Caribou duo performs well at East Grand Adventure Race

by Staff Aroostook Republican
10 years ago

The annual East Grand Adventure Race featured 80 participants May 10, with 35 teams taking part in the 20-mile course. The race included a 1.6-mile compass run, 10 miles of mountain biking, eight miles of paddling and numerous challenges along the way that could earn minutes off the overall time, including a mud pit crawl, log rolling, two-person cross-cut saw and Tomahawk throwing.
The overall winners were Calum Hamilton and Hanna Renedo of Orono, who completed the course with a time of 2:35:01. The pair maxed out with time deductions earning them a total of 40 minutes off their course time. Ten minutes for the mud crawl, 10 minutes for two stuck tomahawks, 10 minutes for staying upright for 30 seconds during the log roll, and 10 minutes off for the two-person cross-cut sawing completed in two minutes.
Second place overall went to Logan Crone of Danforth and Andy VanEss of Hermon with a time of 2:44:20.
The duo of Thomas Beckum and Dylan Paddleford of Caribou came in third place in the Junior-Senior division with a time of 3 hours, 58 minutes and 57 seconds.
More than 50 local volunteers made the event possible with many working safety and check points, keeping track of time, shuttling racers and gear to and from the field, overseeing challenges, taking pictures and donating food and money for the cookout that followed the race.
The overall results: 1.  Hamilton/Renedo; 2. Crone, /VanEss, 2:44:20; 3. Eli Pangburn, Easton/Grant Erikson, Scituate Mass., 2:50:10; 4. Malcolm/Henry Milligan, Ashland, 2:53:30; 5. Ben/Nah Allan-Rahill, Orono, 2:54:52; 6. Kenan Estes, Sidney/Bo Willoughby, Winslow, 3:03:05; 7. Sarah Whitty/Dale Hart, Bangor, 3:06:28; 8. Lowel Ruck, Orono/Stanley P. Levitsky, Orono, 3:12:29; 9. James Roche, Wells/John Paul Argnetni, Watertown, Mass., 3:15:22; 10. Sammi Nadeau, Orono/Kaily Schmidt, Orono, 3:17:47.
Also, 11. Kyle Ritchie/Kyle Arsic, Oromocto, N.B., 3:22:51; 12. Chelsea Winiarski, Forest Twp./Kim Stoddard, Danforth, 3:28:05; 13. Phil Ruck Orono/Stanley M. Levitsky, Orono, 3:34:20; 14. Lee Kays/Emanuel Boss, Orono, 3:35:29; 15. Fiona/Gordon Hamilton, Orono, 3:38:58; 16. Cole Harriman, Topsfield/Nathan Gilman, Forest Twp., 3:47:54; 17. Kate Fergusson/Emile Seavey, Orono, 3:50:10; 18. Alec Downs, Brookton/Jake Davis, Danforth,  3:51:03; 19. Beckum/Paddleford, Caribou, 3:58:57; 20. Aaron Sixberry/Peter Apgar, Danforth, 3:59:19.