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Friday Oct 11, 2013 #
Event: Checkpoint Tracker Nationals
orienteering 30:00:00 [3]
Down to Knoxville with Vince
Started on bikes up a mountain side to get 9 checkpoints. We foolishly spent an hour looking for a checkpoint that was clearly not there. Not until 5 other teams joined the hunt did we give up. Annoying.
Back down the mountain, Vince did shooting and I picked up 2 more bike-0 checkpoints.
Then back up the mountains - took the better part of 3 hours to get up the long way. I crashed once and bust my cable to front derailleur. Surprisingly, this was not that catastrophic. But the riding was killing me - odometer said over 125km of riding.
We started into the foot orienteering determined to gain some ground on the leaders. Knocked off the first checkpoint at dusk, then it got dark and we spent an hour each on the next 2 controls and came up empty. spent another hour on the 4th and finally found it, then came up blank on the 5th. Dismayed, we walked back without trying the rest of the checkpoints in this section.
The riding was not fun - it was a 4-wheeler park.
We rode down to the river and began the paddle on the Tennessee River. 2km we ran into a fog bank, still dark, and could not see 10ft in front of us. I had to take bearings and watch the compass every 4 strokes to make sure we were on track through the snaking river. Fog finally lifted after 2 hours of this - crazy!
The paddle was a real slog - I felt weak, inadequate training and the pounding from the mountain biking. we stopped in at the cave, which i thought was cool but Vince thought was unimpressive. We did 2 more orienteering controls, then finished the paddle into Knoxville with 1.5hrs to spare.
We zipped over on our bikes to a quarry. I did the jump into the lake (race highlight, so refreshing) then orienteered for 2 more CPs as Vince did a rappell into the lake.
Back to town and through an underground tunnel system (aka sewer) to final CP and finish.
Race lacked the polish we are accustomed to from Bob and Sean but was an interesting adventure for sure.
And to top it off - that makes it Team Vince & Chad - 2 and Team Tecnu - 0. Not that we're keeping track ;-)
Started on bikes up a mountain side to get 9 checkpoints. We foolishly spent an hour looking for a checkpoint that was clearly not there. Not until 5 other teams joined the hunt did we give up. Annoying.
Back down the mountain, Vince did shooting and I picked up 2 more bike-0 checkpoints.
Then back up the mountains - took the better part of 3 hours to get up the long way. I crashed once and bust my cable to front derailleur. Surprisingly, this was not that catastrophic. But the riding was killing me - odometer said over 125km of riding.
We started into the foot orienteering determined to gain some ground on the leaders. Knocked off the first checkpoint at dusk, then it got dark and we spent an hour each on the next 2 controls and came up empty. spent another hour on the 4th and finally found it, then came up blank on the 5th. Dismayed, we walked back without trying the rest of the checkpoints in this section.
The riding was not fun - it was a 4-wheeler park.
We rode down to the river and began the paddle on the Tennessee River. 2km we ran into a fog bank, still dark, and could not see 10ft in front of us. I had to take bearings and watch the compass every 4 strokes to make sure we were on track through the snaking river. Fog finally lifted after 2 hours of this - crazy!
The paddle was a real slog - I felt weak, inadequate training and the pounding from the mountain biking. we stopped in at the cave, which i thought was cool but Vince thought was unimpressive. We did 2 more orienteering controls, then finished the paddle into Knoxville with 1.5hrs to spare.
We zipped over on our bikes to a quarry. I did the jump into the lake (race highlight, so refreshing) then orienteered for 2 more CPs as Vince did a rappell into the lake.
Back to town and through an underground tunnel system (aka sewer) to final CP and finish.
Race lacked the polish we are accustomed to from Bob and Sean but was an interesting adventure for sure.
And to top it off - that makes it Team Vince & Chad - 2 and Team Tecnu - 0. Not that we're keeping track ;-)