Funderstorms the Ten

This past weekend, the Funderstorm was officially unleashed at Sean Roper's inaugural Storm the Ten 10 hour adventure race relay. The girls thought that this would be a laidback, easy race to get back into the swing of things before their fall racing season gets underway.

Wrong.

It was hard. Much harder than anticipated. Locating the race at a ski hill should have indicated that there would be some climbing involved, but the girls were perhaps overly optimistic that "it wouldn't hurt too much."

The 10km course involved the following: running down a set of stairs and across a beach, kayaking to the other end of Kelso lake, dragging kayak up a hill, running (uphill, of course) to the bike TA, biking up the ski hill then through the woods to the run TA, dropping off the bike, running a loop on the Bruce Trail, getting back on the bike, riding down ski hill with teeth clenched, dropping off bike, running back to lake, paddling back across lake, then, to add insult to injury, running up loooonnnnnggg set of stairs to tag off for the next lap.

All that in 10km? I'm tired just thinking about it.

Funderstorm's initial strategy was for each member to do two laps at a time, so as to have a longer break in between laps. This idea didn't last very long however, as it was determined that there would be a need for snacks, peeing, changing clothes, and complaining about the course in between each lap. Despite gripes about hills, sore muscles, and lack of escalators, the dynamic duo managed to peel off 8 laps in 9 hours and 34 minutes. This performance, which bested many of the teams in other divisions as well, secured them second place in the tag team division, ahead of both the coed teams in that category, but unfortunately behind the apparently infatiguable Tree Huggers. In the opening lap, SP also posted the fastest female time, but it was mainly just so she could take a rest.



Next up: ARC Barrie on October 13th