A few weeks ago we received the sad news that the annual
Planet Adventure 30hr race in Indiana was cancelled for 2013. That race was supposed to be the final event in my
7-weekend racing bender. Then I'd have a weekend off (Memorial Day weekend), and then I'd go to Kansas for my first crack at
DK200. But Planet was not in the stars (ha...) this year for the race organizers, so that left
DINO's MISSION 18hr adventure race as my final hurrah before tackling the Flint Hills. And, honestly...I wasn't all that sad. My body has taken a beating these past 2 months, getting pummeled on the weekends and then spending the weekdays frantically trying to recover. I learned a few great lessons about that process, but overall I knew I was creeping closer and closer to
the bucket and very scared of falling in before my biggest individual race of the year.
Thankfully, MISSION is a super fun race, and I was once again racing with my crazy strong
Alpine Shop teammates, Jeff and David. These guys are just so much fun to race with and I knew they would motivate and inspire me to perform well. In the weeks leading up to the race, we learned that in addition to traditional adventure race disciplines of trekking, mountain biking, paddling, and ropes, we would also have the option to use scooters or roller blades. I borrowed both from local adventure racer Yvonne who used them in several
Wild Onion races. We had a few practice sessions on the 'blades and I was kinda freaked out by them. I can skate just fine (after all, a girl from Minnesota should know these things), but sharp turns were a little tricky and stopping was extremely unreliable. We planned to bring both scooters and blades to the race but then I forgot Yvonne's scooter in my basement, whoops. Thankfully, Jeff had 2 decent
Razor scooters that we brought in addition to David's
badass scooter. Game on.
For anyone aiming to race at
USARA Nationals this October 4th, you should probably know some things about race director Brian's style, since he is directing Nationals this year. First, he likes to not distribute maps until the race starts. Second, he likes to start with a short, crazy prologue before maps are handed out. Third, he likes to base the race around a central TA/HQ, having teams complete loops and then return to HQ between each loop or segment. Fourth, he likes to make teams plot CPs and route plan on the fly. This year's MISSION would be a classic example of a DINO race. Another thing that Brian and DINO are known for is taking excellent care of their racers. Our race fees included on-site lodging Friday and Saturday night, and pre- and post-race meals. This made race logistics really easy for us and we really appreciate it!
PRE-RACE
Jeff, David and I left St. Louis Friday morning and rolled into
Camp Pyoca just minutes before pre-race dinner was scheduled to start. That was enough time to check in, get our race packets (passport, numbers, and shirt) and learn about making duct tape bracelets for
TeamSOG's
Scott Pleban who was
seriously injured after being hit by a car on his bike commute. We grabbed a table and chowed down on delicious lasagna and THE MOST AWESOME brownies I've ever had. Right there, my weekend was a success because of those brownies. Thank you, Camp Pyoca chefs!! We had a quick pre-race meeting after dinner and Brian hinted that the course just might be clearable for a fast team. Boom. There is our carrot we need to chase tomorrow. We spend the rest of the evening prepping gear, interrupted a few times by brief rain showers. Finally we're ready to go and head up to the cabin. Everyone else is asleep already so we do our best to quietly get settled. Turns out, that is all in vain because there are two other people in the cabin who
SNORE almost the whole night. I seriously got about 2 hours sleep total before our 0445 wake-up call. Suboptimal!
My alarm goes off right on time and in order to make my cabin exit as quick and quiet as possible, I grab all of my stuff and head down to the main dining hall to make breakfast and get dressed there. I head into the basement and turn on the lights - accidentally and abruptly waking up three people who were sleeping! I feel really bad and tell them I'll go upstairs, but they are racing the 18hr as well so they would've been up in a few minutes anyway. Then I hear..."
Um, I think I know you. Are you Emily?" That's probably the last thing I ever expected to hear before 0500 on a race morning, but I do acknowledge that my name is in fact Emily and the sleepy questioner turns out to be my twitter friend
Dan! Ha! So it's cool to get to know him and his team,
Dandies Vegan Marshmallows, as we all fumble through pre-race breakfast and clothes prep. And for some reason, my standard breaky tastes weird and gross, which is highly unusual since none of the ingredients are that perishable. But my taste buds tell me something's turned strange, so I sadly dump it out and put together a makeshift replacement breakfast of Ensure, donuts, and fig newtons. At this point, calories are calories.
