After action report - emergency space blanket

[Tim K]

No one has finished for several years, including this year. We finished with a handful of other teams 3-4 years ago. That was the last time anyone completed the race. We did not make it to the cave checkpoint. It was two away from where we finished. Sounded cool as heck.

Didn’t take much food. Experience tells us we barely eat. I ate three pieces of beef jerky, several hands full of potato chips, six or so honey zingers, and probably 20 Liquid IVs. It’s a powdered electrolyte formula. Oh, and two chicken salad sandwiches my wife made me. Good solid rucking food! We were wearing heart rate monitors. Estimated calorie deficit was on the order of 35,000-40,000.

Water was all streams, ponds or stock tanks unless you got back to hq where well water was available. Our water filter got a workout.