Women's Adventure Race in Phoenix
Georgie Sevcov Team Red Energy / 22.11.2005
Lord, please warm this place – especially that water! – up soon…So began my own silent prayer the morning of November 12th – I believed I was doing my own team and all the others a great service by doing so…
And so began that morning of the Women’s Adventure Race – Phoenix Style! Ah yes, we very spoiled desert dwellers worried about that “chill†of expected temps in the low eighties that day. Did I mention we’re talkin’ November here?! Hey, who knew we were going to be really spoiled by much that the race itself had to offer?!
The race started with about sixty women prepping near Saguaro Lake’s Butcher Jones Beach. Most of us were aware of the obvious: the water lapping on one side, and rolling dirt hills and sand washes on the other – the start/finish and TA smack dab in the middle. I read in SWEAT magazine that Rick Eastman (the race director) had a favorite hike in the immediate area and was
bettin’ we’d be on that trail sooner or later. I thought I’d shoot for sooner.
