Triangle Adventure Racing Team

All in all we had a very good race….we finished 5th of 45 entries and 1st in the 3 person team category at 8HR 47MIN. The race started out with us plotting UTM points and then going out on foot after them, all the markers had a code which upon completing the course had to be deciphered into a word….we cracked the code pretty quick and started on the boat leg in fourth place..we linked a two person kayak and a solo kayak together and moved pretty well….lost a couple places to some duos in two person boats but otherwise held our own…it was a seriously cool boat leg…even had two dolphins follow us for about a 1/2 mile or so, seemed curious about what we were doing……the boat leg gave way to the bike transition..and we had some options to pursue some bike check-points or ride straight line to another very long 0-course (6 points=10miles) this consisted of us having to triangulate our Checkpoints from known points on the map…while my team-mate plotted…I took up the task of throwing a tomahawk into a board about 6ft away….after 5 or 6 throws…I stuck it and we took off running…..

We made a wise choice in going straight to the running with fresh legs, because we needed it all to push through and keep in contact with the top teams…one marker was up a tree requiring a decent climbing effort..one up a rope ladder…and one required a swim across a 10 foot creek……after clearing the course we set back out on the bikes to collect the bike points and ended up totaling 30.9 miles on the bikes….had a bit of trouble with one point but it didn’t really hurt us in the end as we were able to keep moving fast and took some shortcuts that just made sense to us in looking over the course….I would definitely recommend this race or any of the Kandoadventure series races……and oh yeah..won a set of Maxxis MTB tires during the awards….pretty sweet….