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Swimrun Orcas 2021 race report

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The first swimrun I really fell in love-at-first-photo with was Swimrun NC . The waterfalls and the Fall colors and the views from the top of Moore's Wall. I knew I had to do that race. And I did , and it was just as amazing as the pictures had promised. I've done a lot of races since then, but the next race I fell completely in love with based purely on photos was Swimrun Orcas . I've not spent much time in the Pacific Northwest, and the photos made it look like my idea of running paradise. Forests of tall trees and green moss and loamy trails and dappled sunlight.  I needed to do this race. Fortunately Trista felt exactly the same way, and after  Rockman was postponed again, it became my main focus for 2021. It played to our strengths in a couple ways: likely to be cold weather, and definitely cold water, and played against our strengths in other ways: Trista hates uphill, I'm not great at fast downhill. And the course goes up and down two mountains. It's also a