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How to begin.... phew!
DFL in an adventure race, who d have thought i get to see that one day... hehehe, long story very short:
Wicked Urban 6-12h race:
1) Ran good, then paddled hard to keep up with DART to the 2nd TA, William's inline performance was more than questionable, he hurt himself on a fall caused by trying to herd him along in the torrent downpour, we got cut off by a freight train while DART and Everest just made it past, the train stopped for a long time so we decided to climb over it (totally safe, there were ladders across), behind there was a cop coming from a water plant and pulled 3 teams that did that over, threatened to throw us in jail (apparently a misdemeanor type 1), after long (1h+) waits in the rain, hypothermic and exhausted she let us go, Shane was nice to not DQ us but give us the last+1min penalty.. so we decided to race on hard (was only maybe 1/4 of the race), ended up winning the stairclimb award (15 floors up and down a building) and each won a pair of runnign shoes... rest is history.. good performance, bad luck... oh well.. this will be a memory-keeper...
Run 14:00 [3] 2.0 mi (7:00 / mi)
shoes: Asics SDI
1st leg to spread people out
Paddling 1:03:00 [3] 6.0 mi (10:30 / mi)
little over an hour paddle... was fine other than that our skeg broke after 10 minutes.. harder paddling without to straighten the boat..
Inlineskate 40:00 [2] 5.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
that was about 3h of waiting for the train, then the incident with the cop, and then riding the train back to the city which was part of the race.. not much workout...
Run 20:00 [3] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Diez Vista #2
that was part3 and included a run, rappel, run, special event (running up 15 floors and down) and another run
Run 4:51 [4] 0.4 km (12:07 / km) +197ft 6:56 / km
fire escape type stairclimb up and down... we were hauling ass after our terrible day thus far, georgia was holding on to my pack for some extra speed.. at the top we did not know the time counted up and down so we lost about 10sec there but we were still 20 sec ahead of 2nd place team fortunately.. nice, a pair of la fuma goretex running shoes for each team member!
Run 1:21:00 [3] 7.0 mi (11:34 / mi) +656ft 10:38 / mi
shoes: Montrail Diez Vista #2
metro-gaine style running part 4
Roadbiking 3:00:00 [2] 24.0 mi (7:30 / mi) +1312ft 7:08 / mi
lotsa roadbike navigation at the end of the race.. fun, but rather long sprint race... was glad to get there just before they started giving away swags and prices.. not the "usual" race for
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