I join up with Jeff and David at the van for the rest of pre-race prep and for some reason my mind is very foggy. I find myself way behind schedule and scrambling to get all of my gear together before Brian calls a pre-race meeting at 0555. I hustle up to the meeting place with my teammates and we get the first set of instructions: our maps are located on the opposite shore of Lake Pyoca, approximately 250m away, and each team must send one person to go get them. There are two ways to get there: run around the lake, or paddle across it. Except, anyone who chooses to paddle is not allowed to use an actual paddle...they must use their hands and/or feet for propulsion. THE RACE IS ON!!
PROLOGUE ("paddle" or trek)
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Super zoom-in of the map. We started in the triangle. Maps were at "M".
Which way is faster...right, left, or straight? |
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| Can you see the red blinky straight across the lake? That is where Jeff was going. |
We have a quick team conference where I offer to just swim the distance, but after 30 seconds we decide that Jeff will paddle. So we sprint down to the beach and I help him get situated on one of the plastic kayaks that are laying there. The first one we pick is very long and awkward, and Jeff has trouble getting it to move. I see a few other racers using tiny one-person kayaks and I suggest that Jeff use that. He agrees, we switch, and pretty soon he is zooming across Lake Pyoca while the majority of the field runs around on a trail. I stand on the dock yelling encouragement for a while and then return to the van to finish my last few gear prep items. David has got the first set of coordinates from Brian and he tells me we're starting on bikes, so I get my and Jeff's bike stuff ready to go. Jeff returns to TA really quickly, we plot the first 8 CPs, and take off on our bikes.
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| Plotting! |
BIKE 1 (CPs 1-8, 56km)
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| Entire BIKE 1 route. We went counter-clockwise. |
This bike leg has two sections: first we will be on paved roads, and then we will hop onto trails, and then finish up with a short paved return to TA. Almost immediately after leaving Camp Pyoca we are joined by
Rev3/MK and a 2-person male team that I don't recognize. After a few CPs we are also joined by the Silent Chasers, a 2-person male team made up of our friends Phil and Kevin. Phil recently finished 2nd to me and Biz in the
MNOC AR Tune-Up so we know his nav is completely dialed and he will be tough competition today. The lead pack works loosely together in a paceline, and I successfully avoid a near-crash with Cory from Rev3/MK (Jeff and I exclaim our relief with simultaneous, wide-eyed "
Good job!"s). There are a few route choices here and there, but none seem to offer more than 30 seconds advantage either way.
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| We started at the triangle, then biked to CP4... |
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| ...then to CP1, CP2, CP3... |
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| ...then to CP8, CP6, CP7, CP5, and back to HQ. |
After a few hours of roads, we start looking forward to the next section of trails. Rev3/MK blows past a turn to CP8 which puts us in 2nd place (I think the unknown 2p-male team is still leading). We enter the trail system to find it mostly muddy doubletrack, with some sections of gravel. Definitely not as technically challenging as we had hoped, but we make quick work of CP8 and then hop across the road to pick up CPs 6, 7, and 5. The approach to CP6 goes well and we hike the 100m off trail to get to the saddle it's hung on. We get to the saddle, it's very subtle, and there is no CP hanging there. CRAP. This is the situation that all adventure racers have nightmares about - missing CPs. It destroys confidence levels for the entire rest of the race. We thrash around with the 2p-male team and the Silent Chasers, but no luck. Jeff even climbs 12 contour lines up to check a much more topographically obvious saddle, but no dice there either. Very soon, we are joined by several more teams looking for CP6. The lead we had worked hard for has evaporated and we decide to abandon the search and continue to the next CP.
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| See the northbound jeep road after CP6? We didn't. |
We ride a short distance downhill and then bikewhack across the creek to catch the trail on the other side. We find it quickly, but as we're riding it stays low and the map says it is supposed to climb significantly. Uh oh. We have a quick team conference and discover that we are actually on a jeep road instead of the trail that we want. Another CRAP! So we backtrack a little bit and then bikewhack some more uphill to find the marked trail. Now, the thrashing my legs went through at the Tune-Up is put to the test, and I hack through the thorns with gusto while carrying my bike. This is what adventure racing is all about! We
finally reach the correct trail and get to start riding again. It's steep, but we know where we are. As we approach CP7, we pass the mystery 2-person male team, who are stopped on the side of the trail with a broken derailleur. I'm somewhat of an
expert in fixing those, and we offer to help, but they say they've got the tools they need to make it back to HQ. CP7 is fine, and then we start the longish trail ride to CP5.
