Training Log Archive: peterprong

long ride with some big hills that everyone pushed their bikes up and lost time at the start looking for bonus cps. Cross the island on the road then down some rough single track to a village and across to survivor beach. Back up a huge hill to then drop back down to a bike drop while dropping some compulsory cps on the way to the bike boxes to make the time cuttoff. Diabolical out rigging (wading while pushing the canoe as we couldnt work out how to do it properly) (Meyer 2010)..
Spent a little while filling up on food and cooling down in the water during what i thought was an untimed section. This however screwed us later.
We could only find one of the 6 compulsory CPs on the outriggers, so in the 90min we were swimming and pushing the boat we lost 2.5hrs..(i think they dropped this leg out of the final standings.
We now didnt have enough time to complete the whole on land rogaine, to make sure we didnt get more penalties for missing the finish cut off.
I completed the untimed rope climb and an abseil while ben showed his aim in archery and snorkelling orienteering skills.
Still finished the day in 3rd.

Event: Race Vanuatu
 

Easy group ride escorted by the police to the start of the prologue

Cool prologue around the village of Mele and the upper cascades. All teams lost time with the maps and there was a cool section where some local kids lead us around to help find the controls. Finished with 'Lazy' dave 'cramp man' meyer and Steven 'Steveo' Todkill at the end. (Meyer 2010)