Lisa Barnes is a 35 year old Electrical Engineer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Her love of the outdoors developed as she grew up in the woods of Northern Minnesota.

She enjoys a variety of outdoor sports including rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, road cycling, kayaking, and trail running.

She completed her first adventure race, the Desert Quest Adventure Race in 1998 with a 2nd place finish. Since then she has competed in two of the Four Winds Mountain Rage races, the Superior Desert Dare with a 3rd place finish, and traveled to Brazil for the Expedicao Mata Atlantica (EMA) Adventure Race with Team Santa Fe - Phoenix where they finished 13th..