Northern California’s 6 and 12 hr run, ride and paddle adventure races.

 

Summer Challenge Pictures on flickr

The 2014 Summer Challenge
 
Winners. Team Lucky, Mila Olsen and John Ryan win the 12hr, Wild Woodchucks, Matt Hanko and Jeff Vasek take the 6hr.
 
The Summer Challenge started at 8am with a run/trek in the Tuttletown rec area of Melones lake on dirt trails. Teams completed the section by returning to the start area and transitioning to boats. Competitors had to haul boats about 400 yards down the lake shore to the water. A 3 mile paddle took them to the Glory Hole side of the lake where they left their boats and did a small hike to the bike transition at TA 2. A bike route in the Angles Creek and Tower Climb trails of Glory Hole kept the racers attention until they returned to TA 3 to drop bikes and hike back to their boats. The 6 hour teams paddled to the Finish back in Tuttletown while the 12 hr teams visited TA4 , at the start location, and then continued on in boats toward the south end of Lake Melones. Just a few teams were in time to park their boats at the K3 boat take out and head into Peoria Hills on foot to pick up checkpoints. The winning teams found 6 CP's while the next few teams got 3 or 4. Several teams manged only to paddle toward K3 before having to turn around to get back to the finish line by 8 pm prior to the cutoff, after which teams incurred 10 minutes penalty per minute late.
 
Full results posted below

 12 hr positions.

 Place  Team Time  Team Class
1 Lucky  10:36 2 person coed
2 Hombres Des Mais  11:00 2 person coed
3 Barking Frogs  11:34 2 person coed
4 Stoopid  11:41 2 person male
5 All Trout Events  11:29 2 person male
6 Above and Beyond 12:09 2 person coed
7 One Big Guy 11:51 Solo male
8 Rogue/Raider 11:01 2 person coed
9 PAVI 12:00 Solo male
10 Me SLO Horny 11:59 3 person coed
11 Earth Bound homes DNF lost passport Solo male
12 Old Titanium Tanks DNF  2 person male
13 Space Olympians DNF  2 person male

6 hr positions

 Place  Team Time  Team Class
1 Wild Woodchucks 5:41 2 person amle
2 Altitude Junkies 5:47 2 person coed
3 Contra Costa Colegas 5:55 2 person male
4 Kwagga 7:17 solo male
5 BarbWire4Breakfast 7:35 2 person female
6 Greener 9:26 4 person coed
7= Firestarter1 7:43 2 person coed
7= Firestarter2 7:43 2 person female
9 Mud and Obstacle 7:39 solo male
10 Green 7:41 4 person coed
11 #NoCardio 8:27 2 person male
12 SCAR 8:40 3 person coed 
13 Spite and malice 8:04 3 person coed
14 Greenest 8:44 Unranked 4 person coed

Detailed Results:

12 hour

Place

 Team

TA1
Boat
Pickup

TA2
Bike
Pickup

TA3
Bike
Drop

TA4

Finish

 

Number of
CP's not 
found *.

Time 

Notes

Team Class

1

Lucky

1:33

2:25

4:24

5:10

10:36

T0;B0;P5

 10:36

2 person coed

2

Hombres Des Mais

1:38

2:31

4:26

5:23

11:00

T0;B0;P5

 11:00

2 person coed

3

Barking Frogs

1:45

2:36

4:35

5:45

11:34

T0;B0;P6

 11:34

2 person coed

4

Stoopid

1:36

2:34

4:52

6:13

11:41

T0;B0;P6

 11:41

2 person male

5

All Trout Events

1:42

2:35

4:52

6:02

11:29

T0:B0:P7

 11:29

2 person male

6

Above and Beyond

1:41

2:46

4:53

6:04

12:09

T0;B0;P5

12:09

60 min cutoff penalty

2 person coed

7

One Big Guy

2:08

4:37

7:31

8:45

11:51

T0;B0;P11

11:51

Solo male

8

Rogue/Raider

2:51

4:20

6:46

8:47

11:01

T1;B2;P11

11:01

2 person coed

9

PAVI

1:43

4:43

7:17

8:16

12:00

T0;P0;B11

12:00

10 min cutoff penalty

Solo male

10

Me SLO Horny

2:14

3:45

6:46

8:21

11:59

T3;B4;P11

11:59

3 person coed

11

Earth Bound homes

1:46

2:32

4:16

5:05

 

DNF Lost passport

Solo male

12

Old Titanium Tanks

2:13

3:46

7:10

8:58

 

DNF

2 person male

13

Space Olympians

2:18

4:47

6:54

8:14

 

DNF

2 person male

  * T= TREK out of 10 CP's.  B = BIKE out of 10 CP's. P=Peoria out of 12 CP's.

6 Hour

 Place

 Team

TA1
Boat
Pickup

TA2
Bike
Pickup

TA3
Bike
Drop

Finish

Number of
CP's not 
found

Time 

Notes

Team Class

1

Wild Woodchucks

1:41

2:31

4:36

5:41

0

 5:41

 

2 person male

2

Altitude Junkies

1:53

3:02

4:42

5:46

0

 5:47

 

2 person coed

3

Contra Costa Colegas

1:44

2:40

4:42

5:55

0

 5:55

 

2 person male

4

Kwagga

2:18

3:55

5:55

6:16

0

7:17

 

solo male

5

BarbWire4Breakfast

2:27

3:48

6:01

7:36

0

7:35

 

2 person female

6

Greener

1:56

4:18

7:35

9:25

0

9:26

 

4 person coed

7=

Firestarter1

3:09

4:40

6:00

7:43

4

7:43

 

2 person coed

7=

Firestarter2

3:09

4:40

6:00

7:43

4

7:43

 

2 person female

9

Mud and Obstacle

2:09

5:08

6:09

7;41

6

7:39

 

solo male

10

Green

2:46

4:30

6:13

7:42

6

7:41

 

4 person coed

11

#NoCardio

2:06

4:47

7:03

8:26

6

8:27

 

2 person male

12

SCAR

3:51

5:31

7:01

8:40

6

8:40

 

3 person coed 

13

Spite and malice

2:18

4:26

6:12

8:05

7

8:04

 

3 person coed

14

Greenest

2:19

3:54

7:21

8:36

8:44 Unranked

 

4 person coed