Some great efforts this past weekend by Team Inov-8 athletes. Amber Moran won yet another road race this time at the 10 mile distance, posting a blistering 1:00:51. She won the women's title rather convincingly at the Calhouns 10-Miler near Knoxville, TN.
Team ROAM/Inov-8 finished 2nd OA and 1st place co-ed just missing the win by a few minutes at the Sandman AR at Red Top Mtn, GA. Race report from Dwight Shuler below.
At the Mountain Mist 50k in Huntsville, AL we had strong performances by DeWayne Satterfield taking 3rd OA in 4:17 and Jeremy Ramsey posting a 4th place finish in 4:28.
Sandmann Adventure Race Recap.
Team ROAM/Inov-8 started off the Adventure Racing season with a quick 6 hour event in Red Top Mountain, GA. Heavy rains overnight muddied up the course but gave way midway through the race and the team, Paul Humphreys, Julia Radmann and Dwight Shuler pulled out a very strong showing with a 2nd OA and 1st place COED win in the Elite division.
Race Report: by Dwight Shuler
The event was broken up into 3 different legs. Boating, Treking and Mt. Biking. Each team had to decide which leg to start off with. After picking a discipline, the teams were given instructions and coordinates to plot and plan their course for only that section of the race. Each section had about 7-8 points to locate and punch before heading back to race headquarters to receive instructions for the next section with a new set of points to plot and race to collect.
Since it was raining already, we were going to be wet anyway, we decide to paddle first. It turned out to be a good choice as the wind picked up speed during the day and was looking a bit stiff for the teams coming off the water at the end of the day. The points were pretty straight forward. After a 2 mile paddle, we portaged our boat over a small strip of land to collect the first point. We continued onto the next point where we had to ditch the boat. We were greeted with a small team test of carrying one teammate up the beach before heading off on foot to collect three more points. Returning to the boat, we once again did the same teammate carry before heading out to collect the last point. A short portage with the boat then we were heading back to race HQ. We finished this leg with a small five minute lead in 1st place.
We chose to head out on the bikes next. After a quick plotting and planning session we were off. This was a pretty short section with a break in the middle where we had to ditch the bikes and head out on foot to hit two more spots before returning on bikes to collect the reaming points. We found everything pretty quickly until I forgot how to read and took us a few minutes in the wrong direction. Thanks to Julia’s quick memory about ditching the bikes, we were back on course with just a small time delay. Whew! The rest was fairly uneventful except for Paul’s flat tire about two miles from the end. We tried to re-inflate it with a CO2 blast but it lasted only about 3 minutes before returning to its non-functional state. We were really too close to the end to spend the time to fix it properly so Julia took the lead and Paul sucked it up and ran the last mile in his biking shoes while I rode both bikes in. Nice team effort for this leg but we lost a few minutes and were now in second place.
We knew we would be strong in the trekking section so we saved it for last. Again, there were a new set of about 8 points that were mostly off trail. We could get them in any order so we decided on a route getting the hardest points first. We found our bearings quickly and used a combination of trails and off trail orienteering to hit all the points. Both Paul and I had different maps with different scales. Between the two of us, we were able to nav to everything with no mistakes. One of the points was manned and we had to perform another team test involving a blindfolded racer, a lot of ropes and biners and a strange maze of multi-colored strings through the forest. I have never seen this one before and I don’t even know how to describe it but we worked out the puzzle and finished off with a great bushwhack back to the finish line.
We made up a bit of time on this section but still finished about 8 minutes back from the fast 2-person team that we were chasing for the second half of the race. Still, we cleaned the course and grabbed first place in the CoEd Elite division about 45 minutes ahead of the next team. A good showing for our inaugural race of the year.
We all used our RacePro 18 packs (a perfect size for this race) and had a smorgasbord of Inov-8 shoes. Paul, (Bigfoot), went for the Flyrock 345 GTX, Julia and I chose the RocLite 312 GTX but when I came back off the bike and saw my toasty dry RocLite 320’s, I could resist and slid on the trusty workhorses. We fueled up with Honey Stinger gels and NUUN electrolytes for a great sprint race combination.
Sandmann Adventure Race Recap.
Team ROAM/Inov-8 started off the Adventure Racing season with a quick 6 hour event in Red Top Mountain, GA. Heavy rains overnight muddied up the course but gave way midway through the race and the team, Paul Humphreys, Julia Radmann and Dwight Shuler pulled out a very strong showing with a 2nd OA and 1st place COED win in the Elite division.
Race Report: by Dwight Shuler
The event was broken up into 3 different legs. Boating, Treking and Mt. Biking. Each team had to decide which leg to start off with. After picking a discipline, the teams were given instructions and coordinates to plot and plan their course for only that section of the race. Each section had about 7-8 points to locate and punch before heading back to race headquarters to receive instructions for the next section with a new set of points to plot and race to collect.
Since it was raining already, we were going to be wet anyway, we decide to paddle first. It turned out to be a good choice as the wind picked up speed during the day and was looking a bit stiff for the teams coming off the water at the end of the day. The points were pretty straight forward. After a 2 mile paddle, we portaged our boat over a small strip of land to collect the first point. We continued onto the next point where we had to ditch the boat. We were greeted with a small team test of carrying one teammate up the beach before heading off on foot to collect three more points. Returning to the boat, we once again did the same teammate carry before heading out to collect the last point. A short portage with the boat then we were heading back to race HQ. We finished this leg with a small five minute lead in 1st place.
We chose to head out on the bikes next. After a quick plotting and planning session we were off. This was a pretty short section with a break in the middle where we had to ditch the bikes and head out on foot to hit two more spots before returning on bikes to collect the reaming points. We found everything pretty quickly until I forgot how to read and took us a few minutes in the wrong direction. Thanks to Julia’s quick memory about ditching the bikes, we were back on course with just a small time delay. Whew! The rest was fairly uneventful except for Paul’s flat tire about two miles from the end. We tried to re-inflate it with a CO2 blast but it lasted only about 3 minutes before returning to its non-functional state. We were really too close to the end to spend the time to fix it properly so Julia took the lead and Paul sucked it up and ran the last mile in his biking shoes while I rode both bikes in. Nice team effort for this leg but we lost a few minutes and were now in second place.
We knew we would be strong in the trekking section so we saved it for last. Again, there were a new set of about 8 points that were mostly off trail. We could get them in any order so we decided on a route getting the hardest points first. We found our bearings quickly and used a combination of trails and off trail orienteering to hit all the points. Both Paul and I had different maps with different scales. Between the two of us, we were able to nav to everything with no mistakes. One of the points was manned and we had to perform another team test involving a blindfolded racer, a lot of ropes and biners and a strange maze of multi-colored strings through the forest. I have never seen this one before and I don’t even know how to describe it but we worked out the puzzle and finished off with a great bushwhack back to the finish line.
We made up a bit of time on this section but still finished about 8 minutes back from the fast 2-person team that we were chasing for the second half of the race. Still, we cleaned the course and grabbed first place in the CoEd Elite division about 45 minutes ahead of the next team. A good showing for our inaugural race of the year.
We all used our RacePro 18 packs (a perfect size for this race) and had a smorgasbord of Inov-8 shoes. Paul, (Bigfoot), went for the Flyrock 345 GTX, Julia and I chose the RocLite 312 GTX but when I came back off the bike and saw my toasty dry RocLite 320’s, I could resist and slid on the trusty workhorses. We fueled up with Honey Stinger gels and NUUN electrolytes for a great sprint race combination.
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