Adventure Racing 3:52:00 [4]
Proud to have the whole family racing together for the first time. We even brought our trailer up and camped in an open spot with some other families. Decided to paddle first and picked up Root Beer chug right away. J announced prerace that she wanted to do the CD dive, so there next. She was all ready to dive in, then hesitated, but then went for it. Down to the island CP, then over for Mrs. W to do the inner tube swim. Back around for the extra family CPs then up to the top of the lake. We tried for the CP up the creek, but the team decided they weren't bushwhack fans so back to the canoe. Over to the floating CP, then to the SUP course, then back to hub. Quick detour to the slingshots (I aced it yet again) then onto our bikes. Stopped for C to cruise the ropes course, then onto Lakota trail. Drawback of doing the trailbuilding late is the trailhead was quite a ways in there, so we were getting short of time and had to hustle. Got the instructions for the bonus 80 pt CP, but when we got back to the road, we had <15 min to get it and back to the finish line and the team didn't think we could get it, so onto the finish for a very respectable 7th place family division finish. Always fun racing with Mrs. W and great to add both kids to the team. C was solid, although not the happiest racer, and J was gung ho the whole way for her first race. Thanks to Storm & crew for a great event.
