June 28-29, 2008

Celebrating 5 Years of Adventure Racing!

CRADLE OF LIBERTY 24 HOUR ADVENTURE RACE

FINAL 2008 Cradle of Liberty Complete Standings
Eastern Mountain Sports - 500 points
Wedali - 485 points
NYARA - 470 points
Nature Cure/ARMD - 400 points
Teamhalfwaythere.com - 390 points
Ar(rrrrr / # 358 - 360 points
Team Gung Ho - 350 points
Team Summers Off - 350 points
He's Nuts, I'm just stupid - 320 points
34th Street - 310 points
Dynamic Duo - 300 points
There's More - 230 points
Cherubini Brothers - 230 points
Team Moosejaw - 230 points
ARMD #2 - 210 points
Band of Brothers - 200 points
The Average Joes - 185 points
* Kettle Creek Racing - 390 points
* GOALS ARA - 315 points
* Thunder Road - 275 points
* Lo-Speed Zombies - 240 points
* Foxtrots - 90 points (time penalty adjusted)
Underdog and Miss Polly - DNF
Paramount Adventure - DNF
* = unranked (full team did not complete race)

Rank by divisions
Coed 3 person
1. Eastern Mountain Sports
2. WEDALI
3. Nature Cure/ARMD
4. Teamhalfwaythere.com
5. AR(rrrrr) / #358
6. Team Gung Ho
Coed 2 person
1. There's More
2. ARMD #2
Male 2
1. NYARA
2. Team Summers Off
3. He's Nuts I'm just Stupid
4. Dynamic Duo
5 . The Average Joes
Masters Male 2
1. 34th Street
2. Team Moosejaw
3. Band of Brother
Male 3
1. Cherubini Brothers
Masters Male 3
1. Thunder Road

The 5th annual running of the Cradle of Liberty Adventure Race kicked off at 5pm on Saturday June 28. 24 teams took to the field for what would be a grueling next 24 hours. A 12 mile run led to a 15 mile lake paddle, followed by road ride, trail ride, swampy orienteering course, more trail riding, more up hill, more down hill, more bugs, more mosquitoes, more horse flies, more swamp, more trails, more road, more bushwacking...and finally to the finish line!

The real story of this race was the true sportsmanship that was shown by all teams. Team Eastern Mountain Sports was out on the course kicking butt, and also helped along some of the newer teams. Special props go to Teamhalfwaythere.com for "adopting" a member of team #17 and allowing him to shadow their team for the remainder of the race. Now that's really the true spirit of adventure racing. AWESOME GUYS! And great determination of the racer from Team #17 Kettle Creek Racing after his teammate was unable to continue. Amazing. In addition, teams #12 (Foxtrots) and #18 (Lo-speed Zombies) became 1 team after each lost a teammate and became the team 18/12 or 12/18. Really amazing, finishing a 24 hour fairly difficult course with someone you just met.

Congratulations to Team Eastern Mountain Sports for winning the Coed/3 division and being overall winner in the 5th annual Cradle of Liberty Adventure Race! The race was a rogaine style course, and they were the only team to clear the entire course and collect all 500 points.

This puts them in the running for the USARA National Championships, and earns them more points toward the Checkpoint Tracker Series

Congratulations to team's: There's More (Coed/2), NYARA (Male/2), 24th Street (Mast Male/2); Cherubini Bros (Male/3), Thunder Road (Mas Male/3)--for their 1st place win in their respective categories.

This race was a USARA National Qualifier as well as a Checkpoint Tracker Series Participant. We could put lots more details on this site---but why??

Check out all the cool stuff on this race including race blogs, leaderboards, times into checkpoints, notes from the course, etc. at www.checkpointtracker.com

A special thanks to all of our volunteers, racers, and sponsors. Thank you to DCNR, Pa State Game Commission and Alices Wonderland!

GOALS ARA

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