RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas –
For their third year in a row, "Xtreme" team "Continuous Motion" earned top honors in their division at the Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas-sponsored fifth-annual "Adventure Race" on April 18.
With a completion time of three hours, 55 minutes, they toppled 13 other Xtreme teams to earn the gold.
Team "Continuous Motion" includes Lt. Col. Gregg Kopeck, 12th Operations Group; Lt. Col. Doug Hamlin, 12th Flying Training Wing Safety; Chief Master Sgt. Ralph Humphrey, Air Education and Training Command; and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Seibel, 342nd Training Squadron at Lackland AFB.
The team competed on a weather-modified course that consisted of 29-mile bike, seven-mile run and two-mile rafting events in the competition that nearly mirror the Randolph Air Force Base-sponsored "Rambler 120."
The team earned their first place win despite losing a team member last-minute for emergency leave and a pre-race bicycle malfunction that could've hurt the team, said Kopeck. The triumph comes as one of the final victories Chief Humphrey will see before his retirement next month.
"I'm very excited to end my active-duty career with this win," said Humphrey. "The teamwork was what got us across the line. Even though I had to buy and ride a Wal-Mart bike the day of the competition, we still had the fastest bike time. It was really fun racing those Laughlin guys."
Overall, more than 50 teams and 200 competitors from across the Southwest participated in the event.