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  Maine Summer AR 25   Going into my second year of tackling the beloved Maine Summer Adventure Race, I knew I was with the team I wanted. Racing is awesome. Racing with my husband is my favorite. But racing with great friends is a super close second. And there is just something so special about an all female team. Maybe it’s the guaranteed admiration we get from the all male teams doing the shorter races. Maybe it’s the way women are able to read each other so well and communicate just what needs to be said at just the right time. Or maybe it’s just because we all live such hectic lives and never really get to spend such rich, meaningful time together. Either way, our team was exactly what it was meant to be.   To ensure we were as well-oiled of a machine as we could be, I planned a pre-race meeting with Andrea, Jenn, and Cindy. I’ve raced with all of them in different team formations, but this was our first race all together. It may sound extra, but discussing...
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  USARA National Championship Posted by: Elke | On: October 1, 2024 | Race Reports Early on the morning of September 26, three hardheaded, stubborn, and determined adventurers teamed up to travel the 7+ hour route to Snowshoe, West Virginia to push the limits of endurance, perseverance, teamwork, and sheer will power. I’m honored to have been one of those hardheaded fools. Together with Jonathan Offen and Dennis Huber, I had trained and toiled for the months leading up to this race in an attempt to be even mildly competitive in a field of the most elite adventure racers in the country. We went into it with the mindset that finishing midpack was obtainable, but a top 20 finish would be superb. Even just the ride to Snowshoe was exciting and memorable. We chatted, schemed, pep talked, laughed, and pondered what lay ahead in the next few days of excitement. If it weren’t for my persistent difficulty with motion sickness, it would have been a fantastic road trip in and of itself. We re...