Training Archive: Fat RatIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-30:
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Saturday Sep 29 | ||
| Event: Oceania Champs Carnival | ||
| Adventure Race race (CityChase World Final) 3:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR 7 | ||
| Never been so scared in my life as standing on the ledge of the window that we jumpedd from... cant wait to see the Nat Geo show.
After a few morning activities and organisational adjustments to timings our time behind the Canadian leaders was cut fro 64 to 30min. (I don't know why the timings up to the previous night were kept and were seemingly not kept at any other time in the race other than the main concern was the filming, not an actual race, but we knew it would be like that) So we took off from Nemi and raced really well to the finish, except for the very end. We were actually only 50m behind the Candians with about 200m to go. But we didnt see where they went and the official pointing the way seemed to disappear as we approached (presumably to watch the Candians). We turned by mistake into the metro and lost a few minutes dicking around. Then realised and ran up the stairs to the finish. Its hard to claim its a race, but it kinda is. But what it was/is is an extraordinary experience that tests your physical, emotional and mental boundaries. Its also an experience that brings you closer to people and you make friends from around the world that wouldnt occur in any other type of race. | ||
| C • nice one 11 | ||
Friday Sep 28 | ||
| Adventure Race race (CityChase World Final) 6:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR 7 | ||
| Had a bit of a poor start to the day, actually it was a crap day for us and why we eventually lost the race.
First task was an obstacle course on the beach in mankinis and in the end we lacked the strength to do this and paid a little bit time-wise. Since the English are weaklings too we completed the task near them and rode (the wrong way) in to our now infamous arrest. After the Fashion show all teams were more or less started together. We reached the kayaks with the Canadians in the lead and had a reasonable paddle (2nd out behind Hong Kong) uckily as after falling in the water several times without going anywhere they changed boats for us. We then made a mistake and waited for the Canadians to rn with them. We then ran to a restaurant, reaching it with the those teams and the Portugese. We then lost time in recruiting our diners (we had to recruit people off the street to eat for free) and then were sabotaged when a massive plate of bruschetta was placed on our diners table. Unfortunately for us they were relly hungry and wanted the plate to stay and wanted to enjoy their experience. So we left the restaurant in 4th place, 25min behind Canada and through the rest of the race were never able to catch them (in fact they extended their lead going in to the night, I suspect mainly due to the raising of foreign currency in Piazza Navona faster than us). The day also saw th departure of one the biggest threats - Portugal. They refused to get the tattoo, although they were a fair way behind at the time. | ||
Thursday Sep 27 | ||
| Event: CityChase World Final | ||
| Adventure Race race (CityChase World Final) 3:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR 7 | ||
| The race started unexpectedly quickly and we didnt really pack everything we needed. I even thought/hoped we would revisit our gear later that night in a hotel or something. But we didnt see our bag for 3 days.
Race went without any surprises today, at the time the race came to its first major hault (at the Gladiator school) we finished with the Portugese who were impressive ARers in first, 30min ahead of the next team, and 2.5 hours ahead of Canada. But it was a tv event, and that meant that this, as well as other time leads we held counted for nothing. Craney wrote a good report on his AP, so best to read about the race there. Andy and I will write a report later which will probably end up on the Stingers page. http://www.attackpoint.org/weeklyactivity.jsp/user... | ||
Wednesday Sep 26 | ||
| Run 57:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 6 | ||
| Ran from hotel to Imperial Forum then down to the old baths (Cancellara). Felt pretty good finally. Was just nice to run really.
Saw the US team being interviewed by Citychase so dropped in to say hi. They same pretty cool and switched on. | ||