Eyes on the Prize - Untamed Virginia 30hr Adventure Race

The Back Story:

Two and a half years ago, some friends and I hatched a plan to get into the best shape of our lives and start Adventure Racing. Our half baked idea was to one day be able to complete a 24hr Adventure Race. Team "Hoplites" was born and we set our eyes on a 4hr sport level AR in the spring of 2007, The Impossible Panther. The Impossible Panther was held in the totally unknown (to us) Uwharrie National Forest near Cary, NC. That race was a wonderful experience and our ideas of how fun it would be were surpassed by leaps and bounds. In the fall, we upped the ante and threw down in the Gold Nugget AR (8hr) put on by the same folks, partially in Morrow Mountain State Park and the Uwharrie National Forest. The middle of the pack finish in each of these races had little effects on the unbelievably fulfilling feeling to overcome each challenge and to have worked as a team to get to each finish in style.

The Beat Goes On:

With two races under our belts and a many learned lessons later, we are ambitiously setting our sites on a 30 hr race in September of 2008 called Untamed Virginia. I have another blog to record workouts so this one will be primarily dedicated to identifying and solving the problems that a race 22 hours longer than our best effort to date will entail.