Rookies at Primal Quest? It’s true! Although we’ve been adventure racing with the same team for around three years now, this is our first season of expedition-length adventure racing. We have a lot to learn and not much time to do it. Fortunately, the Baja Travesia is renowned for it’s high level of challenge and it’s affordability, so most of us will be able to get at least one practice race before PQ. Johnny, Mila and I are currently excited (terrified) that Baja is only weeks away.

 Those who don’t know, the Baja Travesia is a five day race across Baja California. DART finished in around two days last year, but we do not anticipate such a finish. For one thing, Mila is still recovering from knee surgery; she had her first run since Christmas this week, and has as yet to run more than three minutes continuously.

Still, we didn’t expect to run all of the race, so we should be ok with a fast hike. Our goal is to learn about expedition racing anyway, not to speed to the finish. I just hope I can make as many mistakes at Baja as possible that would have been made at Primal Quest.

 -Jeremy

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