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The 7th edition of the 750 mile Race to Alaska (R2AK) began June 5 with a 40-mile “proving stage” from Port Townsend, WA to Victoria, BC. For those that finished within 36 hours, they were allowed to start the remaining 710 miles on June 8 to Ketchikan, AK. Here’s the Stage 2/Day 4 report:
Let’s get this out of the way: we give up.
Deep in the word mines of R2AK, we toil day and night to find the single narrative vein that can put all of this engine-less calamity into context. Threads of truth that we can weave into a rope of content and use to rappel you into the unsounded depths of the experience of Race to Alaska.
Today, we’re emerging to the surface with blunted pick axes, a smear of dust on our face, and the thousand-yard stare of too much time underground without hitting the motherlode. Today we’re showing up to scales with a pocketful of unrelated crystals that we’ll give fancy names, charge by the light of the full moon, and sell to tourists. R2AKinium, good for the liver, increasing blood pressure, and the need for adventure, and lowering expectations of news from the race.
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