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Last week, Outsides John McCauley and Will Palmer (based in Santa Fe) and Jeremy Spencer (based in Portland) participated in the third annual Portland Oyster Race, part of Merrells 2009 urbanadventurerace series, which moved on from replica brand watches Portland to San Francisco last weekend and concludes in Austin (Oct. 11) and Nashville (Oct. 24). Our sixperson team—the Merrell/Outside Fighting Wombats!—comprised us, local adventure hound/Jeremys old buddy Matt Ruhland (who was better than our Magellan Maestro GPS at finding local landmarks), and Merrell representatives Emily Snayd and Linda Brunzell, who flew in from Connecticut and Michigan, respectively.

While other teams were engaged in their plyometric routines, the Wombats were recounting the previous nights long pubandvideoarcade crawl and debating not the benefits of caffeine as a performance enhancer but, rather, which is better: light or dark roast? (Were still arguing about this. Feel free to break the deadlock in Comments.) replica Tag Heuer watch Then the PA fired up and it was time to race. Lets recount what happened next, shall we? WP: Stage 1 required someone with a cell phone, which for some reason was me, to follow race organizer Doug to a tour bus, where we were given nylon bags to place over our heads as we rode about three miles to a blind bus stop, where wed get our first race passport and start competing.

Our blindfolds were removed and we got our cards, which said to make our way to the Made in Oregon sign, something that everyone but me was able to orient toward and start sprinting. Surely 80 Portlanders running in one direction couldnt all be wrong, so I followed them over the Willamette River on one of Portlands eight replica Bell & Ross watch bridges, eventually getting a call from Jeremy and Matt, who were also required to get themselves to the sign. The 2.5mile run did wonders to shake my hangover and coldmedicine haze, and I realized with a jolt that I was enjoying myself. Then I met up with those guys, and the pace dropped off sharply.JS: Ahem. First, regarding sharp pace dropoffs, I wish to state for the record that I live an adventure race.