Gold Rush 24 hour Challenge Redux

A year ago this weekend I raced in my first 24-hour adventure race, the Gold Rush 24 Hour Challenge. I wrote about it in great and boring detail here, and one of the things I wrote was "it was UNBELIEVABLY fun and i fully plan to win one at some point."

Last weekend my team and I won this year's edition of the race. I'll write a full report later, but here are a few random items from the race.

• The race started at 8:00 a.m. and it rained from 8:00 that evening to 8:00 the next morning


• We got lost 3 times


• I crashed my bike twice


• The second running section took us 9 hours and was gorgeous


• Checkpoint 1 was in the wrong place (everyone found it)


• Checkpoint 16b was in the wrong place (no one found it)


• Out of the 21 teams who started the race only 2 finished the whole course and only 3 crossed the finish line


• We won by less than 20 minutes


• We saw a deer swimming across the lake while we were kayaking


• It took us 27 hours

What I ate:

• 7 Dole fruit cups


• 1 can of Campbell's chicken Noodle soup


• 2 cheese and butter sandwiches


• 1 PBJ


• 8 small boiled potatoes with salt


• 3 Lara bars


• 1/2 a Clif bar


• 4 packages of Clif Bloks


• 3 Pringles Snack Packs (regular flavor)


• 1 Twix


• 1 Starbucks Frappacinno (the kind in the bottle)


• 1 can of Pepsi


• 2 slices of pizza


• Approx. 5 liters of water


• 40 oz. of Conquest


• 1 cup of hot chocolate

Edit: full report is here