Saturday Aug 11 |
 | Adventure Racing 10:00:00 [4] | |
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| The Angry Seagull Adventure Race with La Femme and Dog Runner. It was a hot day and after a small trail run and a couple of CP's in the bush we ran into the TA in first place with the next two teams hot on our tails. A 25km road/trail ride followed where I almost lost my saddle due to a loose screw but we were quick enough to tighten it before anyone showed up at the next CP. In and out of the TA again we were onto a 25km trail run with some CP's along the way. Due to the fact that we were getting instructions for the next section at each TA and the maps didn't have any grid lines on them I had incorrectly plotted some of the CP's - oops. One of them was at the wrong UTM but the description was accurate so after 20 minutes of searching we located it just as the next two teams ran by. We hid in the bush and when they were gone we continued along the trail. I didn't want to do the work for them and I knew if we ended up seeing them and got in a conversation I would have given up that we had located it after all. So over the rest of the trail run we managed to open up an hour or so on the next team. It was hot though and we were all feeling pretty ill. Over the whole racecourse we didn't eat very much at all.
On to the bikes again we rode country roads and rail trail up north toward the canoe put-in on the Grand River. We pushed pretty hard in this section and as night fell we made it to the next TA to find out that the canoes weren't there yet. So we TA'd as fast as we could and then rested for 21 minutes before the canoes arrived.....and this is where the fun began! |
Thursday Aug 9 |
| Trail Running 1:05:00 [3] | |
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| Solo run on the HVT (0 and 1) and some roads around home... |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Road Riding 1:10:00 [3] | |
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| With Phatty around Caledon. My right hamstring is still bothering me from Extreme. Maybe I should get it worked on, now there is a novel idea! |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Trail Running 1:26:00 [3] | |
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| HVT run with Bash and Rocky. Rocky took us on some new trails (and some not so much trails) to another part of the Humber Valley. Great to get on some new terrain. Amazed at how dry it is.....Fun run with the girls. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| Paddling 3:00:00 [2] | |
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| The final day of the canoe trip out of the Moon River and into Georgian Bay. Good thing we decided to camp where we did since there were so many people down river. Portaged around some pretty cool canyons and then out into the flat rock characteristic of Georgian Bay. A little cloudy today - much to the relief of Hansel and Phatty who got some pretty good sunburns the previous two days. Great trip with great company.....wish I could stay up north all summer. |
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| C • Burns? 2 |
Sunday Aug 5 |
| Paddling 2:30:00 [1] | |
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| Left camp after jumping in and out of the rapids, following water snakes, watching Hansel check himself for leaches and paddled up river to the Seven Sisters rapids so we could run some of them. The water level was quite low but we all sacrificed the canoes for a little action in the moving water. Nothing too exciting but Dog Runner still hollered like it was
class III. Passed a group of drunken teenage boys who thought it was a good idea to paddle the river drunk, cliff jump along the way, and then leave their empties all along the river......infuriating! Phatty almost dumped their canoe when they tried to T-bone us but they didn't quite go over.....too bad! |