We did it!!! Our first Adventure Race together. We signed up for the Elite Division (COED) and so we knew it would be tough. The meeting was at 7:30am, then we had 30 minutes to strategize and then the race started at 8:30am. The cut-off time was 1:00pm. We made it back at 12:30pm. So we raced hard for 4 hours. We hit all the check points!!!! and we found the Mystery Check-point. It was fun. The challenges were quite easy but the biking and running from place to place became quite exhausting.In the end, we thought we had a chance at 2nd/3rd place, but then found out that the checkpoint at Potowatomi Zoo was for a different division and we were suppose to do a checkpoint at Potowatomi kids kingdom. So a stupid mistakes for us rookies, and the rules state that if you don't get every check-point you can't be considered to win, so even though we got 25 check-points one of them was the wrong one.
This event was really "fast paced". We never stopped to go pee or to drink/eat. We were always moving, drink as you ride. The biking is all broken up, so we biked about 27 miles but you are stopping at check-points all the time, and when you do bike you are sprinting a lot.
I wish I had more photos to show, but of course no time for that! (plus we got wet a lot, so it would be hard to have a camera with you.)
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