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Jan 17, 2004 - Crew Zen is an official
finisher at NGAR
"Despite
cold and rainy weather, we manage to finish an alternate course in just under
30 hours. It was fun, wet, hard, long and SATISFYING. The picture
below shows us pooring over the maps for the upcoming bike section ... we
should've triple checked CP10!" - Carey
Nov 15,
2003 - Paige Parties On Her Last Run "In what will almost certainly be
her final run before her "cure", Paige parties at the Run For The Cure 5k in
Ybor City Saturday night. Paige will undergo surgery Monday
(11/17) to have her ankle fused. We wish her well and hope for a
rapid return to an active, pain-free life." - Carey
Sep
22, 2003 - Wild Onion Chicago “Sorry to have to report that Crew Zen
failed to complete the 2003 Wild Onion in Chicago; although it did NOT make us
cry! I think only about 12
teams out of 40 completed the entire course.
We
were just not fast enough to make the cutoff times. After 20 hours of
racing, we bagged it. No regrets from me. Parts of it were fun
(skating 12 miles along the lake, coasteering over the boulders for 5 miles,
climbing the Sears tower), parts of it were beautiful (canoeing right through
downtown at night), parts of it were not so fun (running practically the
entire 12 mile "trek", only to find out we still weren't fast enough to
make the estimated time), and parts of it were miserable (paddling through
super smelly, nasty water while trying to stay awake, knowing we already missed
the cutoff).
Oh well, this is a race I surrender to.” -
Carey
“I
don't think Carey whined enough, so I'm going to add to her story a little
bit.
We
had to carry our PFDs and shoes on the skate so that we could wear them for the
coasteering. Of course then we had to wear our packs over our PFDs and
carry our skates while coasteering, and then again on the stairs in the Sears
tower. It was a heavy load and hot and we lost a lot time there.
After that we lost some more time during the urban trek, which turned out
to be a half marathon. It was through the south side of Chicago, so
you know we were running as fast as we could. We lost more time
when we stopped at McDonalds for breakfast after the cold, smelly,
sleep canoe leg.
I
think we were close to the estimated times on the 1st skate, the canoe, and the
bike, but lost time on everything else. The heavy loads really hurt us
and we were not fast enough to meet the cut off times. I'm not sure we
would have been fast enough without the heavy packs. We have figured out
that we are not cut out for urban racing. It is really too bad because it
is a lot of fun.” - Nancy