We're riding along, making the best of the sloppy trail conditions, when we comment on the machine tracks that are everywhere. It seems like there's a logging operation going on. Soon, we see Phil and Kevin up ahead, except they are riding back towards us. What?? That's strange. They stop, we stop, and Phil and David put their heads together to talk about the map. Turns out we missed the trail we need and instead we're on an unmapped logging road. This is sort of bad, but it could have been much much worse if Phil hadn't stopped to tell us. We follow the Silent Chasers back along the road and together we find the correct trail we need for CP5. It's cut almost straight down at least 20 contour lines. I'm riding completely behind my saddle and I think I can smell my brake pads. Eeeeeeeeeeek!!! But we all make it safely to the bottom, and to CP5. Then we have a slight route choice back to camp...the Silent Chasers go right, we go left. Which will be faster? Ours is a screaming paved descent that almost shoots me off the side of a cliff. Who said Indiana was flat??
We roll back into the main TA at Camp Pyoca, about 45-60 minutes later than we thought we would, only a minute or two behind the Silent Chasers. We collect the UTMs for the next segment and Brian issues us a caveat...CP10 is not open yet. It is the ropes course, and we are instructed to visit it when we get back to TA in about, oh, 4-5 hours. This is a concern for us because ropes courses, while extremely fun, can be a huge bottleneck in an AR. Right at this moment, if the ropes were open, there would be a short-to-nonexistent line because we are in the lead pack. Who knows what the line will be like when we get back to camp! But, we have no choice so we plot the next CPs and learn that we can use our wheeled-objects-of-choice to get there. The camp road has me scared to use 'blades (hilly and very few places to bail) so we decide to use scooters. Get ready for hilarity!!
WHEELED OBJECTS 1 (CP 11, 6k)
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| Now I'm using pink highlighter to show our route from HQ to CP11. |
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| Nerd alert!!! |
We grab out scooters (2 Razors and 1 Xootr) and run with them out of TA on the hilly camp road. We pass Silent Chasers sitting on the grass putting on their 'blades, and Rev3/MK is already blading a short distance ahead of us. We catch up with them at the main road, and then are able to pass them as we move through town. We are grinning about the choice of scooters here - the road is bone-jarring chip-n-seal and the scooters are clearly faster. I start on a Razor but David soon switches with me since the Xootr is way faster. There is a 6" strip of smooth pavement on the edge of the road and we all use that to our advantage - something we would have been unable to do on 'blades. I can only imagine what a spectacle this is for the town of Brownstown (pop. 2,986). Adults. In spandex. With bike helmets. On scooters. Oh lordy. Nerd alert!!!
PADDLE 1A (2.5k up + 5k down)
+ WHEELED OBJECTS 2 (CP13, 3k)
+ PADDLE 1B (CP14, 10k down)
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| Love those banana boats! |
We scooter into the next CP in 1st place and are given more CPs to plot for the paddle. We have to paddle upstream first, which looks like a big challenge since the East Fork White River is high and the water looks fast. So we pile ourselves, packs, and scooters into the plastic banana boat and get to work. Silent Chasers and Rev3/MK are close behind! The great thing about this upstream paddle is that it's almost exactly like paddling upstream on the Meramec, a place where Jeff and David have practiced hundreds of times (me only once). Jeff is an expert at hiding from the current and he takes an extremely efficient route to CP12 located 2.5k upstream. We quickly punch and turn around for the next section, a 5k downstream paddle to an intermediate take-out for CP13. We see Silent Chasers and Rev3/MK on the water and they all look strong. We have to hustle!! Water is flying everywhere since all three of us have kayak paddles and pretty soon I'm soaked. It's also cloudy and a bit cold. David is feeling the chill here too so we let him take a break to put on a jacket. I'm elated to see the intermediate take-out because that means we have a 3k out-n-back scootering leg to jump-start the circulation and eat something. The take-out is on a slippery "beach" but Jeff and David manhandle the boat while I put on a jacket and get the scooters ready to go. We make our way up to the road and pretty soon I stop shivering.
