“Bron front -

Despite his age, he lead the way dominat-
ing most of the events throughout the series.
_ Muller won. top spot in the junior division
in 2005. _ ; We

The women’s open division crown went ”

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ing for the series several months ago.

New divisions this year included masters,
categories for men and women aged 40 or
more. This year’s wothen’s masters cham- »
pionship went to Kim Barriere while super
athlete Willie Muller took top spot in the

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. "Matthias Muller’s father.

' “It’s great, it’s just the best,”
senior Muller. “It makes me really proud of
-him how well he is doing, he’s just.an amaz-
ing athlete.”

Also new this. year was the introduction

© of a junior girls division for teens aged 13-
_ 16. Marlee Cater nabbed first place in that

‘in the junior boys division.
: _. » ‘The.team. event saw two teams compete’
$ . but it was the all-women team of Vénessa —

‘ler and Sarah Zimmerman who took top spot.

lin Willoner and Ian Buchannan.
“Overall this: year’s event was ‘amaz-

ing,”

e ‘stemming from the hot, hot weather, but we

cessful event.”
That snag came on the first day of com-
'. +» petition ‘during the 30th annual King of the —
, Mountain footrace which sees runners race
Up and over Terrace Mountain. © a
- Adventure Challenge competitor. Karen
 Shaw-Carter was overdue coming in from
_ the race and organizers, volunteers and
‘friends launched ¢ a search for her on the
mountain. a

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Third ‘traight series
win for Sheldon Smaha |

to newcomer Shirley Hahn who started train- ©

men’s masters event: He also happens to be |

says the’.

* division and Chapen Leblond took top spot

Hydamacka, Allison Knoedler, Nadene But-.
* The women just barely defeated the all-male"
“team of Peter. Weeber, Jeff Minhinnick, Co-
says Adventure Challenge president

Sarah Zimmerman. “We had some ‘issues.

worked through: those and had a very suc-’

She was found off the main trail suffering

_ from what appears to have been dehydration’ -

and heat exhaustion. When she was located’
she was unresponsive and needed rehydra- *
tion right away. :
. Volunteers and participants from the race’
including her husband Travis Carter, who
- also happens to be a nurse, raced up the trail
to assist her while emergency services work-
ers arrived.to help get her off the mountain
‘on a Stretcher.’ .
“I was really. very touched by the whole
effort in finding me and getting me off the
-Mountain, so many people went above.
and beyond my expectations and I’m very
‘touched by that -— I appreciate it and it really
_ opened my eyes to what a phenomenal com-
° -munity we live in,” Shaw-Carter says,

“T want this whole experience to become
a learning experience for me and everyone.
I‘learned what my body can’t do but I also
learned what my community can do.”

. _.Her husband started an I.V. while still on
the trail and Shaw-Carter says that’s created
a bond like no other between them.

“It’s not very often that your husband has. -
the opportunity to give you life saving. flu-
ids,” Shaw-Carter says, adding she has no.
memory ‘of what happened. before she col-
_ lapsed. |

“It’s frustrating because to try to prevent
‘it from happening again I need to know what
happened, ” she says, adding. she was feel-
ing ill the week leading up to the Adventure .

“¢

the incident.

“We are just so happy. that Karen is
healthy and doing fine today,” says Zim-
~ merman. “Some good did-come out of the’
incident in that many other athletes really
concentrated on staying hydrated for the rest .
of the weekend and took extra care to make: .
sure they weren’t pushing themselves too
hard. ““Karen’s speedy recovery and amaz-

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