Meet SnackyPants

As the legend goes, SnackyPants burst forth out of her mother's womb and asked for a pair of running shoes. In her youth, she was apparently one of the only children known to wear out a Jolly Jumper and is still not allowed to have any sugar after noon. Later on in life, she chartered her excess energy into more ambitious athletic pursuits, including soccer, horseback riding, and long distance running before being inspired by Eco-Challenge and decided to give adventure racing a try. For the first four years of her adventure racing career, she raced on a co-ed team, in which she viewed her role simply to "shut and keep up." Unsatisfied by not playing a more active role on the team, she adopted the title of Director in Charge of Snacks, which eventually led to her current moniker, SnackyPants. Believing that the calories burned in adventure racing is an excellent excuse to indulge in all of one's favorite foods guilt-free, her favorite racing snacks usually involve the irresistable combination of peanut butter and chocolate, though she is also known to be partial to anything involving salt and nuts. She likes to make sure that everyone is eating adequately and has even been known to share her snacks with other teams who ran out of food or who simply had less tasty options available.

This year, after an inspiring week at Frontier Adventure Racing's Mexico Training Week, SnackyPants and Toots-in-Tights decided they no longer wanted to follow the boys around anymore (not to be confused with chasing the boys, which is another matter entirely), and decided to try racing as an all female team. As lead navigator, SnackyPants devoted much of her spring training to figuring out the mathematical calculation for declination, taking online map symbol quizzes, and competing in orienteering races. Although still new to the role as navigator, SP enjoys decision-making and the thrill of finding CPs in right place. She loves swamping but does not like leeches and swears she will retire from adventure racing if she ever finds one on her legs. She falls off her bike a lot and has been known to photograph her injuries.

In addition to an action-packed adventure racing schedule, SnackyPants still finds time to enjoy other sports, regularly competing in road and trail running events and the occasional mountain bike race. Calling racing "my form of crack," she is currently undergoing psychological testing for her apparent addiction to race-induced endorphins and amino acid supplements. Her long term racing goals include trying out some expedition-length adventure races, ultrarunning and maybe an Ironman or two.

She is a Taurus, is usually missing at least one toenail, and believes that "naps are for the weak."