The EDGE Results

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

A secial thanks to Hibernia County Park, PA Fish and Boat Commission, Wagontown Fire Company, Martins Corner Amublance,
REI, Trail Creek Outfitters, Hammer Nutrition, Bicyling Magazine, ROAD ID.

TEAM #	CATEGORY	NAME	TIME	POINTS	PLACE
1	Coed/3	Human Zoom/Pabst Blue Ribbon	5:37:48	310	4
2	Coed/3	Tryad Personal Training	4:51:46	510	2
3	Coed/3	ARMD	3:39:53	510	1
4	Coed/3	Fight da Power	5:01:36	510	3

Having produced 5 years of adventure races, the race directors were excited about the 2008 race finale--The GOALS ARA Championship! Guest course designer, Jonathan Neely (aka Dr. Evil) put together a great course for all.

The GOALS ARA championship was open to coed teams of 3 who had placed in the top 10 in 2 previous 2008 GOALS ARA races. Five teams met this criteria, and 4 teams took up the challenge of the championship. The teams had up to 6 hours to complete the rogaine style course. The opening event started out with a team challenge of the good old fashion wheel barrel race with their teams. When they completed that challenge they receive their race passports. Then they were off to the canoe section. About a 1/2 mile run later they arrived at the lake to find all their boats had been submerged! Ah that Dr Evil! Bailers in hand, the teams dredged out their canoes and hit the lake hard.

After the canoe section the 4 teams split up in different directions; bike, foot, or team challenges. The foot section had a memorable addition of a memory 'O'. At foot checkpoint # 6 the team maps were taken away, and they had to navigate to 4 foot checkpoints by memory. This section had the highest points of the race- 50 pts each.

Team challenges included an obstacle course with cargo net, high wire, low crawl, and buddy carry.

The race ended in smiles, pasta salad, and our world famous meatball sandwiches. Congratulations to all who raced!

A special thanks goes out to our volunteers who worked tirelessly throughout the weekend!

Thank you to our great sponsors, especially REI and Trail Creek Outfitters. Each race team received a race bag worth $175 with Hammer Nutrition and Zanfel Products. In addition the 2nd and 3rd place winners received packs compliments of Trail Creek Outfitters and the North Face. 1st place winners received North Face vests embroidered with the GOALS logo--we hope you wear them proudly!

October 19, 2008