Team Ragged Glory – Adventure Racing, Multi Sport, Friends

Mike Skirvin was kind enough to take pictures for the 2010 Indianapolis Adventure Race. The pictures are at the Knobstone site on smug mug. You’ll find them here. Nice work as always, Mike.

We had an awesome day! Team Ragged Glory raced fast on a beautiful day and an excellent course layout. Kudos to Jay Newlin and Monty Wilson again for killer course design and execution!

Sadly, although we finished in the top fivetimes , we completely skipped a checkpoint, moving us down in the final standings. But we’re proud of the way we kept moving and executing! Nice job Nancy and Jeff!

Here are the Team Ragged Glory photos that Brightroom and a few other people shot at the 2010 Muddy Buddy Nashville.

Congratulations to Bob Mueller and Julie Nor for taking first in their division finishing ninth overall in a field of 520 teams.

Steve Kincade and I took first in our division as well.

The picture of Nancy Gawrys and Maddie Gawrys-Strand crossing the finish line is awesome.

Last weekend, six members of Team Ragged Glory packed up and headed to Nashville, Tennessee to give the Columbia Muddy Buddy race a try. The windshield time with TRG, the race itself, our hosts and their hospitality made for a super fun weekend.

Here’s a shaky pre-race interview with Julie Nor and Steve Kincade:

The Muddy Buddy is a “ride and tie” style race: two people, one bike, and four transition areas where the racers navigate an obstacle (high wall, balance beam, rope climb, and low crawl) and switch from mountain biking to running. At the end of the race, teammates must crawl together through a mud pit to cross the finish line together.

The race was fast, the course was hilly, the mud was spectacular, and the event was extremely well managed. Hats off to the Muddy Buddy operations people and all the volunteers.

Here’s a YouTube video of the mud pit:

Bob Mueller and Julie Nor took first in their division: coed 76-85 (the sum of their ages) in 53 minutes flat. They were the ninth overall finishers and the second coed team to cross the finish line. Click on the picture of Bob and Julie for more photos.

Steve Kincade and I (Doug Theis) took first in our division: male 96 and over with a 1:02:53 finish.

Our host Andy Gullahorn and his teammate Mark Deering (The Captain and Tennille) took 16th in their division: male 56-65 with a 1:04:56 finish.

Nancy Gawrys and Maddie Gawrys-Strand took eighth in their division: female 66-75 with a 1:13:50 finish.

Results are here.

Cool memories: Driving down in the rain, the ticket that Nancy got on the way to the park, seeing fellow Indy AR guy Greg Grossart before the race, the downhill mud slide in the second leg of the race, the Gullahorns’ amazing property, and fish tacos with awesome conversation in the afternoon.

I told our host Jill that Team Ragged Glory is “one big love.” Thanks to the Gullahorns and all the members of TRG for a fun weekend.

Here are the race photos of the 2010 Planet Adventure Sprint Race.

Brookville Lake was calm and beautiful. The rain held off for the six hour course, but the twelve hour racers got a good dose of wind along with rain towards the end of the day.

Nancy Gawrys, Eric Henricks and I (Doug Theis) won the six hour course with 10 controls in the orienteering section.

This was a fun race that favored good navigators. It included two separate orienteering sections, a rappel off the Eagle Creek dam, and plenty of bike.

Team Ragged Glory placed fourth out of 51 teams in the 2009 Indianapolis Adventure Race. This was my (Doug Theis) ninth consecutive Indy AR.

TRG fielded two teams this year in the most non-urban urban sprint race.

Maddie raced with Steve and Nancy.

Great traverse photos.

Jeff Boxell and Joe Madren, by brothers-in-law, raced again. Now it’s a tradition.

Julie Nor, Steve and I raced this one together.

Amazing rock structures on the huge land nav section. Evil placement of controls.

Traverse over Fuzzy Hole was cool.

It was great racing with Julie again.

First time for me as primary navigator in the woods. We did well on a super cool course at Starve Hollow.

The paddle on the lake was peaceful. The bike trails were confusion. Remember an odometer.

We had to find each others shoes at the beginning. That’s pretty funny.

The first edition of this race was rained out in June by heavy flooding. The redux was held in October in the Cagle’s Mill area of Lake Cataract.

This is beautiful ground.

Wasatch Lake was memorable. What a peaceful place.

Thanks to Bob for dragging me on this one.