Yesterday around 3pm I get a call from Lisa at work (and work phone calls are reserved for very very important information). "K" she says, and I begin to worry, she sounds like she in the back of a bear den being cornered by a hungry bear. I knew this wasn't a good call. "WHAT" I said, "Is everything , OK", I thought something bad had happened like an accident of some sorts. She had enough courage to slowly speak…"d...did…did…you check your email" she said. "No I didn’t WHY WHAT" I thought the race had been cancelled…but NO it was way way worse...
We received an email yesterday explaining the length of our next race on July 18th. On the website it lists the race as a 4-6 mile trail run, 10-14 mile mountain bike, and 2-4 mile water travel. Sounds good, totally do-able for us! We are ready to rock it!
INSTEAD! He said we would be on a trail run for 9 miles! A bike for 20 miles and in a canoe for 6 miles! Seriously Frank…it took us 4.5 hours to do 4.5 miles last time…ok granted we got really lost but using that math it would take us 9 hours to do the run (ok ok…I know it won't…but still) errrrrrrr! If it took us 6 hours to run 4.5 miles/bike 12 miles, how long is it going to take for us to do twice that? 12 hours…(Ok Lisa, add the head light to the packing list! I think we are going to be out there past dark…that was my only negative thought…ok back to positive thoughts).
There will be no TA at this race, and Bethann gave us a little hint that there would be an obstacle in the canoe…we thought: what could be in the canoe, are we going to be blind-folded…hmmm…no…is there going to be something in the canoe, hmmm they would never have us put our bikes in a canoe right?
We asked Frank via email, his response: "I plead the fifth on the bike/canoe subject. Never say never! : )"
And this is why we are "FREAKING"!
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