Odyssee Appalachienne 100 Miler Feb 16th

It was a last minute decision to go to Saint Pamphile and run this race. Over the years we had talked about it, but always chose to do Greenville race because it was closer and more practical. When Greenville got cancelled, we decided to drive to Canada and run one team in the 100 mile race. Team was, Wat, Bones, Roland, Kaltag, Dixie, Waylon, Rosa, Nikolai, Yoda, Rimbey, Hinder, and Lumos. Wallace had a sore shoulder, so Nikolai went in his place for this race. This was Nik's first time running a longer race, and he did awesome! He certainly has a bright future. The first 40-50 miles to the checkpoint went pretty fast and it was a nice clean run. Well for the most part, that was up until my sled hit a cement pillar that was hidden in the trail and broke my plastic runner off the sled. I had to run the remaining 30 miles on one runner. But thank a lot for Gino Roussell that helped me fix it and we were able to tape it back on and it held! The last 4-5 miles in Bones was acting a little funny, and sure enough once we got into the checkpoint he had a swollen wrist. He was dropped at the half way point. Wat and Bones led the first leg, and Wat and Roland led the second leg. On the way back we kind of went past one of the turns and had to turn the team around twice, resulting in a little tangle. Once we got that straightened around the rest of the run was pretty uneventful. Team clicked right a long and a nice pace and we finished with a time of 9 hours and 25 minutes, putting us in 7th place out of 10 teams. Here are the full results, http://www.odysseeappalachienne.ca/resultats/2013_100_milles.pdf Also some photos to enjoy of us resting at the halfway point. Next up... Can Am 250!