Multi-Sport RacingTriathalons and Adventure Racing have been sweeping the nation at a phenomenal rate. Multi-Sport Racing is one of the few sports where just completing a race is often considered a victory. Learn all about this sport, post photos, meet potential teammates or brag about your performance in a race.
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1) The team (from left to right), Denise, me (JP), Matt, Terron, and support team Holly, plotting our course.
2-4) Random canoeing shots... some fun rapids.
5-8) The mountain bike leg of the race, approaching the finish line, and sporting our medals for finishing the course. Its MILLER TIME!
Notice the bandage around my right calf on the last shot. Grizzly injury actually. I crashed at one point, and the sprocket ripped open a pretty nasty series of holes in my calf, pulling out fascia and blood. I scraped off as much fatty tissue as I could and did some quick first aid and was back up to finish the course in a matter of minutes, but fate was not smiling on us that day... I also had two flats that cost us 5 positions on the mountain bike section. I should have a nice little scar off that one. It looks like I have a roughly hewn zipper on my calf for taking out my calf implants! The medic snipped off the rest of the fat hanging out, but didn't want to do stitches because I had so much grease and grime crammed down into the wound by the sprocket, so instead I have to irrigate it a few times a day and take antibiotics. It may behoove me to get a tetanis shot as well!
All in all, a very tough course. Just glad we finished, AND we hit every checkpoint (many teams skipped checkpoints, taking the 2 hour time penalty).
Normally, but this time we all shared in the map reading debacle. The maps were hard to read. No grid lines, so we have to draw our own, then plot off of that point. This lack of experience cost us many hours. One checkpoint we actually transposed a couple of digits, plotting for a .80 instead of a .08, which took us an entire kilometer off course and cost us 4 hours. That wasnt' the only screwup that day though. What the average teams were finishing in 8-9 hours, took us 19 hours of bushwhacking and wandering through some pretty heavy underbrush on steep ridges. It was kind of a nightmare. We did much better on the day we did the bike section.
TS, I would have never jammed that pencil in your calf if it wasn't for that damned annoying avatar. And quit whining... At least it was freshly sharpened so it went in a lot easier. Jeez, some folks would bitch if you hanged them with a new rope!
Okay JP & Sarah - We need a good play by play of the race. How were the various disciplines set up? What went right, what went wrong and how would you do it differently. I'll see if I can find any other race reports and post them.
Joe
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Originally posted by Jean-Paul: Photo descriptions as follows:
1) The team (from left to right), Denise, me (JP), Matt, Terron, and support team Holly, plotting our course.
2-4) Random canoeing shots... some fun rapids.
5-8) The mountain bike leg of the race, approaching the finish line, and sporting our medals for finishing the course. Its MILLER TIME!
Notice the bandage around my right calf on the last shot. Grizzly injury actually. I crashed at one point, and the sprocket ripped open a pretty nasty series of holes in my calf, pulling out fascia and blood. I scraped off as much fatty tissue as I could and did some quick first aid and was back up to finish the course in a matter of minutes, but fate was not smiling on us that day... I also had two flats that cost us 5 positions on the mountain bike section. I should have a nice little scar off that one. It looks like I have a roughly hewn zipper on my calf for taking out my calf implants! The medic snipped off the rest of the fat hanging out, but didn't want to do stitches because I had so much grease and grime crammed down into the wound by the sprocket, so instead I have to irrigate it a few times a day and take antibiotics. It may behoove me to get a tetanis shot as well!
All in all, a very tough course. Just glad we finished, AND we hit every checkpoint (many teams skipped checkpoints, taking the 2 hour time penalty).
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