I'm about 7 weeks late attempting to summarize this race, sorry to those of you who wanted to hear about it sooner. After writing this thing I'm pretty sure the main reason I kept putting it off was because I didn't want to mentally relive the race itself. Everytime I look back on it I have fond memories, but when I really start to think about it I know there were some real dark periods of time, and with a 48 hour race on the horizon I didn't want to psych myself out.

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This was the first adventure race any of us had ever competed in. Eric and I had just met a couple months prior through a few friends, and on a run at work one day the subject of adventure racing came up. AR’s were something both of us had wanted to try but never found anyone else crazy enough to jump right in. I had raced the Tough Mudder a few months prior and wanted to find something even more challenging, and he was an all around strong athlete, so we took a look on the USARA website and discovered this race about six weeks prior to race day. We signed up instantly.

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