Musing and Errata on the world of Adventure Racing from the Yak
presented by MPGear.com

20 is how many hours I spent in the car driving to beautiful Spring Hill, Florida to cover the 2005 Swamp Stomp. 1,100 is how many miles I covered round trip. 5,000 is the number of dollars worth of the computer and camera gear that some a@#hole stole out of my car while I was taking pictures at the Weeki Watchi Wilderness area.

All in all not a great weekend. I shot the start and a few hours of the first trekking leg, unloaded the pics to my laptop and drove to the river. I packed up my gear and hiked maybe a half mile down to the water and shot for about 3 more hours. When I returned to my car it had been cleaned out.

While frustrating these things do happen. God willing my gear will be replaced by insurance. Unfortunately that won't make up for not being able to bring home a couple thousand pictures of such a well run and competitive race through such a unique and beautiful landscape.

The 6 or so hours of the race I did manage to follow could not have been managed more professionally or come off any better than it did. Kudos to Kip, Jessica and Shawn along with the entire WeCeFar crew for making it happen.

I've got some pics that were actually on the memory card in my camera. I should have those uploaded tonight. As for the race the only info I've got so far are the top three finishers.

Congrats to:

1. Mighty Dogs
2. Tally Ho
3. ASM