Another weekend, another win

Lisa Randall, Neal Radford, and Bill Fletcher (of Snickers Marathon fame) took another overall win at this past weekend's Save-The-World Adventure Race in South Carolina. They managed to find 42 of the 46 total checkpoints on the "modified-rogaine" course format... and did so with nearly 2 hours left to play with. As was the case with the team's 2 previous wins at STW in '05 & '06, route selection and execution with nav were keys to defending their title. The victory serves as the team's 5th straight, and 6th of the year.

Prior to the start of the STW race, Lisa participated in her first Xterra event (Fort Yargo) and earned a podium position among the women's overall. Despite a bruising & eye-opening start in the washing machine-esque opening swim leg, she mounted an impressive campaign with top bike and run splits to close the gap and nearly win her age group. Enjoy the victory while you can, ladies, because Lisa's coming.

Alive and kicking... butt.

Yes, we've been neglecting our blog so hideously that no excuse can begin to justify it. Well, maybe one. We've been out training and racing like crazy and just haven't had time to do much of anything else. Get the house ready for sale? No. Clean the car? No. Update the blog? No. Just racing racing racing.

To make a long update short, here's a contrite list of bullet points:
-Picked up local bike shop sponsor Outspokin' Bikes, who we're proud to represent this year and have helped us out with some new Turner whips, and trick uni's which we'll be certain to soil soon.
-5 wins in 6 adventure races so far this year. Not perfect and not necessarily even pretty but not too shabby for a bunch of punks:
Sandmann AR - 1st (Lisa, James, and Dave Witherow)
Woodstock Goldrush 24 AR - 1st(Bryan, Lisa and Bo Martin)
Checkpoint Zero AR - 1st (Lisa, James, Bryan)
Blue Ridge Mountains AR - 1st (Allen, Bryan, Lisa)
Odyssey Efix AR - 1st (Bryan)
Florida Swamp Stomp - 6th (James, Allen, Bryan, Lisa)
-We've held a couple nav, biking and AR 101 clinics
-We slept a couple days in February, but haven't since then.

Coming up:
The Save-The-World Adventure Race will test Lisa, Neal Radford and Bill Fletcher's navigation prowess. A full-on multisport rogaine, they'll have lots of route & discipline choices.

The Michigan Expedition Race (MIX) will be one of the biggest domestic races of the year. 4 days in the Upper Penninsula against a stacked field is likely going to be one of our biggest challenges of the year.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.