Upstate Adventure Race
presented by Inov-8

Dinner will be served from 5:30 - 7:00

UPDATE: Change of plans. We WILL be providing pizza at the finish!!!

Unfortunately, given our budget, we're not going to be able to provide food after the race...HOWEVER...there is a GREAT option for eating at/near the Finish that will satiate your monstrous hunger for less than $10 a belly. Sorry to have to flip flop on this one perk, but of all the cuts we could make this is most...palatable. Please be sure you've got some coinage handy when the time comes.

All staff and volunteers will be sporting the official race shirt from Zorrel (the same we're providing to all racers), hats from Inov-8 and cushioned Merrino Wool socks from Darn Tough.

We've got a couple teams working to pull a squad together and we just had another team register last night. We're up to 25 teams and we'd love to get a few more. You've still got two and half days to get registered.

A mighty thanks to Cathi Cannon, our resident design guru, for whipping up a sexy version of the pretty crappy frankenlogo I put together for the race a few months ago.

Here's what you'll be seeing on the front of your race shirts:

We've got 20 teams registered of which 9 have submitted payment.

There are 7 days left to register and submit payment in full.

If I have not received payment by close of registration on September 30th I have to drop your team.

If your team has not submitted payment, visit the Teams tab on the official race page and click on the "Pending" link under "Registration Status" for information on sending a check or paying online.

If you have questions please send an email to race at checkpointzero dot com or call 864-325-1181.

If you need to cancel your unpaid registration please contact me.

Teams competing in the Upstate Adventure Race will be issued tear-resistant, waterproof course maps provided by Checkpoint Zero's official mapping partner, MyTopo.com.

We used MyTopo's exceptional maps for both the 2007 and 2008 editions of the Checkpoint Zero Adventure Race and our racers loved them. The high resolution, bright colors and sharp contrast make it easy to see the exceptional detail provided by the US Geological Survey 7.5' quadrangle data on which all MyTopo maps are based.

Because MyTopo's maps are "custom centered", we're able to fit the entire course on a single map. Seeing the entire course laid out in front of you makes plotting points and choosing routes before the race more straightforward and juggling maps less of a hassle while navigating during the race (given some crafty scissor work and creative folding ahead of time).

The benefits MyTopo maps provide the racers on the ground is clear, but what about fans watching the race from home on our SPOT-based GPS tracking map at CheckpointTracker.com?

Wouldn't it be great if the custom Google Maps application we built to display Checkpoints, Transition Areas and the near real-time position of each team, were able to display the exact same map the teams are carrying?

Yes it would...and it does!

Thanks to a recent upgrade to their online mapping tools, we're now able to integrate the very same data MyTopo uses to print our official race maps right into our online GPS Tracking map.

In addition to the standard Map, Satellite, Hybird, Terrain and Google Earth buttons you're used to seeing at the top right corner of most Google Maps, we've added a MyTopo button. Click it and presto...you're looking at the exact same map the racers are carrying.

We're thrilled to have the support of MyTopo so that we can continue to provide our racers the best quality maps on the market today and we're very excited to be working with them as we continue to refine the affordable, innovative race tracking features of Checkpoint Tracker.

We'll have extra course maps for sale at Check In on Friday (with free copies of the passport instructions including UTM coordinates) for fans that want to join in the fun and racers that want a fresh map for posterity.