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| CP11, CP12, then take out at the arrow, scooter to CP13, scooter back to the boats, paddle to CP14. |
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| We scootered into Fort Vallonia. I wonder what the early settlers would have thought of that? |
The road condition here is way better than the first one and we make good time to
Fort Vallonia (side note: At Fort Vallonia Days, you have the exciting opportunity to eat
donkey bellies. Who knew?). We find the punch, share a Reese's Crispy Crunchy bar, and then scooter back to our boat. As we're returning to our plastic banana, we see another boat parked next to it. But no racers. We are completely mystified since CP13 is a direct out-n-back and we saw NO ONE. What is going on?!? But there's no time to speculate since we have another 10k of downstream paddling to complete. Rev3/MK approaches the take-out just as we are leaving, keeping the pressure on high. The rest of the paddle goes smoothly, now that we're a little warmer. Brian warned us of several river blockages that were broken up by the recent flooding, so we play a game of "Is
this the blockage? Is
this it? Oh, this one's
definitely it." to pass the time. Very soon, we see a covered bridge up ahead, which signals the end of this paddle section and time for more scootering!!
WHEELED OBJECTS 3 (CP15, 6.5k)
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| Take-out at CP14, then scooter to CP15. |
There are some race photographers at the take-out and they, like most of the people who've encountered the race, think it's hilarious to see us scootering out of TA. We are laughing at ourselves too, but honestly the scooters (especially the Xootr) have won us over as a rather efficient way to travel. And pleasant, even. SO much less stressful than the 'blades. For this final 6.5k section, the road is in great shape and is mostly flat. We try to sail along as efficiently as possible, swapping scooters here and there to give everyone a break. Pretty soon we are rolling into CP15, a manned CP and TA where we are given our next set of instructions and UTMs.
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| Let us scooter into the light! |
TREK 1 (CPs 16-25, 14km redline, 17km actual route)
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| Entire TREK 1, starting at CP15 and finishing back at Camp Pyoca (upper right corner). |
We have 10 trekking CPs to plot, and we are absolutely chomping at the bit to start trekking. It feels like late in the race to start the actual navigation, and we're excited to play to our strength in the woods. We chow down on Wheat Thins Sticks and pepperoni as we carefully plot our course. Right as we're finishing up, the Silent Chasers coolly 'blade into the parking lot, putting the pressure on us once again. We skedaddle out of there, taking a creative route across the spillway and into the woods of
Jackson-Washington State Forest.
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| First part of TREK 1. |
The CP locations on this trekking leg are scary. Sure, there is a ton of relief in this area, but Brian has placed the CPs on minor features that are similar to a
Red- or Blue-level orienteering course. We carefully attack CP16 as a team, meticulously counting paces and reentrants, then finally fanning out when we get "in the circle" to be sure we spot the punch. We almost needn't have worried - David has brought us exactly to the correct spot and we punch with ease. The next CP is equally as tough, and here we discover the quirkiness of the map. It seems that the big features are not all mapped equally - only some of the large reentrants are showing up, while some others of similar size are completely unmapped. This is very difficult to deal with because we can't predict with certainty which features we can use for navigation. David's compass suddenly becomes extremely important. Somewhat shaken by this new and unpleasant discovery, we attack CP18 too early and have to fabricate an around-route to get to the correct spot. But the correction is simple and soon we are back on track.
After we punch CP18, my stomach is growling but I discover that both of the hip pockets on my pack are empty. I swing my pack around to my front and check the main compartment while still trekking. Only my
mandatory gear is in there. I am officially out of calories. How embarrassing!
Um....guys? Do you have any extra food? Yes, yes they do. Jeff and David stock me up for the rest of the trek with mini Almond Joys, Wheat Thins Sticks, Clif gels, and pepperoni. With a delightfully full belly, we attack CP19 and then run on the same road as this morning to CP20.
For some strange reason, CP20 is tricky for us. We canvass the area and are not finding the reentrant we want. As we are searching, the Silent Chasers live up to their name and show up like AR ninjas right behind us. I keep an eye on them as they proceed to march straight into the CP. Phil tips me off that they've indeed found it and I call over to Jeff and David. We punch CP20, and now we are chasing the Silent
Chasers Leaders. Getting passed really lights a fire in my belly and my strongest instinct is to hurry up and catch them. Jeff and David rein me in and we stick to our own pace up a super steep hill. We stick to our own game plan for CPs 21 and 22, where Jeff climbs the fire tower only to not find the punch. Another missing one? We are in disbelief, but the public location of a fire tower is prime territory for punch theft so we memorize some graffiti to prove we were there and continue on. CPs 23 and 24 go well, and then we take a
super safe route to CP25 because it's located in extremely subtle terrain. As usual, David works his map whispering magic and we hike straight into it. Well done Mr. Frei!!
