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Sunday Jul 24, 2011 #
10 AM
RTNX race 14 [3]
14hrs
Hold onto your hats this is going to be a long one.....or 6.
The start of the Raid the North Extreme XPD race in Canada. I was racing with Eoin Keith (Irish AR), Thomas Etter (USA) and Nick Harper (Accelerate) as Team BRAT (#4) in RTNX which was advertised as a 6 day non stop proper wilderness XPD in the Rockies.
The race started at 10am with a beast of a climb (1500m?) on bike up a mountain.
We carried our trek kit as there was only a bike drop at the top, not transition, then it was onto the first trek. Our first taste of things to come!
Started off fairly well on the straight line down the 1500m to a creek on the other side of the mountain and when we found ourselves with Team Technu (and another team Thomas knew) we were extremely happy, knowing they were likely to do very well. We pressed on up the creek toing and froing with the 2 teams. Then night happened and the 'track' ended.....in a bush....and another bush...then another bush....we probably moved at a rate of around 500m per hour here....
Hold onto your hats this is going to be a long one.....or 6.
The start of the Raid the North Extreme XPD race in Canada. I was racing with Eoin Keith (Irish AR), Thomas Etter (USA) and Nick Harper (Accelerate) as Team BRAT (#4) in RTNX which was advertised as a 6 day non stop proper wilderness XPD in the Rockies.
The race started at 10am with a beast of a climb (1500m?) on bike up a mountain.
We carried our trek kit as there was only a bike drop at the top, not transition, then it was onto the first trek. Our first taste of things to come!
Started off fairly well on the straight line down the 1500m to a creek on the other side of the mountain and when we found ourselves with Team Technu (and another team Thomas knew) we were extremely happy, knowing they were likely to do very well. We pressed on up the creek toing and froing with the 2 teams. Then night happened and the 'track' ended.....in a bush....and another bush...then another bush....we probably moved at a rate of around 500m per hour here....