Orienteering race 6:57:00 [4]
shoes: Montrail GTX
BAMM day 2
We had a pretty decent time in camp with lots of hot drinks and food, and more space in our 1kg tent than the top racers in their blue coffin tents. Intermittent showers and fairly cool. My cheapo 1kg sleeping bag wasn't great though, even with 3 layers of clothes on. The hotshots had 500g, $400 down bags.
Today the team that was over an hour behind us started to run early on. Bash wasn't going to let them catch up today, so we did a lot more running. We'd lead our group up the steep hills, but they'd run more on the descent when they could see us, so on a final steep climb we put on the tow rope, cranked on the trekking poles and passed them all, then ran down hard to leave them behind. I'd kinda hoped that we might do better on day 2 than the younger teams as we're used to longer events.
There was more route choice today, and we didn't know if the other teams took a more direct "over and down" route than our "round the mountain" plan, but we ended up finishing well ahead of 5th, and the former 3rd came in a long way after with some shin problems. 1st and 2nd were within seconds of each other, and 40 min ahead of us.
We were a little surprised but pleased to be on the podium. All in all, a great event, and we really enjoyed racing it together. The other teams were very friendly and sociable, saving us spots at the banquet and demonstrating excellent English.