It has been almost four years since professional adventure racer, Dave Norona, race competitively but this past weekend, Dave made a brief (one time?) exit out of retirement to race in Scotland’s Drambuie Pursuit. Racing with Frank Wolf, Kevin Vallely, and Greg Inkster, Dave and his team took on teams from around the world in this one day adventure race. Here’s an excerpt from Dave’s newsletter:

We arrived in London for a pint and then on to Inverness, Scotland. The first evening we were given food and then taken out to a giant castle for the prologue - an Archery section. We placed 4th on the night with two impressive sessions by Greg and Frank. Over the next day we mountain biked, ran, canoed, and did a section on dune buggies and Zap Kats which are inflatable speed boats that go 50 miles per hour and push 3 G’s in the corners. We were the passengers in this section and the goal was to try and not fall out. After a wicked day of hard racing we arrived at the finish line in first place overall. We celebrated with the other teams well into the night with lots of amazing Drambuie Drinks and fine food.

So, does this mean Dave is officially out of retirement? Well, he will be at the Squamish MOMAR, but as the event’s MC. For those of you that have never heard of Dave, he has won 8 overall MOMAR titles between 2000 and 2004. He’s raced in almost all of the big adventure races around the world and is super fun guy. He’s going to keep you entertained at the finish line and he will be on the dance floor all night.