Sunday, November 15, 2009

Adventure Race Saturday. We go from the pre-race talk, the run across the bridge to our bikes, pushing our bikes uphill (which we became quite good at!), riding into transition area, walking out of TA for the FIRST time, coming back into TA after a confusing WARM UP loop (read LOST!)... Long 4+ hours for the whole race. We were doing really good until Check Point 10 (of 11) that we just couldn't quite find it. We were right there but some how just missed it and spent a lot of time back tracking and ended up just calling it a day and heading back to finish area.

Some bruises, cuts, sore legs, a lot of effort and one sore butt made it quite a good day in all.










The Best view of the team!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

3 comments:

Lauren said...

Great pictures! The last one is classic -- I could really FEEL that one. Sounds like a fun race (except for that part about pushing bikes uphill, seemed like a scene right out of Dante's Inferno)

Lauren

Rich Merritt said...

You mean the butt shot? thank God I didn't take it but it is my favorite one. It was a lot of fun and Yasuko hadn't been on a bike in like 9 years and only tried out this bike on Wed. before the race once around the block. So she is a big time trooper going with the flow! She's awesome ...
How is your IT issue?

Lauren said...

IT issue still there, but that's not stopping me from having some fun. All the pics were great, but I really liked that one where you both are climbing the hill, so tired, but obviously not beaten, because you're still climbing -- I love that kind of stuff : )