To all our devoted readers and supporters,
We arrived at Littleton Bike and Fitness this afternoon to a mass of friends, family and a reporter from NHPR who have all been part of our adventure in some way or another and wanted to be the first few to say welcome home. We exchanged hugs and stories for an hour then parted ways until a later date with a more organised method and recap of the previous week.
Now that I lay in a warm bed so firmiliar yet so strange ready for the 12 hour transition from Adventure Racer to Gym Manager...6 Am will come quick and I will surly sleep fast.
Thank you all for your support and know that we are home safe and sound and ready for the next adventure...
Yacky out
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Last days
First of all I want to express my deep graditude and thanks to everyone who has helped us with this journey. Those of you who post comments should know that it brings us great joy to make a connection with you and to know that we are being watched and looked out for.
The past few days have been filled with sleep, cleaning gear, sorting gear, lots of coffee, food and many a things that cannot be expressed in words.
Words cannot describe...
The sight of Jason and Jamie´s feet
The taste of a mocha latte at our favorite local cafe after 10 days in the bog
The smell coming from 6 gears bins full of wet shoes and trekking gear
The smell of an adventure racers lower GI tract thats "working out the kinks" after a lot of drink box
How it feels to walk in sandals
The amout of coffee Jenny can drink when given the chance
What eating 12 chocolate pastries and still being hungry feels like
How you feel when you get your first shower after 10 days without
The texture of one´s feet after 8 days of trench foot
The elation felt after selling you bike for more than you paid for it and reilizing that you now do not have to bring it home
36 hours of sleep in 3 days
Words cannot describe much here...we are all feeling really great. Well rested, well on the road to recovery and ready to come home.
Never have I finished a Race and had so much time before leaving...it feels great to be pressure free but we are all ready to come home and return to as normal of lives that we have.
Thanks again for your support and stay tuned for a photo site and video to be posted with details of all our crazy moments here in The Patagonia.
Yacky flyin safe...
The past few days have been filled with sleep, cleaning gear, sorting gear, lots of coffee, food and many a things that cannot be expressed in words.
Words cannot describe...
The sight of Jason and Jamie´s feet
The taste of a mocha latte at our favorite local cafe after 10 days in the bog
The smell coming from 6 gears bins full of wet shoes and trekking gear
The smell of an adventure racers lower GI tract thats "working out the kinks" after a lot of drink box
How it feels to walk in sandals
The amout of coffee Jenny can drink when given the chance
What eating 12 chocolate pastries and still being hungry feels like
How you feel when you get your first shower after 10 days without
The texture of one´s feet after 8 days of trench foot
The elation felt after selling you bike for more than you paid for it and reilizing that you now do not have to bring it home
36 hours of sleep in 3 days
Words cannot describe much here...we are all feeling really great. Well rested, well on the road to recovery and ready to come home.
Never have I finished a Race and had so much time before leaving...it feels great to be pressure free but we are all ready to come home and return to as normal of lives that we have.
Thanks again for your support and stay tuned for a photo site and video to be posted with details of all our crazy moments here in The Patagonia.
Yacky flyin safe...
Friday, February 22, 2008
A little word from the team
Hey everyone,
Hope all is well in the land of non-confusion...we just got back to Punta Arenas after our epic and man are we in lala land...I got a quick sum up before bed just to give you all a teaser.
130km biking
339km treking...make that 12km on trail the other 326 BUSHWACKING!
0 Km Kayaking
110 km on a schooner
57 km on chilean navy vessel 1
378 km on chilean navy vessel 2
Rounding us out at 469 KM of racing before they stopped the last teams standing and said [this is it you are finished].
Everyone is safe, I took 8 hours of video, we took over 400 pictures, have 10 toenails about to fall off, lots of chilean people think we are the coolest, tons of great stories, and a healthy reminder that the simple things in life we take for granted are very prescious. So, where ever you are take one minute, close your eyes and think of three luxuries you have that many people dont...then take a deep breath and try not to forget them.
We made it! 4th Place overall
Yacky Tired
Hope all is well in the land of non-confusion...we just got back to Punta Arenas after our epic and man are we in lala land...I got a quick sum up before bed just to give you all a teaser.
130km biking
339km treking...make that 12km on trail the other 326 BUSHWACKING!
0 Km Kayaking
110 km on a schooner
57 km on chilean navy vessel 1
378 km on chilean navy vessel 2
Rounding us out at 469 KM of racing before they stopped the last teams standing and said [this is it you are finished].
