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Winter Adventure with my son

Mar

2016

A couple of weeks ago with our Winter Adventure race. Sheri and I planned to do the 4 hour course but was sick on race day. I contemplated racing on my own, but then I asked my son if he wanted to join me. We dropped down to the 2 hour race for his first ...

1st Orienteering Event 2016

Feb

2016

2 hours of running through a local State Park finding checkpoints! We felt good. It was a beautiful day with full sunshine. Have to love that in the Nebraska winter! We felt strong on navigation and didn’t have any trouble finding most of the checkpoints. We slowed down immensely when we got the part ...

Winter training plans 1

Nov

2015

Last run in beautiful state park! I haven’t posted in a long time. Sometimes life happens. But we are still at it and planning and gearing up for 2016. We have a lot of events on the schedule for 2016 and we are also changing our team name. Time to upgrade from the Knotheads! ...

The Break Up 1

Apr

2015

On March 21 we did a 6 hour Adventure Race at Milford Lake KS. It was our first out of state race! We had some great moments and some not so great moments. We drove to Manhattan Friday night after work. Found our hotel and went out to grab something to eat. We ate at a ...

The Plan. 1

Mar

2015

What’s in store for 2015? So far in 2015 we’ve done: 6 mile trail run Orienteering Challenge 6 miles trail run 2 hour adventure race 10 mile trail run. What’s next? March 20th: I’m super pumped that we just signed up to do Break Up Adventure’s 6 hour Short Course at Milford Lake, KS! April ...

2nd Panama Adventure Race

Mar

2015

I really want to write about our adventure race, but first I must tell you how awesome Sheri is! On Saturday she ran up 40 flights of stairs for Omaha’s Trek the Towers event! Then we did a mini triathlon at a local health club that afternoon! She kicked my butt by the way. ...

Catching up…and gearing up for 2015. 1

Feb

2015

2015 is going to be a great year! Although I’ve missed posting a few events lately, I wanted to start off with 2015! January has started out a little slow, with me being sick more often that not. I’m really ready to start feeling good again. Earlier in January we did a 6 mile trail ...

Family Adventure Race

Oct

2014

In September we did a little family adventure race. All 4 us participated. It was out at a local lake. It was a beautiful day. We had a map with clues and checkpoints plotted. We let the kids lead the way and decide which direction to go with little help from us. My daughter said ...

10 hour Adventure Race

Sep

2014

We did it. We participated in a 10 hour adventure race. It was pretty good for 8. The last 2 were brutal. It was very hot and humid that day. Like over 100 degrees hot. We were on our way by 5:15 and made it to the starting lake at 6:00 for check in. ...

State Games Adventure Race 1

Jul

2014

Last Saturday we completed another Adventure Race. As we got into the car to leave we said…how is it so much fun to run through poison ivy, get scratched up from weeds and tree branches, run, bike, swim for 3 hours? We had another great time. It’s like being a kid on a scavenger ...