Day 1917 | Family Adventure Challenge: Part One

Today was a first for our little family: our first adventure challenge! Chris’s friend from high school puts on an adventure race in Wausau every May, but it was cancelled this year because of Covid. They decided to put together a virtual event instead. See all the details here. We’re sad they couldn’t host the real event, but we’re a bit happy, too, because it means we could participate (we never would have been able to pull off the read deal!).

The basics of the challenge are that we have to bike 2 hours, hike 1.5 hours, and participate in another outdoor activity for 1.5 hours–all in a 48 hour window. We decided to take on the bike and canoe portions of the race today and we had such a lovely time. We ended up biking 11.4 miles all around Eau Claire trying to cross as many bridges as possible. Total bridge count? 16. No too shabby, right? We took a quick lunch break and then headed out for the 1.5 hour canoe trip down the Chippewa River (which ended up taking over 4 hours by the time you account for coordinating the logistics procuring a canoe, parking cars at both locations, and what not).

It was the perfect day for this outdoor adventure. The boys were such good sports…in fact, I don’t think they complained at all! We’ve got our hike left for tomorrow but that will feel like a walk in the park (literally) after today’s activity level.

Thanks for putting together a virtual adventure challenge like this, Tim and Anna! We appreciate the extra motivation to take advantage of this beautiful weekend.