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Saturday Jul 19, 2014 #
6 AM
Adventure Race 15:50:00 [3] 116.0 mi (8:11 / mi)
CT Day 3,
TREK 1, CP37, 1mi
we had a short road run to the put-in. we were in 4th about a 1/2mi down the road when we were talking and realized we did not punch the "start of day" control. debated for a hot second if that was mandatory or a formality, and decided we had to backtrack just in case. got the punch, but that put us behind a few teams. this was potentially bad bc boats had to be launched in groups of 8 and we didn't want to get stuck waiting too long. so we ran hard to the put-in and made it sandwiched in between 2 other 4-person teams so we thought we were good.
PADDLE 1, CP37, 15mi
...except now the river company was launching in groups of 16 (2 boats at a time for safety) and we only had 12. CRAP. waited around, but luckily another 4-person team showed up and were able to get on the water without too much more delay. the water was fun, not too cold, except we had a difficult time motivating the other team in our boat to paddle hard. that, and our guide was calling for "rest breaks" which rocky33 gave him a death stare each time.
BIKE 1, CPs 39-40, 38mi
we were anxious to get on our bikes before the temps started climbing. quick TA w bins, hopped on my bike, and i freaked bc something was NOT RIGHT. i honestly thought i had someone else's bike. turns out when i disassembled the crank yesterday, i put it back together wrong so the arms were not aligned. whoops! but it was a quick fix and we rolled out onto the gravel. this part of the ride went pretty well. we arrived at CP39 and realized we were carrying WAY too much water as a team so we dumped about 4L and continued on. rocky33 did a lot of extra pack carrying too. we started passing other teams from the first wave of boats so we felt redeemed after our morning delays.
TREK 1, CPs 41-43, 6mi
saw Tecnu and Columbia on their way out as we went in, that was fun! hot trek in open terrain. Space Monkey was overheating so we kept pace EZ.
BIKE 2, CPs 44-46, 50mi
we came out of the trek w Silent Chasers so convinced them to paceline w us to CP44. those miles FLEW by and thankfully we arrived at water drop in good shape. 2.5gal = 9.5L which goes a long way! Yogis were still there and left only a few minutes ahead of us, we caught them as they had a bladder malfunction, then they caught us back. the first few miles of riding together were a little tense, like no one knew if we were supposed to be mean or nice. thankfully everyone decided on nice and we got to chatting. that was fun. we each had our stops here and there for peeing/waterhole bathing/etc and eventually we had to let the Yogis go ahead. we were all in a pretty low spot around mi 40 of this ride - it had been a long and hot day. but we all kept each other eating/drinking and once we hit the pavement we had enough juice to push into TA.
TREK 2, CPs 1-10, 6mi
Hell's Half Acre. we had our fastest TA of the race and got into the canyon with a good chunk of daylight still available. super complicated terrain for a USGS map to show. Garrison struggled w the first CP but Space Monkey was able to take over and we flew through the rest of the leg. it felt like 24hr pace! we caught the Yogis around CP6 or 7 just after we had put on lights and we pushed hard to get a gap on them. kept nav clean the rest of the leg and ended up w fastest split. SO PROUD of the team here.
EOD TA
finished up just before 10pm and Rev3 had 2 hot dogs for us each! yum! some good chat w Tecnu and then final night's sleep, about 4.5hrs. slept better but still not great.
TREK 1, CP37, 1mi
we had a short road run to the put-in. we were in 4th about a 1/2mi down the road when we were talking and realized we did not punch the "start of day" control. debated for a hot second if that was mandatory or a formality, and decided we had to backtrack just in case. got the punch, but that put us behind a few teams. this was potentially bad bc boats had to be launched in groups of 8 and we didn't want to get stuck waiting too long. so we ran hard to the put-in and made it sandwiched in between 2 other 4-person teams so we thought we were good.
PADDLE 1, CP37, 15mi
...except now the river company was launching in groups of 16 (2 boats at a time for safety) and we only had 12. CRAP. waited around, but luckily another 4-person team showed up and were able to get on the water without too much more delay. the water was fun, not too cold, except we had a difficult time motivating the other team in our boat to paddle hard. that, and our guide was calling for "rest breaks" which rocky33 gave him a death stare each time.
BIKE 1, CPs 39-40, 38mi
we were anxious to get on our bikes before the temps started climbing. quick TA w bins, hopped on my bike, and i freaked bc something was NOT RIGHT. i honestly thought i had someone else's bike. turns out when i disassembled the crank yesterday, i put it back together wrong so the arms were not aligned. whoops! but it was a quick fix and we rolled out onto the gravel. this part of the ride went pretty well. we arrived at CP39 and realized we were carrying WAY too much water as a team so we dumped about 4L and continued on. rocky33 did a lot of extra pack carrying too. we started passing other teams from the first wave of boats so we felt redeemed after our morning delays.
TREK 1, CPs 41-43, 6mi
saw Tecnu and Columbia on their way out as we went in, that was fun! hot trek in open terrain. Space Monkey was overheating so we kept pace EZ.
BIKE 2, CPs 44-46, 50mi
we came out of the trek w Silent Chasers so convinced them to paceline w us to CP44. those miles FLEW by and thankfully we arrived at water drop in good shape. 2.5gal = 9.5L which goes a long way! Yogis were still there and left only a few minutes ahead of us, we caught them as they had a bladder malfunction, then they caught us back. the first few miles of riding together were a little tense, like no one knew if we were supposed to be mean or nice. thankfully everyone decided on nice and we got to chatting. that was fun. we each had our stops here and there for peeing/waterhole bathing/etc and eventually we had to let the Yogis go ahead. we were all in a pretty low spot around mi 40 of this ride - it had been a long and hot day. but we all kept each other eating/drinking and once we hit the pavement we had enough juice to push into TA.
TREK 2, CPs 1-10, 6mi
Hell's Half Acre. we had our fastest TA of the race and got into the canyon with a good chunk of daylight still available. super complicated terrain for a USGS map to show. Garrison struggled w the first CP but Space Monkey was able to take over and we flew through the rest of the leg. it felt like 24hr pace! we caught the Yogis around CP6 or 7 just after we had put on lights and we pushed hard to get a gap on them. kept nav clean the rest of the leg and ended up w fastest split. SO PROUD of the team here.
EOD TA
finished up just before 10pm and Rev3 had 2 hot dogs for us each! yum! some good chat w Tecnu and then final night's sleep, about 4.5hrs. slept better but still not great.