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Saturday May 13, 2006 #
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STORM The Trent - 2-day, 130 km, solo adventure stage race
Adventure Racing race 5:14:00 [4]
ahr:165 max:192
Storm the Trent
Bash and I did this solo. We saw there was a paddle start followed by bike, so I donned my lifejacket (full of water and food) under my pack full of water and running shoes, and changed into my hard soled MTB shoes. Well, the start was a surprise 20' orienteering run to 3 CPs in the bush. Even with the shoes and heavy load I was doing OK until my pack exploded, so it was a poor start.
In my kayak I managed to catch up to all but the first 4 boats after a zone 4-5 effort. Gazelle was leading the race!
After a poor transition (My huge expedition kayak paddles well but is a beast to schlep) was a fairly long road bike leg, which went well enough but I only reeled in a couple of the leaders. This was followed by the advanced section, bike-O. I wasn't expecting this, and hadn't realized how tough it is on my 'Bent to read a map flapping around my neck. A handlebar map holder can't work for me. Also no scale on the map. Naturally I made a couple of huge nav errors, and met Bash part way through (Deja-vu from last week?) The running section went fine, as we both took shortcuts through the bush. I saw JeffW leave the transition, and knew he was leading the masters, so I rode and ran pretty hard on the last 2 sections, but trailed him by 55 seconds at the finish.
I was reasonably pleased with 2nd Masters, given that I had a race full of errors. Probably 6th solo. First overall was Phatty, and Gazelle was 4th after a bike nav problem.
Once again, the invincible Bash was only 10' behind me and blew away all the female teams and most of the others. A Caledon sweep of the solos!
All in all, a nice race. Trickier nav than I had expected from a "marked course" race, and more bushwhacking and muck-running too. Some very pretty trails and very nice terrain in general. Dunno how Mr STORM does it- running 3 races in one weekend. He looked happy but more tired than the racers!
Bash and I did this solo. We saw there was a paddle start followed by bike, so I donned my lifejacket (full of water and food) under my pack full of water and running shoes, and changed into my hard soled MTB shoes. Well, the start was a surprise 20' orienteering run to 3 CPs in the bush. Even with the shoes and heavy load I was doing OK until my pack exploded, so it was a poor start.
In my kayak I managed to catch up to all but the first 4 boats after a zone 4-5 effort. Gazelle was leading the race!
After a poor transition (My huge expedition kayak paddles well but is a beast to schlep) was a fairly long road bike leg, which went well enough but I only reeled in a couple of the leaders. This was followed by the advanced section, bike-O. I wasn't expecting this, and hadn't realized how tough it is on my 'Bent to read a map flapping around my neck. A handlebar map holder can't work for me. Also no scale on the map. Naturally I made a couple of huge nav errors, and met Bash part way through (Deja-vu from last week?) The running section went fine, as we both took shortcuts through the bush. I saw JeffW leave the transition, and knew he was leading the masters, so I rode and ran pretty hard on the last 2 sections, but trailed him by 55 seconds at the finish.
I was reasonably pleased with 2nd Masters, given that I had a race full of errors. Probably 6th solo. First overall was Phatty, and Gazelle was 4th after a bike nav problem.
Once again, the invincible Bash was only 10' behind me and blew away all the female teams and most of the others. A Caledon sweep of the solos!
All in all, a nice race. Trickier nav than I had expected from a "marked course" race, and more bushwhacking and muck-running too. Some very pretty trails and very nice terrain in general. Dunno how Mr STORM does it- running 3 races in one weekend. He looked happy but more tired than the racers!