Sunday Jul 6 |
 | Paddling (kayak) 2:40:00 [2] 10.0 mi (16:00 / mi) | |
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| Paddled the Phalen - Keller - Gervais - Kohlman chain. Lots of milfoil in the system, and the connecting streams were pretty choked up and gross. The lakes were nice, though, even with the excessive engine use on Gervais.
The new Epic paddle is sweet. |
Tuesday Jul 1 |
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| Finished the short course at PQ Montana - preliminary results are 31st place, 4th on short course. More to come after I get some sleep. |
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| C • U ROCK 4 |
| MTB (technical) race 7:00:00 [3] *** 18.0 mi (23:20 / mi) +600m 13:08 / km | |
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| Up into the mountains to visit the CP at Little Bear Cabin, then a further ascent over the ridge. Walked our bikes through the snow about 8000 feet. Then a fun, fast downhill on 4WD trails, again with ruts and rocks, and a lot of tight turns. Came out near Spire Rock and took the road down to the TA at Storm Castle just after the ropes cutoff time (by design, of course.) |
| Miscellaneous (transition/sleep) 3:00:00 [0] | |
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| Waiting until the 9 AM trek cutoff, then a ride over to Ennis Lake from the support crew for the last bike leg before the finish line. About a dozen other teams were doing the same thing. |
| MTB (road) race 4:30:00 [3] ** 31.0 mi (8:43 / mi) +800m 5:01 / km | |
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| Kicked it into gear on the bikes - first a flat ride around Ennis Lake, then a slow uphill approach to the Madison Range, then a highly frustrating ride through Moonlight Basin which never seemed to end. It was the bike equivalent of the Bridger Mountain trail - never flat, always up or down (mostly up.) Several teams passed us on this section, but we still did it so quickly that our support crew almost didn't make it to the finish line. It turns out most of the teams that passed us were long-course (and thus not competing against us), although their presence combined with the nearness of the finish line served to push us all a little harder. We crossed the line at Big Sky Plaza in early afternoon and were each immediately handed a beer by some random people (probably other support crew), then got a champagne shower, then had pictures. Good race all around. Everyone safe, no injuries, and we all got along well. |
Monday Jun 30 |
| Hiking race (mountain trek) 13:00:00 [3] *** | |
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| Finally we started coming down the mountain to the College "M" CP 22. After that, hike down the road to the TA at East Gallatin Rec Area. |
| Miscellaneous (transition/sleep) 6:00:00 [0] | |
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| We talked over the remaining course in TA and decided to do the short course option. This allowed us to recover lots of sleep time. We planned to start the next technical MB section around 7 PM and ride through the night. |
| MTB (road) race 5:00:00 [3] ** 30.0 mi (10:00 / mi) +300m 6:02 / km | |
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| Nice ride through Bozeman and over to Little Bear Canyon, then partway up until we hit the 4WD track. |