Participated in my first adventure race this Saturday, what an awesome experience!!

Tom Brown has many more cool features than I thought - extensive mountain biking trails(SO FUN), gorgeous water features, and plenty of walking paths. Trevor, Ryan and I were team Arr We Tharr Yet, and we were actually recognized as the pirates we subtly dressed up as, even though the stripy shirts brought the question, “Are you prison escapees?” a couple of times.

Laurel and Nick were there with a bootcamp-themed mystery challenge, canoeing was difficult and tiring but fun, and the biking was the funnest to me. The main page estimated distances because I have no idea how far we went…

• 3-5k trekking
• 8-10k mountain biking
• 2-3k paddling

It was broken up by various checkpoints and challenges, so 3 hours and 12 minutes later, we were done! Exhausted, sweaty, and dirty but we conquered it!

Midtown that night was pretty fun too, it started out a little bit disorganized to to a late printing of the scavenger hunt passports, but once they were distributed we went all around midtown to get our quest completed. Cerese joined us for that too, and there was copious amounts of free beer, cupcakes, snow cones, mojito, airbrush tattoos, and laughing. We got our papers in just in time, too!

I can’t wait for this event to come back next year!