Adventure Racing race (Kinetic Amazingwe) 1:35:57 [3] 22.3 km (4:18 / km) +405m 3:57 / km
ahr:145 max:171 shoes: Specialized Epic Expert 2010
Raced as Team First Ascent Cyanosis with Nathan and Jane. Lots of heavy rain yesterday, so extremely muddy! Still nice, cool and overcast though.
Race started with a 1km urban sprint-o around the Amazingwe resort. Lots of fun, and it gave us a clean gap going onto the first MTB leg down to Harties. By chance, we ended up riding the exact same tracks as we ran in our team training two weeks ago. Slippery mud, overgrown grass, but fun. Did a quick paddle on the dam and saw that we had about a 4 min lead on a chasing pack of about 5 teams. Route back to Amazingwe was also fun with lots of sticky mud in places. Had to pick up the bike (+2kg of mud) and run for about 50m at one place. Final leg was a short 3km trail run on the hiking trail, with a long 100m+ flying fox over a valley.
Came home with about a 7 min lead over PJ and Johan. Good race, good teamwork. Looking forward to Expedition Africa.
Bike Stats: Tm 0:58:34, Dst 18.11, Av 18.5, Mx 46.5
Brand new S-works MTB shoes (in white!) are no longer brand new.
TE 3.3, Epoc 108. 1081 kcal.