We run back to Camp Pyoca, certain that the Silent Chasers now have a healthy lead, and for that matter Rev3/MK might be ahead of us too. We get our passport punched at the scoring table and they tell us we're in first. WHAT??! Crazy, but also incredibly motivating this far into the race. We get our next set of bike UTMs and instructions, and now it's time for ropes!
ROPES 1 (CP10)
There is some confusion amongst the race and camp staff about whether or not the ropes course is open. We explain our situation, and after some debate, we finally determine that the course IS OPEN, and we need to do that before hitting the next biking leg. We decide to plot the biking points we have, complete the TA, and then hit the ropes course on our way out onto BIKE 2. We fly through transition without seeing Silent Chasers or Rev3/MK. This is a good sign! As we ride over to the ropes, there isn't a staff member in sight. We have a slight panic attack that we got bad information earlier, so we start hollering "
Hello? Hello? Anyone here?" Turns out the ropes course we are doing is hidden a little ways back in the forest, and the camp staff are indeed there eagerly awaiting our arrival. And best of all...no lines! Sweet! We throw on our safety gear (harnesses, helmets, lobster claws) and it takes me back to my days of working the
high ropes course at
TPOC - I love this stuff! David starts first with the 30' tubular cargo net climb, then me, then Jeff. I'm halfway up the net when I hear hollering from the camp staff - apparently David is taking a highly unconventional approach to the first element. It's hard to explain. I really wish I had pictures of this. You'll have to check back later, hopefully DINO posts them!!
David absolutely FLIES through each element, I think there are at least 10. He's through the final zipline before I'm even halfway done, and below us I see Silent Chasers and Rev3/MK have arrived. The race is ON! I get stuck on the swings element - I lose momentum in the middle and can't reach the next swing. Jeff has to swing over to me and give me a kick so I can grab it. Thanks, teammate! I finally make it through the course and we high-tail it out of there as it starts to rain, with 2nd and 3rd place breathing down our necks.
BIKE 2 (CPs 27-29, 22km)
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| Entire BIKE 2 loop. We went clockwise. |
We hit the road on a mission to keep the lead at MISSION. The sun is starting to set, and it has just started raining. We're doing our best to stay in a paceline even with water flying everywhere. We choose a clockwise route that is mostly paved to start, and then will finish with a gravel jeep road back into TA. The first two CPs are on bridges and we have a little trouble spotting the marker. Each one only takes a minute or so to locate but at this point in the race, every second counts. The rain lets up before the second bridge and a beautiful rainbow emerges - what a great omen! As we're on the way to CP27 (gate), David starts looking at the map more closely and proposes a paved around-route back to TA instead of our initially-planned gravel road. We discuss this, doing some quick mental calculations (stay in school kids!!) and decide to take the pavement after punching CP27. We pass Silent Chasers (with much whooping and hollering) who are going the opposite way as us and guess that we have about a 15-minute lead. We're firing on all cylinders as we race back to TA for more instructions. Once we arrive there, we find out we are still in the lead and there's only one more segment left - a 4-point trek. Bring it on! We transition super fast and race out of TA before spotting anyone else. This is starting to look good!
TREK 2 (CPs 31-34, 7.5km redline, 9.5km our route)
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| TREK 3, the final one! We DID NOT revisit CP25 here...went 34, 33, 32, 31. |
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| In transition before the final trek! |
As the sun is disappearing over the horizon, we're jogging out of Camp Pyoca for the last time. We take the roads down to Jackson-Washington State Forest and attack what David thinks is the hardest CP of the entire race - CP34. It's located on a large spur that is flanked by other, similarly-oriented large spurs. Choose the wrong one, and it will mean a lot of additional climb and time to fix. We carefully make our way through the woods to the creek at the base of the spur line. David consults the map, and we start climbing. And climbing, and climbing, and...there is the CP. Boom. Right where it is supposed to be. Buoyed by David's success, we strike off in pursuit of CP33, located on one of the only named peaks on the map..."Pinnacle". When we were plotting this back in TA, we all let out a huge "
whoa" when we saw this CP. It's a hill that means business.
