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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 7 report:
Team We Brake for Whales crossed the finish line around 7am local time (June 14), finishing the race in 5 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes. The crowd cheered as they crossed the line, then pedaled, and pedaled, and pedaled into the dock. The seldom-seen, final invisible adversary was the outgoing current from the creek that flows out through Thomas Basin.
Hugs and laughs abound, a snuggle of a baby, then they rang the bell and drank/NASCAR-showered in beer and champagne as is the custom of all R2AK finishers.
Cameras of the local TV and newspaper were on the dock ready to roll in “3, 2, 1” and the local radio station could only have been more excited about a live finish during drive time if Ketchikan had more than 30 miles of roads end to end. Friends and family from down south, Hunter ‘The Kilt Guy’, and the rest of KTN regulars all crowded in to wish them well. It was part reunion, part laughter fused recounting of a race well run…
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