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Saturday May 14, 2011 #
8 AM
Adventure Racing 7:36:46 84.73 km (5:23 / km) +1042m 5:05 / km
ahr:158 max:188
Storm Trek Elite. A bit nervous going in to this inured.
Paddle went well, but I think I snagged weeds when I put my rudder down half way through as my speed abruptly dropped over 1kph and I finished behind a canoe, a K1 and another sea kayak. Frankenjack was long gone.
On the bike I was nervous of taking a wrong turn in the unmarked section, but it went fine and I was able to stay up with the lead teams. Unfortunately, something on the marked section didn't look right to me, and combined with mistaken info from another team had me backtracking needlessly against traffic past the entire Trek race, and then having to pass them again, which added 24 minutes of nasty hydro-cut riding. I was having problems with my map board too- it doesn't work that well on the 'bent as it can't be horizontal, and it started to fall down repeatedly.
Trek- I took the trek section slowly, (More than 6 min/km) to spare my ankle. The taping job helped, but I suffered off-trail on the off-camber stuff and it was pretty sore by the end. Found all CPs dead-on.
Next up- bike-o. Total navigational train wreck- just couldn't concentrate on the bouncing blurry map or get my head around the terrain.
Several massive mistakes, but at least I got to do the most technical trails multiple times for fun. Over 45 minutes more nav error, and a lot more time lost tied up with Trek teams on Canadian Tire bikes. Oh well, never give up. Passed team after team heading to the final trek which went spot-on, then to the finish.
Although I was hours behind Frankenjack, I'm old enough that nobody else in my category finished so I got a poorly deserved medal from the kind Sean, who runs an excellent race.
Despite my piss-poor performance in my return to racing, in hindsight it's a big step for me in that my beat up body held up OK and the brain and eyes were the main problem. Still not particularly fast- I would have probably been about 6 hours with clean bike nav.
Paddle went well, but I think I snagged weeds when I put my rudder down half way through as my speed abruptly dropped over 1kph and I finished behind a canoe, a K1 and another sea kayak. Frankenjack was long gone.
On the bike I was nervous of taking a wrong turn in the unmarked section, but it went fine and I was able to stay up with the lead teams. Unfortunately, something on the marked section didn't look right to me, and combined with mistaken info from another team had me backtracking needlessly against traffic past the entire Trek race, and then having to pass them again, which added 24 minutes of nasty hydro-cut riding. I was having problems with my map board too- it doesn't work that well on the 'bent as it can't be horizontal, and it started to fall down repeatedly.
Trek- I took the trek section slowly, (More than 6 min/km) to spare my ankle. The taping job helped, but I suffered off-trail on the off-camber stuff and it was pretty sore by the end. Found all CPs dead-on.
Next up- bike-o. Total navigational train wreck- just couldn't concentrate on the bouncing blurry map or get my head around the terrain.
Several massive mistakes, but at least I got to do the most technical trails multiple times for fun. Over 45 minutes more nav error, and a lot more time lost tied up with Trek teams on Canadian Tire bikes. Oh well, never give up. Passed team after team heading to the final trek which went spot-on, then to the finish.
Although I was hours behind Frankenjack, I'm old enough that nobody else in my category finished so I got a poorly deserved medal from the kind Sean, who runs an excellent race.
Despite my piss-poor performance in my return to racing, in hindsight it's a big step for me in that my beat up body held up OK and the brain and eyes were the main problem. Still not particularly fast- I would have probably been about 6 hours with clean bike nav.