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Saturday Jun 30, 2012 #
biking 2:30:00 [3] 20.0 mi (7:30 / mi)
shoes: Pearl Izumi X Alp
Lake Fairfax. Some trails had trees down from the storm.
Sunday Jun 24, 2012 #
adventure racing race 7:00:00 [3]
UntamedNE
Around 3:45 AM we get turned around at a junction a few miles before West Forks because we can't figure out if we are already at West Forks or not. We are all exhausted from running/jogging on mud trails for 7 hours. It starts to get light, so I suggest we just float the rest of the way in packrafts, but no one wants to get wet or have their packraft destroyed on the rocks. We finally get into town and start seeing several other teams struggling to find points, some dejected that they won't have enough time to finish their mandatory points. We are still fresh and have some time, but only decide to get one easy point, a peninsula at the convergence of the 2 rivers. From this point we see the water level is low. We take the road in to the finish, jogging by several teams. At this point, my feet start to fall apart from being soaked for 12 hours. The flat terrain of the road starts causing all my hotspots to blister, and by the time we finish, I am barely able to hobble across the finish.
Overall, happy that we got to see most of the race course, and that the 3 of us stayed and worked well together despite never having met before. It was interesting that among the three of us we knew so many of the other US teams.
Around 3:45 AM we get turned around at a junction a few miles before West Forks because we can't figure out if we are already at West Forks or not. We are all exhausted from running/jogging on mud trails for 7 hours. It starts to get light, so I suggest we just float the rest of the way in packrafts, but no one wants to get wet or have their packraft destroyed on the rocks. We finally get into town and start seeing several other teams struggling to find points, some dejected that they won't have enough time to finish their mandatory points. We are still fresh and have some time, but only decide to get one easy point, a peninsula at the convergence of the 2 rivers. From this point we see the water level is low. We take the road in to the finish, jogging by several teams. At this point, my feet start to fall apart from being soaked for 12 hours. The flat terrain of the road starts causing all my hotspots to blister, and by the time we finish, I am barely able to hobble across the finish.
Overall, happy that we got to see most of the race course, and that the 3 of us stayed and worked well together despite never having met before. It was interesting that among the three of us we knew so many of the other US teams.