Team Ragged Glory – Adventure Racing, Multi Sport, Friends

Team Ragged Glory is hosting its fifth annual Night Hike on Friday, March 16, 2007 beginning at 10pm. The hike will once again be on the Tecumseh Trail. It will start at Morgan Monroe State Forest Office and end at Yellowwood Lake. If you’re interested in going, give me (Doug Theis) a call at 502.7622 or e-mail me at dtheis@msn.com. We’ll need to coordinate leaving cars at Yellowwood and ferrying people back to Morgan Monroe. www.teamraggedglory.com.

Steve, Nancy and I raced on Saturday September 9 amongst our many Indy friends and finished the Indianapolis Adventure Race at Eagle Creek Park in Indy. We finished in about 7 hours 45 minutes, and landed 20th of 48 teams.

The weather was nearly perfect, and the course was one of the funnest that I have raced. Thanks to Michael and Debbie Sapper and the Indy Rootstock team for volunteering and staging such a fun time.

Check back for a race report soon. It was great to be out on the course again – Doug.

TRG welcomes John McInnes, one of the few racers who has done every Planet Adventure. John joins Steve, Bob, and Nancy for this years race. I (Doug) will be crewing for the new iteraion of the team. John’s lack of internal dialogue (and excess of external dialogue) should make him a perfect fit.

Twelve humans participated in the 20 degree, fourth annual, 2006 TRG Night Hike. Role call included:

TRG Doug Theis
TRG Steve Kincade
TRG Bob Mueller
TRG Nancy Gawrys
TRG Beth Thomas
TRG Friend Scott Gondeck
Temporary Avenue Ron Cornwell
Temporary Avenue Sarah Gibson
Temporary Avenue Jeff Bockelman
Veteran Dick Whicker
Veteran Tony Coulson
Veteran Zach Mitchell

It was cold, clear and fun. Hallucinations were plentiful and frozen water bladders the norm. The Veterans decided on a fast pace while TRG, friend and TA hiked it out. TRG finished the day at BeanBlossom Inn with some Blackberry Cobbler and pork products. Thanks to everyone for showing up. I’ve fallen in lust with trekking poles. They help old (and young) people continue.

Doug

One week from the 4th annual TRG night hike. We’ll hike 28 miles starting Friday night, March 3 at 10pm. If you’re planning on going, please send me an e-mail with:

-Your name
-Who is riding with you
-What you’d like to do with your car: drop at Yellowwood or Morgan Monroe
-If you’re willing to ferry people to the start or back to cars at the end.

Remember, we’re going from Yellowwood to Morgan Monroe.

dtheis@msn.com or 317.502.7622

Thanks,
Doug

TRG’s annual night hike will take place Friday, March 3 starting around 10pm at Yellowwood State Forest in Brown County. The group will hike to Morgan Monroe State Forest office (about 28 miles). Last year it took us about 10.5 hours. Contact me (Doug Theis) at dtheis@msn.com for details. We’d love to have an even bigger group than last year.

TRG will sponsor our fourth night hike again in February or March of 2006. We will finalize the date soon. We hope to have as many folks out as we can; last year’s was great fun. Chances are that we will hike the Tecumseh again.

For those unfamiliar with our night hike, we start around midnight on a Friday or Saturday night and hike into the dawn travelling between 20 and 30 miles. The last two years we’ve done 28 miles in about 11 hours.

Please reply if you’re interested in attending.

Due to multiple schedule conflicts, TRG will not race in the Planet Adventure Urban Sprint. We hope to at least get out on the course cheering everyone on. Good luck to all you urban racers.

TRG’s next mission is the 50k run at Owen Putnam State Forest on November 5, 2005. Steve, Nancy, Doug and possibly Bob plan to crank out the hilly miles in west central Indiana.

The sixth annual Indianapolis Adventure Race again played out in beautiful weather on September 11, 2005. Steve, Nancy, and I (Doug) went slow and steady and ended up in 11th place overall and 9th place in the coed division. I’ll publish a race report soon.