If you haven't already, please confirm your registration details are correct as shown on the Registered Team web page. You may want to get your team biography updated for the website, it's sure to get some exposure as we'll have Race Live tracking of the event in progress (leaderboard, live course map, etc). We'll also have some pre-race prizes for the teams with the funniest or most creative Team Biography; at the moment, the Squirrel Whisperer team is leading the voting for funniest bio!

When you registered for the race, you had some options such as joining us for a catered pre-race meal on Friday evening June 8th or purchasing additional race shirts for your support crew. If you'd like to add meal tickets or additional shirts, email info@UntamedVA.com with the details and we'll get you included.

The hotel situation for Friday night June 8th is that we've blocked off a group of rooms at the Fairfield Inn (ph: 434-964-9411); use "Adventure Race" as your registration keyword to get the group rate. All room reservations with this block must be made no later than May 8th, or the hotel will release the rooms to the public. The location of this hotel isn't relevant to the race course, it's just a reasonable hotel that made the room block available to us for the event. In case you were wondering, your support crew will be very far from Charlottesville on the night of June 9th and they should plan on camping at the TA or sleeping in a vehicle instead of returning to the Charlottesville hotel room.

To update everyone on the riverboarding component of the race, a low supply of boards on the East Coast along with very low water levels has convinced us to rework this element. Instead of providing all racers on all teams with a RipBoard riverboard as we originally planned, we'll be providing one board per team and other teammates can bring their own RipBoard or they can trek, bike, or paddle the alternate route for the section. The alternative was for teams, after the lead 15 or so, to possibly wait in line at the riverboarding section and we don't want any bottlenecks during the race. Instead of every racer needing to have a set of fins for this riverboarding section, we can change that requirement and only require one set of fins per team unless you're bringing your own RipBoard (in which case you'll need fins for every person on the river). We have arranged a great deal on fins & booties for riverboaring, and an amazing deal on RipBoard purchases for racers (like 33% off retail!) if you want to get your own. More on this soon.

There has been a rope course added to the Untamed Virginia Adventure Race. This will be a low ropes course that requires gloves (bike gloves are OK), a helmet (bike helmets are OK), a climbing harness, and two sewn slings or daisy chains. No skill certification or specific training is required to complete the rope course, just some tenacity and balance. The ropes course will be a fun addition to the event, but racers may opt to skip the ropes and incur a time penalty.

The next Captain Communication for the Untamed Virginia Adventure Race will go out in early May and include a more detailed schedule, some course information, specifics regarding the race maps, and more information.