After many hours and calls, I finally filled the roster for the Run, Row, and Roll less than 10 days from the race. An up and coming race director and fellow Kansan, Charmion Harris joined Jake and I for the duration of the course. She was planning on sitting this race out after finding out that it was three member teams only, but she gladly filled our hole and challenged her team to "keep up."
June 19th
2:30pm - lonely drive up Missouri and across Nebraska (no phone reception)
6pm - met up with Jake at race HQ and got race packet(s)
6:30pm - got Subway (seems to be a race tradition)
7pm -plotted map and organized gear
8pm - drove part of course
10ish - bed
June 20th
5:15am - rise and shine
6am - bike drop
7:30am - prerace meeting
8am - start
We began this race with a mysterious "red neck subway" (horsetrailer) ride to the start. We exited in mass to a 3-4 mile run to our first "challenge." Build a raft from innertubes and a 2x4 ladder that matched a diagram. With that successfully done, we took two paddles and floated/walked it ~1.5 miles down the Little Blue River. After loading the "raft" back into another trailer we ran another half mile to the bike transition. We picked some time and spots during this first wheeled section. But the flat and rolling hills, pavement and gravel quickly became dirt and grass tracks into canyons you wouldn't expect to find in the Midwest (especially Nebraska). I think the barefoot running through the river caught up with me, because hike and bike with my cleats caused some wild calf/achilles cramps. Also the wet sand started chewing my feet up pretty bad. Oh well, no pain... Anyway, the other team events were fun (archery, stationary calf roping, mud plinko) as well. We continued on throughout our difficulties and the rain, having an awesome trekking section. One more long ride, and a total of just under 9 hours later we finished to a BBQ sandwich meal! Yum!
I was so brain dead after this race though, that I left my bike shoes at the finishe line. Thankfully, Jim Craig (angry cow adventures owner) got them back to me quickly (and clean!).
Before and after with Jake, Charmion & the Lake Adventures crew.
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