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Saturday Nov 21, 2009 #
Event: Fat Otter Fall Sprint
Adventure Racing race 4:13:00 [5]
shoes: Nort face
Fat Otter Fall Sprint - Palos Hills, IL
Team Huckleberries - with Greg
Very fun sprint adventure race organized by team fat otter. great job Rod & team.
This was my very first sprint AR, so I was not exactly prepared for the pace. Which means I still made my sandwitches (this time only pbj), got a few sets of clothes to change in, hats, jackets and so on. Not to mention I didn't need or use any of that. Only food consumption was a few gels and ... oh, yeah, cough drops. For more than a week I had a cold with bad cough and other minor common cold bonuses. However, we still decided to go.
So we got there with plenty time to spare, as they didn't give any information out before the race meeting. So, first time ever, I actually had time to set everything up... and plenty twiddling thumbs after.
Got the skinny during the race meeting, and off we wnet on the first leg:
1) short O, to get one control up the hill. From my previous races I have learned i can;t focus on first thing, so I just followed the crowd for a while till I figured they were going to the wrong hill, so veered left and joined
melaine and her teams to hit the first control. return to TA. (the parking lot was the only TA)
2) got back in the first half teams, so we got to kayak first. I was already positive, as we didn't mess up and we were quite at the top after first challenge. We biked to maple lake, ang got on the lake probably the 10th team or so(out of 40). I knew last year i did so bad steering the kayak, so first loop greg was in the back and i had no worries, as he's an excellent paddler. But they had us swicth after 1st loop, so i thought, sinusoidal here i come. we already saw a team of 2 guys who kept slaloming the whole time... which is funny to watch when you're not it. well, somehow, we kept a pretty straight line, I figure greg was helping from the front, but did not have the heart to tell me :) Anyway, we made awesome progress, passed a few teams, no-one passed us. we ended up with second best time overall paddling. Biked back to TA and remembered to get a robitussin dose as my cough was getting bad.
To be continued... in a few days
Team Huckleberries - with Greg
Very fun sprint adventure race organized by team fat otter. great job Rod & team.
This was my very first sprint AR, so I was not exactly prepared for the pace. Which means I still made my sandwitches (this time only pbj), got a few sets of clothes to change in, hats, jackets and so on. Not to mention I didn't need or use any of that. Only food consumption was a few gels and ... oh, yeah, cough drops. For more than a week I had a cold with bad cough and other minor common cold bonuses. However, we still decided to go.
So we got there with plenty time to spare, as they didn't give any information out before the race meeting. So, first time ever, I actually had time to set everything up... and plenty twiddling thumbs after.
Got the skinny during the race meeting, and off we wnet on the first leg:
1) short O, to get one control up the hill. From my previous races I have learned i can;t focus on first thing, so I just followed the crowd for a while till I figured they were going to the wrong hill, so veered left and joined
melaine and her teams to hit the first control. return to TA. (the parking lot was the only TA)
2) got back in the first half teams, so we got to kayak first. I was already positive, as we didn't mess up and we were quite at the top after first challenge. We biked to maple lake, ang got on the lake probably the 10th team or so(out of 40). I knew last year i did so bad steering the kayak, so first loop greg was in the back and i had no worries, as he's an excellent paddler. But they had us swicth after 1st loop, so i thought, sinusoidal here i come. we already saw a team of 2 guys who kept slaloming the whole time... which is funny to watch when you're not it. well, somehow, we kept a pretty straight line, I figure greg was helping from the front, but did not have the heart to tell me :) Anyway, we made awesome progress, passed a few teams, no-one passed us. we ended up with second best time overall paddling. Biked back to TA and remembered to get a robitussin dose as my cough was getting bad.
To be continued... in a few days
Wednesday Nov 18, 2009 #
Note
(sick)
Still recovering from cold. I will be mellow like a jelly fish for this race.