Everyone is safe, I took 8 hours of video, we took over 400 pictures, have 10 toenails about to fall off, lots of chilean people think we are the coolest, tons of great stories, and a healthy reminder that the simple things in life we take for granted are very prescious. So, where ever you are take one minute, close your eyes and think of three luxuries you have that many people dont...then take a deep breath and try not to forget them.
We made it! 4th Place overall
Yacky Tired
Monday, February 11, 2008
Last pre race update
Hey All
We are just about to recieve our maps and instruction books. Jamie and Jenny are doing the last of the shopping and then we are all meeting back at the HQ for our final gear packing and course plotting. We are all getting into pre-race mode. Jason´s sleepy, jenny´s sick Yacky´s yackin and Jamie´s talking crazy talk.
We´ll be heading out to Teirra Del Fuego in the AM and starting on the bikes (yeehaw) at 12:15 after the ferry ride over to the island.
From now on you´ll be getting race updates from the race organizers and we´ll be hammerin!
Wish us luck and think of the team as we will need all the positive affermations we can get.
We are just about to recieve our maps and instruction books. Jamie and Jenny are doing the last of the shopping and then we are all meeting back at the HQ for our final gear packing and course plotting. We are all getting into pre-race mode. Jason´s sleepy, jenny´s sick Yacky´s yackin and Jamie´s talking crazy talk.
We´ll be heading out to Teirra Del Fuego in the AM and starting on the bikes (yeehaw) at 12:15 after the ferry ride over to the island.
From now on you´ll be getting race updates from the race organizers and we´ll be hammerin!
Wish us luck and think of the team as we will need all the positive affermations we can get.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
We´re on!
Hello all,Well, we werer 5 minutes from getting on a plane to Santiago to find our luggage and it came out of the belt in Punta Arenas...wow that was close...we are now in the midst to a gear explotion.
Stay tuned for one more pre race update and then sit back and watch the magic
Yacky Pumped
Saturday, February 9, 2008
VSF
Ok gang,
We have been in Punta Arenas for two days now, Eating lots of food, walking around getting in some sights, picking up some last minute gear and driving back and forth to the airport trying to find our baggage. So far we are missing Jason´s bike and Everything else that Jamie Jenny and I put on the plane. this constitutes about $30,000 worth of racing gear thats completely MIA. Now the folks at the airport keep saying ´´sure sure, it will come on the next flight´and the race organizers keep saying ´sure sure we´ll take you to the airport and get your stuff just wait a minute´3 hours later we go and yet again no luggage. it wasn´t bad the first night. ók it´s noraml to have stuff gone for a day thats why we come down a couple days early´ but we have a gear check and kayak test tomorrow at 9:30 am and we still have nothing.
Tonight after the offical opening ceremony Jenny and Jamie squeezed into a small truck with a driver and race organizer to head into the airport for a little temper tantrum...
Jamie just walked in... we are screwed! No one knows anything about our gear. There was an urgent message sent out to the airports they may be at but they aren´t even sure we´ll get anything back at all! You know what that means if we try hard we´ll get $100 per bag from the airline in insurance...
Yacky Quite
We have been in Punta Arenas for two days now, Eating lots of food, walking around getting in some sights, picking up some last minute gear and driving back and forth to the airport trying to find our baggage. So far we are missing Jason´s bike and Everything else that Jamie Jenny and I put on the plane. this constitutes about $30,000 worth of racing gear thats completely MIA. Now the folks at the airport keep saying ´´sure sure, it will come on the next flight´and the race organizers keep saying ´sure sure we´ll take you to the airport and get your stuff just wait a minute´3 hours later we go and yet again no luggage. it wasn´t bad the first night. ók it´s noraml to have stuff gone for a day thats why we come down a couple days early´ but we have a gear check and kayak test tomorrow at 9:30 am and we still have nothing.
Tonight after the offical opening ceremony Jenny and Jamie squeezed into a small truck with a driver and race organizer to head into the airport for a little temper tantrum...
Jamie just walked in... we are screwed! No one knows anything about our gear. There was an urgent message sent out to the airports they may be at but they aren´t even sure we´ll get anything back at all! You know what that means if we try hard we´ll get $100 per bag from the airline in insurance...
Yacky Quite
Friday, February 8, 2008
We Made IT
35 hours of traveling and we are here! It´s chilly in Chile and raining...Our gear is lost and hopefully it will arrive tomorrow. All is well updates soon!
