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| WFA Certs.... | posted 5/24/2008 6:46:51 PM by rzeigler |
| It took some trying, but I finally talked Kevin in to meeting me in Charleston, SC for a Wilderness First Aid certification course. It was only two days long, so it was very abbreviated. We did get three cert cards though! Maybe we'll have to take the longer course. |
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| Finally... | posted 4/5/2008 2:18:45 PM by rzeigler |
Well... I'm finally getting around to posting an update. I haven’t had much to report since all I’ve been doing is working and sitting around the house getting fat. I’ve gone cold turkey on working out since the Howl at the Moon in October. The only race I’ve run since then was the Hunting Island Adventure Biathlon. The race consisted of a 6-mile kayak and a 4.5-mile trail run. The race director actually said it was an adventure race at the safety brief. I’m pretty sure making people do calisthenics in the middle of the run doesn’t constitute an adventure race… but hey… it is Beaufort.
The race started off pretty well considering. I was the 30th person to finish the kayak leg in about 58 minutes. That all changed on the trail run. My running was so bad that I had to walk part of the time. I had to struggle through the mental torture of being passed by person after person. By the time I made it to the finish line I was 60th of 85 finishers. I haven’t been smoked that bad since the 2000 York River Off-Road Du disaster. (Kevin you know what I mean!) |
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| A Funny Old Picture | posted 12/11/2007 10:28:09 AM by kstricker |
This isn't really related to adventure racing, but I found this old picture on the computer and thought it was worth posting. Several years ago I visited Dave when he was stationed in Hawaii. Biking in Oahu, Dave had a bit of a mishap riding down a pretty steep hill.
I don't remember why I happened to be taking a picture at the time, but it's an interesting picture I like to taunt him with now and again. A few of us have been biking pretty regularly lately and this is a fairly common sight in our group. |
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| Pictures... | posted 11/26/2007 5:26:36 PM by rzeigler |
We finally got the pictures up from the Storm and the Howl at the Moon.
Let me tell you all of a story... of a pact made by three men on a the side of a road on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It was our darkest hour and we were on the verge of a DNF! Reality set in and we all decided that we weren't cut out for multiday races, especially ones that take place on mountainous terrain.
So... can somebody tell me why Kevin wants to do the Untamed New England race now!? How quickly the mind and body forget! |
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