Holly’s Blog

Event: Mountain Bike Race

Approximate distance: 1 lap = 5 miles

Lap time: 34:50

Temperature outdoors: 96 degrees

Humidity 99%

Heat Index: felt like 100 degrees (perhaps celsius!)

Insects: mosquitos actually tried to carry off one rider who stopped for too long on the “Dagobah/Swamp Trail” Seriously… you can’t stop out there… no amount of Deet keeps off the swarms.

Mud: present in multiple locations, enough to make spectacular flings.

Water: generally tends to be on a least one side of you at all times… at least I suppose it was there… you couldn’t really see any for all of the green scum on top.

Roots: ha, you haven’t seen roots till you’ve ridden these trails (and I use “ridden” lightly… sometimes it is more of  a rough heave and a “jounce” over and over and over them… oh, my aching quads!)

Women: besides myself, one wife there for moral support, for a grand total of 2

Fun Scale: 8… would have been SOOOOO much better if #1. I knew ANYONE there. #2. I wasn’t the only girl racing. #3. it hadn’t been SOOO hot and humid!!! #4. It had not been on a Sunday morning around church time! #5. If I had some cheerleaders there!

Rankings: #1 in Womens First Timer ( I was  the ONLY one!!! stiff competition for that!!! HA!) #2 in First Timer category (men and  women) The plaques are on my wall already!
Fastest lap time out there was 24:16, first timers did 1 lap, beginners 2, and sport did 4… no one raced “expert” 5 laps. A 15ish year old boy did a lap in 25:10, put me to shame!

I LOVE ADVENTURE RACING!!!!!

Granted… our #1 goal in the next race is to complete it… but that’s a long story… we were on the last leg of the race and simply ran out of time! It was Spectacular though… Some parts were just pure FUN… some, granted, were pure torture!!! All in all, my worst fear has come true… I think I’m addicted!!! I have to send out a HUGE thank you to my teammates… ya’ll were absolutely WONDERFUL to work with… we never had a single quarrel along the long, treacherous way. The real fun was who you were competing with.

Ok, also as a side note I have a new-found LOVE for the compass… those little things are mind-boggling effective. I had So much fun navigating today!!!

So… I’ve been too excited to sleep!!! I went to bed right before 11 last night and promptly woke up at 1245… wide awake! I finally gave up and started getting all of my stuff ready and cleaning my apartment. It’s sad when you are washing dishes at 3 am… something’w definitely wrong with that. anyway… in 5 hours I will be on the “Great Adventure”!

Now that I no longer update, I suppose I can just post in relative anonymity for a while now until someone, in extreme boredom and (questionable) loyalty, checks this abandoned blog of mine.

Ok, now to the good stuff!!!

I’m SOOO excited… my plane tickets to Nepal are finally booked and my Adventure Race is this Saturday!!! Can’t complain! This Adventure Race is going to be SOOO hilarious… I just can’t wait! I just hope everyone makes it out in one piece and still friends!

That’s all for now…

BTW… next on my list of “To Do Things (that everyone has given up on me every doing)”

Upload songs to my ipod