An excerpt from the Spread Your Wings AR forum May 29, 2008
Posted by riverbrady in : Adventure Racing, Quotes , 1 comment so farThis follows on my experience, and is one of the reasons the weekend was so great.
“There’s something succinctly different about adventure racers. Crazy, yes. Disciplined, sure. But they are the most optimistic, good humored people in the world as a whole. Sure, there’s one or two who are way too intense, but most, nearly all of them are just incredible people. In so many ways. It’s amazing to watch a team come in to the T.A. at 2 am, wet, muddy, beat up from the day, exhausted, ending leg 5, handed leg 6 clue sheet, knowing there’s another 4 to go, and they’ll joke about the time, the event, the checkpoint in the dark cave, but they don’t complain, there’s no whining, no bitching. And they often leave T.A. telling me “thank you” and each other, “Okay, let’s get after it!” Even if they are down a team member, even with a broken bike, blood on their knees, they leave with as much of a smile as their face muscles can muster up. It’s indicative of their inner spirit and strength. I always leave these weekends very uplifted and humbled in my daily doings.”