Win in Augusta. Sights set on national championship

It wasn't clean or pretty, but Lisa, Allen and Bryan added a final overall win of their 2006 regular season at the Savannah River/Augusta Canal Adventure Race. Put on by Kando Adventures, the 8 hr. race featured a rappel and traverse along with approximately 25 miles of terrain along the canal and greenway. Despite breaking away during the initial 2-mile run, it was a tight victory as the team see-sawed back and forth with a handful of teams that benefitted from local knowledge and shortcuts aplenty. Enduraventure trailed two 2-person teams until the last 3 miles of the race, but buckled down, nailed the final orienteering point and arrived to the canal zip-line in first place by 5 minutes. The second place elite team, Fukarwi finished approx 1 hour later.

Now we head into overtime, where the only official business left on the 2006 schedule is the 30-hr USARA National Championship Race in Santa Barbara, Nov 3 & 4. The race will serve as the culmination of our racing season and they seem to be peaking at just the right time. We'll be competing against the world's most dominant adventure racing team, Nike Powerblast and are looking forward to the chance to see how we stack up. These guys have won pretty much EVERYTHING they've ever done, whether adventure racing, MTB, kayaking, etc, so we know that a lot of things will have to go our way in order to be competitive with them. Top amatuer teams Silly Rabbit's, EMS, MOAT, and several more regionally dominating teams will be there with the same thoughts. But it is adventure racing, so anyone can win given the right set of circumstances. Between now and then, we're going to be training our absolute asses off to give ourselves the best possible shot at racing to our potential.