Adventure Racing 1:59:27 [3] 5.67 mi (21:04 / mi)
shoes: New Balance Vazee Summitt Trai
Schuylkill Valley Family Adventure (Race). Team Noah's Big Adventure.
We got there too early, and Noah was ready to go. He rode a new bike that he's borrowing from Zoe before we started, then stated "I don't want to do a race" and "I don't want to find checkpoints." Note - get there later!
I knew that it would be close to finish the full course, and even more so with Noah riding with Rebekah. I finally got him in the Ergo carrier about 20+ minutes in, as Rebekah was already pretty tired of carrying him and the hill. We chose to skip a bonus section early that would have added an extra half mile, and that was a wise choice as it eased up our gameplan. We struggled with one of the stonewall points, and kinda ramped up our speed afterwards. We somehow missed a point in the section stream section - it must have been hiding low. We chose to not go back and grab it, which was pretty silly, as it would have taken less than a minute.
We had a few orienteering sections on our 2nd half, which helped up pick up some speed, and Rebekah was feeling much better on flat ground. We missed an optional point towards the end, as Rebekah ran ahead to grab it, called back "should I get V?" and I responded "yes, come to me!" The last o-section around CP 5 was a ton of fun (even if we saw a 4 foot snake on the trail on the way!!), we motored through it and finished in just under 2 hours, with about 4 or 5 minutes left. We lost to Erik by just one point, but they had a bigger kid!
A super fun race with a huge crowd. The race felt like the frantic ending to an AR, but with no calm before the storm. Noah can't wait for the next one!