Dmitry and Jennifer's adventure race team won the Smartwool Swamp Stomp in Florida. According to the unofficial results,
Team EMS the first four-person coed team.
(Dmitry and Jennifer carry an old tire and a rusty lawnchair as part of the Garbage Contest at the Smartwool Swamp Stomp. No, I don't know what a garbage contest is either???)
The report from Dmitry:
"Dude we won, numero uno. We kicked @$$. We teamed up with another team that had one EMS racer and 3 JEEP team racers and we finished together. They made us paddle like 37 miles which I think was not only painful for me but for most of the others in our team. And then the lack of sleep, popping the caffeine pills and red bull. Bike was really hard for me too but I am happy with how I did on the trail sections. The climbing section was easy and I was able to wing a rappelling part. We went through all kinds of terrain including swamps. There was an easy component to this race which is no hills and we never had to submerge in the water.
When asked if it's common for newbie adventure racers to bring a camera and take pics during the race, Team EMS Captain Jennifer Shultis responded:
"No. But it's also not common for someone who has never rappeled, has mountain biked like once and paddled twice to be luaghing and kicking everyone's a$$ the whole way. Dmitry was a Russian Rockstar out there."
As always, Dmitry takes his racing VERY seriously, stopping here to get detailed coordinates from a large-mouthed bass mailbox.
More photos posted here.
On the snowshoe front, Dave H took on both the Hallockville Pond race on Sunday finishing 8th in the very tough four-mile event and the Merrimack River snowshoe race, taking 4th there on Monday.
OUCH!!! I've seen better running form from brain-damaged monkeys! (Photo courtesy a finished and fully recovered Dave Dunham)
Any other NETT results to share? Email them to Dave H at Ttroll71@aol.com.
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You must have felt like Sisyphus on an iceberg
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