended up with a third overall just 18 minutes out of first place and 13 minutes out of 2nd place...

Stay in the fight.........

UMSTEAD 100 RESULTS:

From Brian T. who only did 62.5 miles..............................................

Congrats to Ernie for completing all 100 miles in 26:01:58! Charlie succumbed to feet issues (check out his blog for pics) after doing 50 in 10:37:24. My legs were completely trashed after 62.5 and I bailed about 12:30 in.

If you visit www.triangle-ar-team.com and check out Charlie's BLOG on the Umstead Race Report.

I just posted the Waterlogged Dogwoods Race Report from the 3-Day Odyssey Endorphin Fix Adventure Race in the New River area of West Virginia. Mike and I raced for 45+ hours and covered about 125 miles, but ended up not finishing. If you want to know more, read the report - Bob

Great Read Bob, I'm sure you were a bit disappointed with the lack of finish....but man haven't we all been in your situation during races at some point....wet passports...lost passports...even had one stolen during an E-fix race years ago......you guys hung tough though for 45 HRS even with all the mishaps....

Here's a link to my race report from the IsoSeries Yuki-Joy 12 hour AR last month. It was a fun race in a neat part of the state. Thanks Isotopes!!

Race Report
http://advfam.wordpre...

Race photos
http://adventureracin...
http://picasaweb.goog...

Race website
http://www.wfu.edu/~f...

Don

Congrats to Team GoofyAss (Brian T and wanderlust) and TeamAdventure Family (Don C and Patrick) for their first place finishes in the 2008 Tidewater Traverse AR this past weekend! Congrats also to Team Isotopes (Todd and Christine) who took second behind GoofyAss. It was a good race for NC teams!



Pictures are posted in the Photo section. Race report to follow.

Don C