A few weeks back I had the opportunity to see a different side of adventure racing: Support.   I was still recovering from my ITB tendonitis that I developed 8 hours into the Untamed 60-hr race and we needed a good navigator for the Racing Ahead 24-hr race. Team WP recruited long-time racing enemy Steve Reif who has seen great success racing with Team SPTU.  Since I had to make my way through 15 miles of the Jay Marathon the next weekend in order to brainwash my future wife into marrying me I thought it would behoove me to not push my way through 24hours of racing.

Although not my first time supporting (I did solo at one of the AppExtreme races), a few thoughts:

• Where does 24 hours go? I thought I'd be able to work out, sleep, relax, get some sun, eat, and relax some more. But, somehow 24 hours came and went and all I got to do besides the obvious support crew duties was eat, sit in the sun, fall asleep reading 5 pages of a magazine, and sleep in the back of the subi wagon. It was nasty humid and the bugs were crazy so we had to turn the AC on while sleeping in the car or we would wake up sweating.
• Supporting is just not that exciting. (This doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it). Maybe I pictured the various crews getting together to throw a rager but that never happened at this race.
• Someone ordered a pizza to be delivered to one of the TA's. It showed up being delivered by a guy on a tractor. Only in New Hampshire!