http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/ Team Phat Free Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:25:02 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Sports http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:17:11 GMT Ok…so the dreaded King of Jester! First let me say it was a ton of fun…even if it was less than 5 minutes worth of work. I heard about this race last season after it had happened and thought is sounded pretty interesting. This was before I had ever seen Jester Hill. Then sometime later in the season we had hill repeats scheduled on Jester and I thought, all right now I get to see what this is all about. Well, needles to say I wondered why anybody would want to race up such a hill…and then a year later here I am, racing up that hill! Jester village was... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:10:41 GMT I admire Jester Blvd, I do. The .5 mile "hill" boasting approximately 350 vertical feet ranging from 10-20% grade humbles me. So when the King of Jester race made its way around again, it was all Joshua. Even though we both did the training for this event, it was quickly voiced that I was in no way interested in doing the race. So instead I cursed my way up the hill during training days, shaking my head at Joshua as he made the pass back down the hill while I was still trying to pedal-mash my way up it! On the morning of the race Joshua called me around 8am to let me know that he... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:06:19 GMT Ok, I've not yet recovered enough from this race to write anything...however, the Race Director has posted his race recollection and it's awesome! Please take some time to go to the link and read it...it mentions Phat Free a few time!!! whoo-hoo! :) http://www.steelsports.net/2004SuperCooperREVIEW.htm http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:58:31 GMT So Phat Free has put another notch in the racing department. This race wasn't too bad with the exception that it really wasn't an adventure race. It was more like a dirty triathlon, but instead of swimming you had kayaking. No special tasks existed in the race which required the team to work together, which Lauri and I feel is the very essence of an adventure race. On the short run teams had to endure, part of the course took you aprox 20 yards into the lake to walk around two markers in the water. This put the water at about waist deep and was there to provide an energy sap for the return... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/7.html Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:29:44 GMT Urban Assault Race: Teams race through a 20 mile route through the city to reach checkpoints where they perform physical challenges. Racers pick their own course to the checkpoints, which can be reached in any order. The first team to complete all the challenges and return to Start/Finish wins the race! First of all I'm very pleased that we chose this race over the Rattlesnake race...there were so many factors that made this race a blast! First it was in our home town city! Second, there were faces there that we could pick out of the crowd...we knew a lot of the teams there and... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:27:25 GMT You know that saying, "Rules are made to be broken"? Well, it's true. Not only are they broken but they are modified as time passes. This is only too true for adventure racing. What I've learned is that as time passes special tests will be modified to conform to what is going on in the race. So the instructions you hear may change from minute to minute. At our first stop, The North Face, one team member had to stand on the block w/ their hands in the air while the other tried to throw a hoop/soft Frisbee around them. So a couple of teams got lucky and... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8 http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/6.html Wed, 19 May 2004 21:17:19 GMT Winter was slowly shaking off and my body finally wanted to ride. I’m not a winter person, never have been. I prefer the sweltering heat any day. For the past four months I had to convince myself to get on the bike--and I do mean, “Had to convince.” My friend Joshua had become my best friend on the trail. Since we lived very close to each other, we rode together all the time. Although he did his best to motivate me to ride, I must say, it was an effortless season. The best thing that came out of the winter (in my opinion) was our discovery of urban riding. We improved greatly on our... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Sat, 15 May 2004 01:49:54 GMT so it's been a few days since the race and I've had time to reflect on the kick ass time we had. To say that I was suprised that we were going to have to run the 7mi straight would be an understatement. However, I was not the least bit worried. I towed "Short Arm" (Ben) through these 7 miles and found that towing isn't all that bad. The extra strain on my legs was at times at bit cumbersom but it was all in the interest of the team, so no worries. I've voiced this before and I'll say it again: I believe one of the most valuable, not to mention simple, lessons I learned that day was to... (more) http://teamphatfree.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Tue, 11 May 2004 00:09:18 GMT Well, it's the day after our first adventure race! We finished 16th out of 34 teams in our division (Coed) coming in at a respectable time of 04:14:40 !!! We really want to shout out to our coach Charolette Morris! We're very thankful for all of her help! I'm certain we would have seen "DNF" by our team name instead of 16th, had it not been for her! :) And to my dear friend David Tillman for his help with sports specific weight training and stretching! We're also very thankful for Ben Mckenzie for stepping in as our third teammate, allowing us to enter and participate in the... (more)