Heather's Yapcrap

Written by: Jennifer Caponi The Tri-City Challenge may not have been my brightest idea. I registered Heather Kluch (aka Chuck Norris or she is compared to Chuck Norris, or can kick his butt...whatever...you get the point  Heather Kluch=badass) and I in the competitive doubles division.  The race consisted of: 1) a 5 mile kayak (thanks Chuck White) paddle on the Fox River from Yorkville to Silver Springs State Park in Plano.  What?? I paddle a boat on average of once every 8 years?  No problem!  How hard can it be?  Keep in mind that in the 8 hour adventure race that I did with Rich McCaleb in May, he had to inform me that I was holding my paddle upside down. D'oh! 2) a 13.5 mile bike ride (we were on mountain bikes) from Plano to Sandwich.  No problem.  I have been riding hard 1-2x per week for a few months, the last few weeks with some roadies, so I am feeling pretty strong and confident. 3) a 5k run in Sandwich which ended at...

aMAYzing Race 8 Hour AR Rock Cut State Park, IL Team: Eyes of the World 1 &2 Kim Chou & Heather Kluch, John Paddock & Joe Racer’s Eve Ugh. That’s all I can say about the night before the race. Chuck (the race director and usually my teamie), his wife, and I decide to have a nice hearty meal the day before the race. Applebee’s should be safe, right? Not for me! I don’t know if it was my steak, my spinach, or the artichoke dip appetizer that Chuck ordered, but the ride back to Chuck’s house after eating was the beginning of my own personal hell. I started to feel a little hot and floaty headed in the car, and as soon as we pulled into the garage, I sprinted for the bathroom. Goodbye steak, spinach and artichoke dip, we didn’t get to hang out for very long! I thought now that was out of my system, I’d feel a ton better. I thought wrong. I sit down on the couch and my lovely teamie Kim arrives, she is also sick, but with a fever, so this was all starting out g...

Planet Adventure Challenge 30 Hour Adventure Race Derby, IN Team Eyes of the World: Chuck White, Don Bart, Heather Kluch Pre-race After a 7 hour drive to our hotel with the excessive use of the words bogart, epic, and hoss, we finally arrived around 3am. Luckily they let us have a late checkout or we would’ve been zombies. We pointlessly brought all our gear into our hotel room thinking we were going to get it ready to go from there, but instead ended up loading everything back into the SUV. Smart move there. We decide we all need coffee and find this cute little shop that’s cooking up greasy fatty goodness. Even though I had already eaten, the bacon is making me drool. I resist my meaty temptations and go with the best mocha frappacrappy midgetchino (or whatever they called it) I’ve ever had. Since I don’t like coffee, they created magic.  We then head over to the prerace meeting location even though we’re super early. We figure we can hang out and get our gear t...