Jon, Peter and I had the pleasure of captaining three teams of first-time adventure racers in this weekend's Siege on Fort Yargo sprint adventure race in Winder, Ga.

Our teams didn't win the event sponsored by Trailblazers Adventure Racing Club, but we must have had the most fun. And I believe all the rookies want to come back for some more!

Checkpoint Zero, in partnership with GoLite, sponsored the Checkpoint Challenge in which aspiring racers were invited to write an essay on why they wanted to race on three Checkpoint Zero/GoLite teams. Those chosen got a race entry, some great GoLite gear, and hopefully learned a little about adventure racing from us during the event.

Thanks to Yak for putting this together and for all the Zeros who made the weekend very memorable.

- Paul