Team Ragged Glory – Adventure Racing, Multi Sport, Friends

TRG continues to train for the eight+ hour Indianapolis Adventure Race in September. Doug, Steve, Julie, Bob, will race along with two new team members, Becca Roberts and Yngvar Brynildssen as two teams in the event.

GlobalX Racing did a great job on the first Circle City Sprint Adventure Race. Jerry, Joe and Greg picked up the race after Wild Onion organizers dropped the Indy Wild Scallion from their schedule. The race was hot, fast and fun. We congratulate the winners, Peoples Burn Foundation, who finished right at fiour hours. Urban Warrriors won the 4 person coed, and True North won the three person coed.

Team Ragged Glory raced in the four person coed division and finished at 4:29, fifth in our division and seventh of 32 teams overall. Bob and Julie have changed the level at which we race, increasing not only the speed of TRG but the fun as well. We’ll have a race recap up in a few days.

Julie Nor from Lake Geneva,Wisconsin will race in place of Leslie Shafer for the third installment of Planet Adventure. Leslie found Julie on the Planet Adventure teambuilder site and asked Julie to take her place because of her mounting work, school and personal commitments. Julie works for Young Life and is a marathoner from Taylor University. A friend of mine who knows Julie told me that if he needed a teammate to go far and fast, he’d want Julie. Leslie, we’ll miss you. But we understand. We hope to race with you again. Thanks for finding us a new team member. Welcome, Julie; we’re glad you’re becoming a part of the Team Ragged Glory family. May God bless our third Planet Adventure race.

TRG has been preparing for the Planet Adeventure, the 30 hour race in May. We did the ICO 6 hour ROGAINE (Orienteering Meet) on April 5 and won first in the coed division. Great job team! It was great to see our many AR friends from around Indiana at the event. We hope to see you down at the Hoosier National Forest and at the mini as we all prepare for the race.

TRG races again! We’ve committed to Planet Adventure 2003 .This will be our third shot at our “home course” race and our sixth race as a team. The race is May 31, 2003 and Bob Mueller, our long time friend and crew guy, will finally race with us in the new four-person format. Jeff Minks of TRG-spawn Team MMM will crew for us at PA03. We will race the Wild Scallion replacement Circle City Sprint Adventure Race here in August. There are two other races that are local: the Dino Race in July and the Indianapolis Adventure Race in September. If you are interested in training with us or racing, email me.

TRG was an official finisher of the 2002 Indy Sprint Adventure Race. The weather was great, the course was challenging, and we had a bunch of fun. It was fun seeing everyone; thanks for stopping and saying hello to us. Team MMM! kicked our tails and beat us to the finish line in their maiden voyage. They are awesome! We’ll have details soon on the race and its progression.

Team Ragged Glory continues to prepare for the third annual Indy Sprint Adventure Race on September 14, 2002 at Eagle Creek. TRG will participate in the long course, as will a new team composed of our friends, Team MMM!. Our long-time crew guy, Bob Mueller, will race with Dennette Miller, a friend Leslie and Doug met running the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon this year, and Jeff Minks, one of Doug’s coworkers and a former Purdue 800 meter track guy. Team MMM! has great native athletic ability and should be a very competitive team in their first adventure race.

On Saturday, August 24, TRG and Team MMM! ran a 7-plus hour simulation and had a great time. We also met some new friends, Jeff and John, who travelled with us in hopes of learning something for when they race in Planet Adventure 2003.

We will be posting more pictures from the Wild Onion soon. Stay tuned.

Team Ragged Glory has committed to two races in 2002. We will participate in the Planet Adventure 30 Hour Challenge (planetadventure.homestead.com) in April. We are also entered in the Wild Onion Indy (www.urbanadventureracing.com) in June. We are expanding our team to have more training partners, contingency and race options. Send us an e-mail if you’re interested in playing.