Anyone feel like climbing a wall, running up hills, hiking in the woods and swimming?
Thursday’s Adventure Race started and ended at the CPA courtyard.
There were many events that were involved in the race, not just running.
It was a great turnout with 12 teams registering, with three people to a team.
“We are really happy with the turnout. We went from two teams to 12 in just 24 hours,” Jason Onks said. “Everyone that signed up showed up.”
Not only did this race include a lot of running, but there were also many other events that were involved with winning this race. The race started out at the CPA courtyard, where one member of the team had to be blindfolded while the other two gave directions of where to step in a strategically placed obstacle course.
Once through the course, teams had to scale a brick wall to get their first envelope. The envelope had clues of where to go – the Basler course or land navigation.
“There is a lot of strategy in the course,” Onks said. The land navigation took the longest amount of time.
Teams used a compass and map to steer their way through the trails behind Baptist Collegiate Ministries.
Halfway through the course, teams had the option of continuing through the trails or going back down to the tent, which came with a 30-minute time penalty.
Once these two courses were completed, teams had to make their way back to the CPA, swim four laps, and then put up a tent, take it down, and race to the finish line. Kwik-Crete won the race, with a time of 35 minutes and 58 seconds.
The team consisted of Rayne Price, Emily Skelton and Andy Trent. In second place was Choco Crackers (48 minutes, 55 seconds) and coming in third was Nobody’s Bidness (49 minutes, 27 seconds).
“The course was well put-together for what we have here,” Skelton said.
Many people thought that biking would be involved in the course, including Jennifer Meslar. “[The course] was what I expected, but I thought there would be biking,” she said.
One reason that there were no bikes was that it would be hard to organize with all the bikes needed.
The Adventure Race was a success. “It was a lot of fun. Sometimes I couldn’t keep up with the boys though,” Meslar said.
One teacher even allowed her students the options of taking a written final or participating in the Adventure Race, and 12 of her students opted for the race.
Campus Recreation is hoping that the event was such a success that they will be able to hold one in the fall and spring of next year.

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