Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic at the Gold Rush Nov 4-8, 2009

Well...this weekend was a strange one, and the Adventure Racing Gods were cruel.. We were on pace to win the notoriously tough Gold Rush Adventure Race put on by Mark Richardson and Adrian Crane, and then someone threw a wrench in the plans, and it was all gone before our eyes. The team was stacked. We had borrowed Glenn Rogers from the famed Nuun/Feed the Machine who is an animal, and a cool duder to boot. We have our new teamie and comrade-in-arms Kyle Peter who is a human lung. Leslie Reuter who is a super tough all-around Queen of the Machine, and then Charlie"Sherpa" Kharsa who is pound for pound one of the toughest guys out there, and you had the makings of a SUPER squad. This team had pushed the pace and now had a comfortable 4 1/2 hour lead over 2nd place team NORCAL AR who only had 3 team members to our four, when Glenn took a tumble while race walking/map reading on a technical trail. The fall resulted in a broken finger which he almost cut off, and had exposed the tendons. The team races safely first so it was time to hit the SPOT gps 911 button, and get him out of the back-country and to the hospital to save the digit, and so we were off and running to do just that. So after a period at the hospital, and a well deserved burrito dinner, sadly the team was still in the lead, but out of the race due to receiving outside assistance. We raced hard, we pushed the pace, we learned alot about this team working together, and we came away proud in the knowledge that we worked well together, and until the mishap, were rocking the course and were on pace for a very fast race, and a well deserved win. But adventure racing sometimes throws you a curve to humble you, and so we live to race another day. When is that day? Jan 15-17th in Georgia where we will try to take the first Checkpoint Tracker points away from Granite AR and Nuun. We have our work cut out for us, but we feel we are ready to rock. 2010 here we come, whether your ready for us or not. See you there!


cheers!

Earring Doug Judson-Team Captain of Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic adventure racing