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Thursday Jul 26, 2018 #
Adventure Race 24:00:00 [3]
Leg 2b, Canoe 30 miles
Then we rolled into our next TA, the canoe. We launched onto the Saco River and the fog reminded me of the fog we experienced at WT. Eric was mentioning that he needed a break from navigating, so Brenda navigated the next 2 points. We had hoped for a current, but there really wasn’t one which led to a bit of a slow paddle.
Leg 3, Bike, 70 miles
Landed at TA 3, which was the beginning of a 70 mile MTB split by the MTB-O and a pancake paradise. During this section, it was discovered that we left one of the maps behind to TA 4. Team members started talking to other teams to look at maps, and eventually located one to trace on a “mapkin”. Each team member went on to the MTB O, and I got my first points quickly, but struggled with my last one because I couldn’t see the distinction in the trail. Fortunately we fixed that. During this time, my bike light completely broke off and was lost. Yep, super duper super duper low point #1. I wanted to quit, I was feeling behind the team, frustrated that I didn’t have a light, and frustrated that while I tried to sleep I couldn’t. (The others were able to nod off a bit.) But bucked it up and went around asking for a light I could just duct tape to my bar. We were off again with great ambitions of making the first cutoff. I struggled on the ATV trails with my makeshift light system. Eventually Eric put his bike lights on my bar and I was travelling much faster. As we got closer to the TA, we had to rely a lot on tire tracks without the map. And we made it! PHEW.
Then we rolled into our next TA, the canoe. We launched onto the Saco River and the fog reminded me of the fog we experienced at WT. Eric was mentioning that he needed a break from navigating, so Brenda navigated the next 2 points. We had hoped for a current, but there really wasn’t one which led to a bit of a slow paddle.
Leg 3, Bike, 70 miles
Landed at TA 3, which was the beginning of a 70 mile MTB split by the MTB-O and a pancake paradise. During this section, it was discovered that we left one of the maps behind to TA 4. Team members started talking to other teams to look at maps, and eventually located one to trace on a “mapkin”. Each team member went on to the MTB O, and I got my first points quickly, but struggled with my last one because I couldn’t see the distinction in the trail. Fortunately we fixed that. During this time, my bike light completely broke off and was lost. Yep, super duper super duper low point #1. I wanted to quit, I was feeling behind the team, frustrated that I didn’t have a light, and frustrated that while I tried to sleep I couldn’t. (The others were able to nod off a bit.) But bucked it up and went around asking for a light I could just duct tape to my bar. We were off again with great ambitions of making the first cutoff. I struggled on the ATV trails with my makeshift light system. Eventually Eric put his bike lights on my bar and I was travelling much faster. As we got closer to the TA, we had to rely a lot on tire tracks without the map. And we made it! PHEW.