Mohican Endurance Festival Race Report

This past Sunday I raced in the inaugural Mohican Endurance Festival, hosted by HFP Racing.  HFP normally hosts great events, and they do their best to make them feel 'bigger' than they actually are.  I've been to Mohican State Park in Ohio a number of times camping and fishing and what not, but I've never raced there before, so I was looking forward to this race.



Mohican's iconic covered bridge

Being the inaugural event, I figured the turnout would be a little low.  HFP also capped the field size to 500 racers max - presumably due to park restrictions.  500 racers, that is, spread out across Mini, Sprint, Olympic, and Half distance races.  I chose the Olympic (1 mile swim, 40K/25 mile bike, 10K/6.2 mile run) since I didn't really know where my fitness was at this year, and I expected the field for that race to be pretty small (it was just under 80 people).