What's Your Most Unique Race (Page 2)

I have not done this yet because I am a lousy skater, but someday - the Winterlude Triathlon - 8 km skate, 5 km ski, 5 km run

http://www.winterludetriathlon.ca/

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My favorite race so far was the Harbor Springs Coastal Crawl in Harbor Springs, MI.  You can pick between doing either the 1, 2 or 3 mile open water swim in Lake Michigan. 

This year, the 3 mile race was cancelled due to rough waters...so I did the 2 miler.  What a beautiful town, clean and clear water and tons of support from the locals on their big boats.  I had a blast and can't wait to do it agian next year.

They also have a 10K OWS race the day before...but I'm a ways away from being able to do something crazy like that!

Wild west relay with 6 people on Friday through Sat.  200 miles total, each runner ran 34.6 milesish, then On sunday I did the 5430 long course in 5:20.  We won the wild west relay and were 3rd overall only having 2x12 man teams beating us.

Toughest weekend I have done.

One of my favorite topics!  This year I was lucky enough to do these:

Ragnar Relay - Great River in Wisconsin and Minnesota (HARD, grueling runs and super tiring with very little sleep)

Burrito Union 5 & 10 Hour tri - I did the 5 hour, you string together as many sprint tris as you can before the cutoff.  Putting on the wet suit for all but the first swim was... a challenge.  And the lake was cold enough that you really needed it.  Technical trail run, too.

Living History Farms 7 mile cross-country run in Des Moines, IA.  Described as a "very technical cross country run with 8 creek crossing".  You get the idea.  We were a little dirty at the end   Probably the "funnest" race I did all year.

oh I just made a list of all the races I want to do...Muddy Buddy and the Naked 5k and Krispy kreme challenge are all on the list!

Escape frorm Alcatraz was the coolest "regular" tri.  My other favorite race I've done is a ride and tie.  1 horse, and 2 riders/runners.  If you're not running, you're riding.  The horse has to go the whole way. We only did the 20 miler, and that took us 4.5 hours.  A LOT of fun.

Me riding above, and then running.  The trails were beautiful!

oh I just made a list of all the races I want to do...Muddy Buddy and the Naked 5k and Krispy kreme challenge are all on the list!

Escape frorm Alcatraz was the coolest "regular" tri.  My other favorite race I've done is a ride and tie.  1 horse, and 2 riders/runners.  If you're not running, you're riding.  The horse has to go the whole way. We only did the 20 miler, and that took us 4.5 hours.  A LOT of fun.

Me riding above, and then running.  The trails were beautiful!

Probably the James River Scramble (http://www.sportsbackers.org/events/riverrock/scramble.htm), a 10k in Richmond that is based on the Richmond Xterra run leg. As I recall, in addition to single track trails, hand-over-hand climbing some very steep stairs, scrabbing up rip rap under a bridge, and hopping over railroad ties, we spent a good deal of time sloshing from rock to rock through the river. By the time I went through, the rocks were extra slippery from the fast runners' muddy shoes, and one rock was so tall I couldn't climb up it, so had to navigate around it to get back on the course. The river was low the year I did it. I can't imagine what it's like if there's been a lot of rain.

When I finished, I was completely covered in mud. They had a hose so you could clean off. Food and entertainment were great. A fun, fun race.