Aldo and I took part in the Kathmandu Adventure race last Saturday. The weather forecast was slightly on the diabolical side, but to our great relief it turned out to be a nice and sunny day for this race in the Royal National Park.
I think we did around about 35 km in 5 hours and 6 minutes and 27 seconds, but fatigue didn't set in until early evening, with Sunday spending most of the day in recovery (lucky that Aldo's soccer was cancelled!!!
We had to pass 20 checkpoints in total; first up we did about 10km on foot, up a steep hill then around the plateau (for the locals up the Honeymoon track, past the old visitor centre, temptation creek, loftus oval back down to Audley), then a quick transition to the kayaks (including filling up backpack with Mars bars - but you can't really eat or drink when you are kayaking anyway - so extra weight for nothing!). This was followed by a long transition to the bikes, then up/down the Lady carrington cycle way, trying to find checkpoints marked on the 1:25000 map wasn't that simple and we made sure we didn't overshot - would have cost way too much energy to go back......after nearly 2 hours on the bike (at which stage many of the other bikes had been collected by other competitors who were already on their way home (the fastest took 2.5 hours - insane!), our last transition was to the canoe station. That was a lot of fun, with the sun reflecting beautifully on the very calm river. We finally made it back, about 5th last in a field of about 200 !!
Anyway, it feels great to have actually finished the race, as we did this on the back of hardly any training !!
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I got tired just reading your account!
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