Dave and The Team
Dave and The Team
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Last night
Sleepless nights tear at my soul
Waiting planes rumble and roll
I think of things long forgot
I hope and pray it wasn't a lot
Upon my slumber I dream a dream
Of midrace coffee with sugar and cream
Tonight we sleep before our Quest
We'll finish on top as we're the Best
Wish us all good luck, may our feet stay blister free and our additudes full of glee
Yacky Out
Waiting planes rumble and roll
I think of things long forgot
I hope and pray it wasn't a lot
Upon my slumber I dream a dream
Of midrace coffee with sugar and cream
Tonight we sleep before our Quest
We'll finish on top as we're the Best
Wish us all good luck, may our feet stay blister free and our additudes full of glee
Yacky Out
The Pastry Diet
As a Nutritionist I hear about all sorts of gimmicks like “The Grapefruit Diet”, “Organic” and “Weight Watchers”. I’m here to tell you all that this really works!
The Goal: increase your Body Fat by 3% in two weeks before an event so you don’t die in the woods from malnutrition
The Plan:
2 weeks prior to your event begin a calculated regime of 3 pastries a day after the 3rd day increase to 6 pastries. Day 7 is your half way point…if you’re half way to your goal increase to 8 pastries a day. However, if you’re not half way there increase to 12 Pastries a day for 5 days and then 16 on days 13 and 14 to make sure you have adequate build up of LDLs prior to departure.
It’s just that simple.
I've been 13 days and I’m already up 2.7 %
Almost to my goal of 4.8% Body Fat!
So, get out to your local bakery and indulge!
Leaving Tomorrow...going a little mad!
The Goal: increase your Body Fat by 3% in two weeks before an event so you don’t die in the woods from malnutrition
The Plan:
2 weeks prior to your event begin a calculated regime of 3 pastries a day after the 3rd day increase to 6 pastries. Day 7 is your half way point…if you’re half way to your goal increase to 8 pastries a day. However, if you’re not half way there increase to 12 Pastries a day for 5 days and then 16 on days 13 and 14 to make sure you have adequate build up of LDLs prior to departure.
It’s just that simple.
I've been 13 days and I’m already up 2.7 %
Almost to my goal of 4.8% Body Fat!
So, get out to your local bakery and indulge!
Leaving Tomorrow...going a little mad!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
T Minus 4 Days and Counting
Alrighty then...Does anyone really know what the "T Minus 10, 9 , 8" thing means anyway? I don't. One thing I do know is that we've done something everyday to get ready for our trip and the list never seems to get shorter. We finally got all our food squared away, so thats one less thing.
Jamie and I have been out for a couple spins on the new Cannondale 29ers and everytime we are overcome by the realization that we are going to be riding mid season miles on pre season legs in less than a week. "Is it flat in patagonia?"
We've kept up on our gym workouts for the past few months, focusing on lots of multi-joint movments and circuit training. We are physiclly stronger and bigger in the upperbody than ever, Jamie's up 5 lbs and I'm up 8...all in upperbody mass and core strength. This has been an intentional attempt at not sucking so much on the paddles...Hopefully this will work cuz even though there's only 10% paddling in this race we're talking about 50+ miles of intense ocean kayaking.
I am looking forward to getting away from work and kicking the crap out of myself but there's something inside me that's freakin out about the pain and suffering that we are going to go through. Adventure Racing is about enduring more discomfort than anyone should ever have to. We continue to sign up from races regardless of this fact because...well i guess I don't really know why...I guess I summed it all up in our application to Patagonia. When asked "What makes you think your team should be admitted into this race?" My responce was simple...
"We're racers, we race...It's what we do."
-Yacky Out
Jamie and I have been out for a couple spins on the new Cannondale 29ers and everytime we are overcome by the realization that we are going to be riding mid season miles on pre season legs in less than a week. "Is it flat in patagonia?"
We've kept up on our gym workouts for the past few months, focusing on lots of multi-joint movments and circuit training. We are physiclly stronger and bigger in the upperbody than ever, Jamie's up 5 lbs and I'm up 8...all in upperbody mass and core strength. This has been an intentional attempt at not sucking so much on the paddles...Hopefully this will work cuz even though there's only 10% paddling in this race we're talking about 50+ miles of intense ocean kayaking.
I am looking forward to getting away from work and kicking the crap out of myself but there's something inside me that's freakin out about the pain and suffering that we are going to go through. Adventure Racing is about enduring more discomfort than anyone should ever have to. We continue to sign up from races regardless of this fact because...well i guess I don't really know why...I guess I summed it all up in our application to Patagonia. When asked "What makes you think your team should be admitted into this race?" My responce was simple...
"We're racers, we race...It's what we do."
-Yacky Out
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