So we finished 21st out of 45 teams in the bike, and we were the 1st of 5 female teams to finish the bike leg. The run did not go as smoothly as the bike. It wasn’t that we were'nt fast enough, it was that our navigation was not the best. There were 11 check points in the run. We made it to the first 3 check point with ease, and we were keeping up with 3 all males team, one team was def an Army team of sorts and we were keeping up! (YEHAW) We arrived to a point where 2 guys teams went one way and one team went the other. We stopped and looked at our map and our compass and decided we needed to be on the Forbes State border trail, and take that until we see a few houses. We followed this trail…and still we saw no houses, we started to panic a little but reassured ourselves when we saw footprints, or the grass we claimed was freshly stomped down in the direction we were going...we followed it FOREVER. We even saw two competitors who told us that it might not be the right way, we brushed them off and said thanks, but we are going to go this way anyways. We must have gone 30 minutes in that direction until we decided to turn around...Errrrrrrghhhhh we were wrong! After turning around and half walking half running back to where we were, we found checkpoint 4 totally by chance, we continued easily to find 5, 6, and 7, check point 8 took some time, almost an hour. We were 5 hours and 30 minutes into the race, we knew that the awards cermony was probably over, and we were starting to wonder if there would be any food left. Morale was down and we were sick of the luna moons, and gummies, and cliff bars, we wanted real food and we wanted to be out of there!! We knew we had to finish, so we conutined on to 9, and 10, and evententually back to TA. As we rounded the corner back to TA we started a great run because we wanted everyone to see us finish strong…when we turned the corner, where 6 hours before there had been over 100 bikes, we saw only 2 lonely lonely bikes…they were our bikes, there was not a soul left. No one was still recovering or socializing or even packing up…it was like no one was ever there. We waved down Bethann and she said "oh I'm so glad to see you girls, Frank is out there looking for you". It ended up taking us 6 hours and 17 minutes. We finished 50 minutes behind the second last team. But we finished! And that is exactly what we wanted to do. We were proud, and we pulled up our cooler and ate our picnic lunch of pasta salad and watermelon, with my ankle dripping some blood and with enough energy to take off our helmets - we FEASTED. We drove home and laughed about our adventure that day, while munching on a fresh pack of OREOS (thanks Lisa)!
P.S. Frank mentioned our finish in the race re-cap
And our "lantern rouge" goes to Team Green Governor BEASTS—Kristen LoGrasso and Lisa Miano—who stayed on the course for six hours and seventeen minutes so as to not repeat last year’s DNF. These girls are coming on…
Yes Frank we are certainly coming on…Look out for us on JULY 18th!! We are definitely ready to place in the Women's Division! Fingers Crossed
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