That is what I was going to say...Eco challenge. Those are cool. I would love to do one of these, but don't have the time. I think it would be really fun. Hard, but fun. They have an Xterra one also that is more of a triathalon, too. I think they have one of them in Tahoe every year.

 

The dude in the cube next to me at work was a participant in Primal Quest this year

Peter Gibson from team NKF Norcal:
http://www.subaruprimalquest.com/rac...C2AAC25060F928

You can see the day they lost a whole crapload of time on the graph. They basically stopped to save a dude who nearly drowned. They still finished in 8 days.

This guy wore sandals to work for a week because his feet hurt so much. He showed me the bottom of his foot and it was a total wreck. Like 30 blisters on each foot, some that were in the same spot, you could see there was like a couple smaller blisters inside what had been a previous blister than popped.

This guy is totally aggro. He'll go swimming a mile in the morning, then run 10 miles at lunch.

On top of the already strenuous task of completing the course, the so-cal fires started about that time, and he said they were getting some smoke (not a lot, but some) in the southernmost portion of the course. He didn't even know about the fires until they had been burning for quite a while.