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Monday Nov 14, 2016 #
Paddling (other) 34:11:00 [1]
(sick)
I think this time must include the caving too? Or maybe that's not anywhere.
Anyway the caving went OK. We all had sore feet and I made a real mess of trying to find one of the caves but we got it all done with about 15min to spare in the 5hr despite Bobby being pretty sick by now and having to evacuate a pretty tight squeeze rapidly for a spew.
I started to feel awful in transition and tried to convince everyone I needed a nap before we started the packraft but we were all keen to get to the river because we probably had enough time to get a significant way down before the dark zone, have a sleep and then finish by trekking the banks in the dark. This would have worked.
What actually happened was I stopped being able to move very well or think and kind of collapsed a bit. I took a long time to even find the tourist track to the first control. The others decided I had heat stroke so we stopped, thinking in a few hours with some rest and water we could get going. Unfortunately I then started spewing, then Mitch started spewing, Bobby was still shitting and then Anna started spewing. I probably felt better about midnight and Anna started getting sick at about 1am so the stop turned into 15hrs all up and we got going from our camp just outside the caving TA at about 6am.
We maybe should have got going quicker but its hard to know. We had kind of lost our mojo by then anyway. We could have kept going once I got sick but I think we probably would have ended up in a worse situation. We weren't to know anyway. I'm happy we stopped, rested and finished. If we had gone back to TA I think they would have made us pull out of the race.
Once we got moving in the morning progress was pretty painfully slow for the rest of the trek section. I didn't take the route down the slot canyon. It just never crossed my mind as being a feasible option....I guess too much time in NZ bush. The packrafting was OK once we worked out a good technique for dealing with the double hitting the bottom so much (one person just get out and walk). The single boats were much better in river but slower on the lake.
Anyway the caving went OK. We all had sore feet and I made a real mess of trying to find one of the caves but we got it all done with about 15min to spare in the 5hr despite Bobby being pretty sick by now and having to evacuate a pretty tight squeeze rapidly for a spew.
I started to feel awful in transition and tried to convince everyone I needed a nap before we started the packraft but we were all keen to get to the river because we probably had enough time to get a significant way down before the dark zone, have a sleep and then finish by trekking the banks in the dark. This would have worked.
What actually happened was I stopped being able to move very well or think and kind of collapsed a bit. I took a long time to even find the tourist track to the first control. The others decided I had heat stroke so we stopped, thinking in a few hours with some rest and water we could get going. Unfortunately I then started spewing, then Mitch started spewing, Bobby was still shitting and then Anna started spewing. I probably felt better about midnight and Anna started getting sick at about 1am so the stop turned into 15hrs all up and we got going from our camp just outside the caving TA at about 6am.
We maybe should have got going quicker but its hard to know. We had kind of lost our mojo by then anyway. We could have kept going once I got sick but I think we probably would have ended up in a worse situation. We weren't to know anyway. I'm happy we stopped, rested and finished. If we had gone back to TA I think they would have made us pull out of the race.
Once we got moving in the morning progress was pretty painfully slow for the rest of the trek section. I didn't take the route down the slot canyon. It just never crossed my mind as being a feasible option....I guess too much time in NZ bush. The packrafting was OK once we worked out a good technique for dealing with the double hitting the bottom so much (one person just get out and walk). The single boats were much better in river but slower on the lake.