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Saturday Feb 20, 2010 #
Orienteering race 2:58:00 [4]
Good race with nik felt tired in the last hour.
Monday Feb 15, 2010 #
Adventure Racing race 19:00:00 [4]
The trek started with an up hill climb to a small town. At the town we then had to find another trail that headed up further. If I remember correctly we basically were going to climb from something like 1500m up to 3700m. As we tried to find the trail we ran into a man carrying a rather large machete. Figuring we were probably walking all over his land we went over and showed him the map. He didn't say anything, but just turned around and pointed up hill. Yup that's where we got to go. Up. Finding the trail we started to climb up hill. Further we went the more overgrown the trail became and the more the view became stunning. Something like 5 hours later we reached the top. Even though Audrey tried to cut it short by falling down a 20 ft gully, which luckily she was ok after (damn tough that woman is).
At the top we made our way into town, where the team ahead of us was sitting and had dropped out. One of the guys on their team showed us his altimeter which was showing at that point we're already climbed 8.5 K. Off again to the next check point I found it really tough to follow the map from here. Luckily they had positioned some of the emergency personal along the course to give teams a hand because it was rather tricky to find your way in this area. In the end we ended up walking out with the emergency staff as they were clearing the course. This was a lot of fun becuase we got to learn some more about them and the area. They even made us tea from a herb on the ground that was meant to help with altitude sickness (if only I could remember it's name). Through the last CP we had a slow gradual down hill along a road into the last TA.
At this point I was done. Looking at the clock it was late afternoon and we still had 110K bike to the finish area ahead of us. They never set cut-offs in the race, but if we knew if we kept biking we'd be racing for another day, basically the only team still out on the course. We spoke with the race officials and they offered us a chance to short cut this bike to the finish and go back and paddle. We took this as I don't think any of us thought we could finish this bike.
A drive to the finish and a short paddle around the lake , then a short run to the finish and we were done. Huarisinchi had given us a pretty amazing adventure, but it also kicked our asses so hard hard. This is probably the hardest thing I've ever done.
Looking back I have mixed feelings because we never were really competitive in the race a mix of the altitude and the size of the mountains. Also we didn't finish the whole course. At the same time we got an unbelievable adventure, saw some amazing things and I remember how much I didn't want to do that trek and we did it, so I have to remember some monsters were conquered during this race.
At the top we made our way into town, where the team ahead of us was sitting and had dropped out. One of the guys on their team showed us his altimeter which was showing at that point we're already climbed 8.5 K. Off again to the next check point I found it really tough to follow the map from here. Luckily they had positioned some of the emergency personal along the course to give teams a hand because it was rather tricky to find your way in this area. In the end we ended up walking out with the emergency staff as they were clearing the course. This was a lot of fun becuase we got to learn some more about them and the area. They even made us tea from a herb on the ground that was meant to help with altitude sickness (if only I could remember it's name). Through the last CP we had a slow gradual down hill along a road into the last TA.
At this point I was done. Looking at the clock it was late afternoon and we still had 110K bike to the finish area ahead of us. They never set cut-offs in the race, but if we knew if we kept biking we'd be racing for another day, basically the only team still out on the course. We spoke with the race officials and they offered us a chance to short cut this bike to the finish and go back and paddle. We took this as I don't think any of us thought we could finish this bike.
A drive to the finish and a short paddle around the lake , then a short run to the finish and we were done. Huarisinchi had given us a pretty amazing adventure, but it also kicked our asses so hard hard. This is probably the hardest thing I've ever done.
Looking back I have mixed feelings because we never were really competitive in the race a mix of the altitude and the size of the mountains. Also we didn't finish the whole course. At the same time we got an unbelievable adventure, saw some amazing things and I remember how much I didn't want to do that trek and we did it, so I have to remember some monsters were conquered during this race.