Posted on 04/16/08 9:39 PM| by team-admin
Dan and Chris teamed up with Cathy Diamond for the Planet Adventure 28 hour adventure race in Story Indiana on April 6, 2008. The trio covered the course in 25 hrs and 52 minutes to take 9th overall and 2nd place in the masters division. As usual for team MAAR, this was a race of attrition, as 17 of the 30 teams starting the race DNF’d. The race began at 0800 on Saturday and after a quick 5-6 mile trek, teams hit the mountain bikes for some muddy single track and backroad riding. Team MAAR “misinterpreted” pre race instructions to stay off of the routes up Browning Hill (actually, only the trail was off limits and not the road). That forced the team to look for alternate routes (which were all under water!). Eventually, the team made it to the orienteering course but had burned a good 90 minutes with their mistake. The orienteering course went well, with Team MAAR posting the 9th best time on the 12+ mile O-course. Then it was off to the paddle. This was to be the defining moment for most teams. Teams that started the paddle with 2 hours or more of daylight ahead of them did well while those who started later had an impossible time navigating the overflowing river at night. Team MAAR started with only 30 minutes of daylight left but stuck with it, while most teams who dropped out did so during the night paddlle as temps dropped into the low 30’s and hypothermia was a real problem. Some teams had to find shore and “camp” until daylight when they could then paddle out to quit. Once off the paddle, Team MAAR hit one of the trekking points and biked to the finish. Overall, a good PQ practice day for Team MAAR. See more on the Planet Adventure checkpoint tracker website at:
 http://www.checkpointtracker.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.showDashboard&eventID=134
 
Dan, Chris and Cathy prior to the start of Planet Adventure 28 hour Challenge
