Saturday Nov 4 |
 | Mountainbike 7:30:00 [2] 38.0 mi (11:51 / mi) +1500m 6:33 / km | |
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| 2nd part bike... stayed in 10th, had a bad route choice (or two, hard to say) and lost a couple of spots but made it up on passing teams on the ups... started towing more and feeling stronger... |
| Orienteering 32:00 [3] 2.0 mi (15:59 / mi) +10m 9:47 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Diez Vista #2 |
| fast 12CP orienteering section |
| Mountainbike 1:30:00 [3] 16.0 mi (5:37 / mi) +100m 3:26 / km | |
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| Fast paceline ride to finish... could not believe we beat all those strong teams.... |
Friday Nov 3 |
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| Golite UASRA National Championship: Raced with Eric Bone and Julie Heidt as MerGeo.com, and finished 8th overall of about 50 teams nationwide, so needless to say we had a good race. There were many small problems (got stuck behind slow teams on coasteering section and up first bikewhack, two (?) poor bingo route choices, a deflated sevylor and eric's three capsizings surf entries... but our positives were overwhelming with a phantastic trek (thanks to team revo that told us CP6 was misplaced) and fast TAs, and even better a great finish with fast moving sections. Eric did a usual great job naviating and moving the team along for the first half, me the second, and julie kept plugging along... probably the best race I have done so far. (will update log correctly once eric is back and i have the exact splits) |
| Trail Run 1:00:00 [3] 5.0 mi (11:59 / mi) +30m 7:19 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Lenona Divide #2 |
| Coasteering Section... around 30th place |
| Paddling 2:30:00 [2] 8.5 mi (17:38 / mi) | |
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| Sevylor kayaking section out in the ocean, paddled by kevin costners boat after almost running across his lawn... speaking of exotic animals we also saw pelicans and seals while paddling... 30th place stayed due to erics triple boat crash and my bad seating position.. disappointing... |
| Mountainbike 2:00:00 [3] 10.0 mi (11:59 / mi) +1000m 5:41 / km | |
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| to trek.. a lot of it was hike a bike... after we passed a lot of slow teams we were hauling... to 24th place |
| Trail Run 4:00:00 [2] 10.0 mi (24:00 / mi) +1000m 11:23 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Diez Vista #2 |
| SPANKED the trek... lucky that Revo told us that CP6 was misplaced... a tragedy really that this happens at a USARA championship, went from 24th to 5th place |
| Mountainbike 8:30:00 [2] 35.0 mi (14:33 / mi) +2000m 7:41 / km | |
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| 1st part bike... got passed by a couple of strong bike teams... erics handlebar light crapped out and so did my jetlight... bad luck... 10th place |
| Mountainbike 30:00 [1] 5.0 mi (6:00 / mi) | |
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| ride to the start with our mountain bikes, full expedition size packs with all the food, clothes, lights, and extra bags for the kayaking equipment.. that at 5 AM, nothing about this race was easy, even getting to the start... |
Thursday Nov 2 |
| Run 15:00 [3] 1.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Lenona Divide #2 |
| evening run to the hotel and back because of various things eric needed... |
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| C • You make it sound like I'm a j... 4 |