This past Saturday found myself and ~240 other people running, biking, and canoeing all through our great city. Well, not all through – the closest we got to uptown was Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar, but close enough.
It was the final of a 7 race series called “Racing to N’Awlins”, put on by Gulf Coast Adventure Racing . Adventure racing is simiar to a triathlon, except fun. We bike (mountain only), run, and canoe. It isn’t bike 25 miles, then run 8, then paddle 5. It’s mixed up. Do a little running, then biking, then a challenge to find the next checkpoint, then bike to the canoe, then run, etc. etc. etc. I guess I’d have to say that hashing is to a marathon as adventure racing is to a triathlon.
I did it with my friends Scott and Meghan/Orleans Perish/Sazerac Attack last year and had an absolute blast. We mixed it up this year. Team Broken Racket had 3 coed teams of 3 this year, and we basically all rode/paddled/ran as one team. While it did slow us down as a whole, it was still fun. Since we had three teams, and I more or less ‘captained’ (ie registered/prepaid for the three of us), I got to name our ‘subteam’.
What did I come up with? Broken Racket’s Galactic Monkey Squadron. Yeaahhhhh…
Anyways, here are all nine of us, doing the ‘ant walk’ for a challenge outside of the Audubon Insectarium on Canal:
