Results

I know it's been over a week since the race has finished but I haven't been able to sit down and work on the site since my last post.

Our two man team was able to finish within the 6 hour allotted time but we were only able to get 1 checkpoint during the whole race! The course was too big and the checkpoints were too far apart for a 6 hour race. The 12 and 24 hour racers had plenty of time to get the checkpoints they needed. For the 6 hour people, we set up our bikes about 7-8 miles away and from the starting line, run to the bikes. There were four checkpoints before the bikes that were off the main trail a good ways. The first checkpoint we decided to go after was CP-11 and after 2 hours of searching down old trails and bushwhacking through the woods, we just couldn't find it. As we were passing other teams they told us that they couldn't find it either. So we wasted all kinds of time at that checkpoint. Then we started to the next CP and by the time we got that one, it was 3 hours into the race. On our way to the third checkpoint we got lost in a maze of trails and after about 4.5 hours in the race, we ran out of water and decided to head back to the finish so we didn't go over time.

This race was good in that you really had to know your navigation skills, most trails weren't labeled so you had to use a compass and look at hill tops and valleys and match them with your map. I just wish it wasn't so hot and the checkpoints were closer together so it keeps the moral up. I'll definitely do one again just maybe not this one.