Adventure Racing (TEVA) 3:59:00 [3]
slept:6.0
Not sure about time.Thanks to Cath and Karen for a fun day and a good result! Thanks to Dalto for great pizza and beer and couch after. Congratulations to all fellow teams for their excellent races :)
Cath cruised her way through the shuttle run and stopped just after getting us into the second wave. We had a good start, which lasted about 1min, before I stupidly let the mass start fluster me and we followed the pack down the wrong track. Realised relatively quickly, found the first control then went wrong again. Did a heap of bush-bashing and once we were back on track got to TA1 without further incident. We must have lost 15-20 min but were still the third team there!
The TV thingo wasn't as bad as it could have been. I got 5, guessed 2 and sang one to cath and karen. We decided not to make any errors on the orienteering, but were foiled by the event organisers who put one in the wrong spot. Wasted a heap of time there, and ended up having to get all the controls to make up for it. By this time we were waaay back in the field, and even though we were smooth on the bike leg (finally!) there was another girls' team at transition. Bugger...
Did a superquick bungee challenge ("You can get extra points by...." "No thanks". "But you can do this...." "No thanks.") then ran off to get two controls to get our tent money. Luckily we had heard the bit about facing north - the team next to us didn't and got pretty wet :-)
As we got back on the bikes the other girls' team ran in, so we had a good lead on them.
Clean to TA3, pretty quick symbol challenge, we all nailed the team time trial (I did the bike, and got back in about 3min, due to spending the whole time thinking "what would lance armstrong do?" - but the other two beat me easily!)
Clean back to the finish, where we were behind some people who should not have been ahead of us but thankfully still won. We didn't deserve it, after our monumental first-leg failure, but it would have been embarrassing not to!
Very different racing in a girls' team - I did all the MTB nav, and didn't kill myself trying to keep up for a change!
Good fun.