Fortunately, we discover an unmapped jeep trail following the ridgeline we need. It helps us make great time and keeps the nav simple now that the sun has set and we've switched on our headlamps. As we're jogging along the jeep trail, we see a set of headlamps up ahead. Could this be the Chasers or Rev3/MK?? We nervously approach them and it turns out to be Madcap Racing, a coed team who had massive bike mechanicals earlier today so they're on the trek for fun. So awesome! We chat with them for a little bit and learn that Ashley
sang the National Anthem at
LBL...this girl's got pipes! After exchanging nav tips and "
good luck"s, we jog up the trail and straight into CP33. Despite our elevation, there's not much to see from Pinnacle since everything's dark. We set off in search of CP32 which turns out to be very tricky. We exceed our pace count but David's good nav sense keeps us going for a few extra meters, and suddenly, we are staring at the CP. Only one more CP left, it's really close to camp, we haven't seen any other teams, and we have plenty of time before the midnight final cutoff. Things are looking good.
The trekking to CP31 is tough. The area is full of undergrowth, thorns, and deadfall, and we are making extremely slow progress. It's hard to judge our progress on the map since the features in this area are all very small and similar. Eventually, we lose track of our spot on the map and hold a quick team conference to come up with a relocation plan.. Throughout this entire trek, we've been listening to the stock car races from nearby
Brownstown Speedway (shown on the map as "County Fairgrounds"). As we study the map, we notice that the track is almost directly in line with CP31, so we decide to follow the sounds of the racecars through the woods until we hit either the lake or the road. We are all in agreement and not 500m after we start moving again, streetlights come into view and we are able to relocate ourselves definitively on the camp road (orange highlight in the picture). From there, it's a quick jog over to CP31's spur, but once we're there, we can't spot the CP. Madcap Racing (the team we met in the woods earlier) told us they got CP31, so we know it's here somewhere, but it's extremely nervewracking to search for it. Jeff suddenly starts sprinting away from me and David, hollering that he found it, but then stops when he thinks he just saw a weird leaf reflection (these things happen in the woods with bright headlamps). But just to be thorough, he scans the area a bit more and PING!!! CP31!!!!!! We are all very relieved and happy, it's just a short run back to the road and then into the finish line.
As we approach the scoring table, we spot Rev3/MK already inside, relaxing on folding chairs. Our stomachs flip over. Rev3/MK must have had a superb trek to overcome our time advantage, so we head inside to congratulate them. As we enter the doorway, we hear cheers and shouts instead. "
Here come the winners!" says Brian the Race Director. What? We won? We find out Rev3/MK returned to TA without all of the final trekking CPs, so if our passport passes inspection, we've won. We wait a few tense minutes and are then, after 17 hours and 10 minutes of racing, are confirmed the
winners of the 2013 MISSION 18hr Adventure Race. Huzzah!
POST-RACE (17:10 total time, 35 CPs - cleared the course)
We are really, really happy to come away with the win here at MISSION. We wait for Silent Chasers to come in and hear their struggle with the nighttime navigation. Phil and Kevin helped us SO MUCH on the course, it's heartbreaking to hear that the good karma they shared didn't come back to them at night. Rev3/MK also pushed the pace all day and it's fun to share stories with them. Best of all, Camp Pyoca has SHOWERS in the same building as the scoring table. And they are HOT. After cleaning up, all we have to do is go upstairs and the buffet line is full of my absolute favorite post-race food...BAKED POTATOES!!!!! I am in total heaven. We are able to catch up with our new friends from
Dandies Vegan Marshmallows who won their division and were 5th overall. Awesome job guys!! I guess that me waking them up early didn't hurt one bit.
We are especially thrilled to win this race because it means
Alpine Shop's ticket is punched to
USARA Nationals in October. This is always a goal for the team and it's great to have accomplished it early in the season. Thanks again to the folks at Alpine Shop for their awesome sponsorship of the team - we couldn't do it without you! Thanks to Brian and his
DINO staff for a fun and challenging race with plenty of variety - I've never scootered in an adventure race before and I'm sure the entire town of Brownstown is also thanking you for the spectacle. And thanks to Jeff and David for being the special teammates that they always are - helping me out with calories, towing, and entertainment all day long.
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