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10th Oct Rides AKA Umm...darn I chased the wrong person..
I was part of a 5 woman team for the Collie Adventure Race (http://sites.google.com/site/colliem...adventure-race) and thoroughly enjoyed meself.
Collie's 3 hrs SW of Perth & has some pretty good road hills plus some awesome mtn biking so I thought..why not? What I really wondered was if I could maintain a reasonable pace over two sections after a break between them.
I have a funny story though..There were two 5 stage female teams entered & I thought they were team number 56..So there I was at the start & saw that the cyclist for team 56 was riding a hybrid. My immediate thought was " AGHGH..I must beat this person. I can't let anyone riding a hybrid beat me :rolleyes:" (i'm not super competitive, I swear) We started in 10 sec intervals & immediately zipped off BUT knew I had to pace myself somehow. The woman passed me but then I overtook her on a hill & just kept mozying it. The hills were a bit steep but very manageable. I kept telling myself, don't look back, just keep at it & you'll beat this other person. The 1/2 way point was at the power station (collie's known for it's power station) and didn't see the rider I wanted to stay ahead of so I zipped it down the hill. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee was all I could think..kept mozying along & did the 27km in 1hr 10min, which is good for me! :o ( So glad I did a warm up ride earlier in the morning!!!)
Next stages were kayak & then swim. Interesting note about our very young swimmer that we found out in the day..She's part of the state swim team :o:eek:..I was amazed that she did the 1km course in 14min :o Which meant I was one of the first to go off on the mtb leg...Eeeee...
The dirt leg was 24km & had heard it was undulating, non technical and a bit sandy. A bit sandy( in particular sections) was not the word!!!:eek: Of the two bike courses, this was the harder one for me. I don't know if it's not being 100% sure of my tubeless tire pressure, my food, my legs or something else but i'm always madame slow. Anyways, the hills were not as bad as some I encountered on a mtb event last month :eek: I told my team member, i'd be back in about 1hr:30..I was off by 10min..not bad for me! I would have loved some more singletrack!
We saw our runner off & zipped back to town to wait..Great lady who just started running & did two half marathons this year...
Oh yeah, about team number 56..Completely wrong team number to try and beat :rolleyes: It was team 75 and we had no hope in sheep kapoopies agains them as apparently they're mainly ironman or superduper athletes :( :o :rolleyes:
Next event is at the end of November..the 12hr which i'm still looking at doing solo :eek: :o (i'm aiming to do 8 or 9 laps)
