Baja Travesia
The Story of the Race
Paul Romero / 31.03.2007
The story of the race…………The tales of the BT ’07 will be tall. The ocean flexed its muscles like never before.
There are boats shattered all over the Baja Coast. Most athletes wobble with 2nd degree sunburn and deep chaffing. Stories from the canyon are not even believable. The scantily clad spring breakers are in the thousands. The list goes on.
But the story of this race, for most, is about the young team of Team Barely Legal. Daniel is a six foot tall and relatively thick navigator. Paul is about 5’7� tanned skinny kid, and Erica resembles everyone’s favorite little sister or niece. Soft spoken, about 5’4� with round school girl glasses…she is the picture of a champion in disguise. She provides much of the hustle and charm of the team. Together, these three are moving across one of the most parched deserts in the world on day 5 of one of the toughest adventure race courses on the circuit. They are one of only eleven ranked teams of the twenty that started in Ensenada. There are experienced teams that pulled the plug, shattered from this tough course. Not Barely Legal, averaging age 19 in their first race over 24 hour.
It’s nearing 100F and what remain are 10km trek and a 14km paddle to the town of San Felipe. They do not know that many of their family have made the 6 hour drive to the finish line to await their arrival.
Remember these names for you will see them on the scene and near the top rankings soon. Erica Kimmel, Daniel Staudigel, Paul Cassedy.
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