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Tuesday Mar 6, 2018 #
Misc 24:00:00 [3]
We stopped for 2.5hrs sleep at Freeman Burn hut. On reflection we probably should have just gambled and had less. But we really hadnt slept properly since the last darkzone and felt we had to. The hut was warm and the sleep glorious. We heard Yealands arrive and leave after about 60min of sleep and probably could have got up then and gone...maybe.... Hard to know, maybe we would have fallen to pieces.
Anyway got into the last trek which was pretty hard going a good proper trek with no track again. Awesome. Slow slow travel into the bush and very tiring mentally for the leader and physically for everyone. I had pretty sore feet, a few blisters and very sore tendon in front of ankles.
Made it through the whole trek ok although I don't think we ever picked super awesome ways through the bush on this one. Maybe there werent any. We found out at Lake Herries that Yealands were about 90min in front of us which was less than I thought (negative state of mind) but still pretty much uncatchable.
I felt pretty rubbish on the down hill with my ankles and hand hurting lots. I was feeling like I was slowing us down a bit and we made it out to the lake about 2hrs behind Yealands.
The kayak to the finish was good. I tried hard to be happy and chatty and keep everyone awake which worked well, and we paddled strongly. We finished 2nd, 2 and a bit hrs down and 8hrs in front of Tiki Tour.
Anyway got into the last trek which was pretty hard going a good proper trek with no track again. Awesome. Slow slow travel into the bush and very tiring mentally for the leader and physically for everyone. I had pretty sore feet, a few blisters and very sore tendon in front of ankles.
Made it through the whole trek ok although I don't think we ever picked super awesome ways through the bush on this one. Maybe there werent any. We found out at Lake Herries that Yealands were about 90min in front of us which was less than I thought (negative state of mind) but still pretty much uncatchable.
I felt pretty rubbish on the down hill with my ankles and hand hurting lots. I was feeling like I was slowing us down a bit and we made it out to the lake about 2hrs behind Yealands.
The kayak to the finish was good. I tried hard to be happy and chatty and keep everyone awake which worked well, and we paddled strongly. We finished 2nd, 2 and a bit hrs down and 8hrs in front of Tiki Tour.
Monday Mar 5, 2018 #
Misc 24:00:00 [3]
We had a bit of refuel stop in TA3 (maybe we should have had a sleep....) and got going after about an hour of flaffing about and eating. Too slow in TA for no sleep.
The ride was a bit of a nightmare nav wise with forestry roads doing their standard disappearing thing. It was the middle of the night and raining and it would have been much better to be sleeping now than when we had slept at Port Craig. I was near asleep on the bike and I think Stu was struggling a bit too.
We did a good job on the first bash but ended up taking the wrong bashing route on the second one (totally random choice though) and went into the gully of bushbashing doom for about an hour. Got out eventually and then made a proper nav mistake going up the wrong hill. Should have put a map on my bike as I was more awake and probably would have been more active backing up. O well, fixed the mistake well once we realised what was going on and headed out onto the main road. Probably lost 90min - 2hrs all up in here.
Road ride was good and then I was pretty smashed feeling for most of the Percy Pass section but what an awesome ride! Got some help from Stu up the hill which helped Yealands passed us on the bike carry with the slowest passing maneuver in the history of adventure racing. This got to me a bit as I was pretty keen to get onto the next trek in front of them. I think we were just too tired to move any faster. Chris was a freak going up here carrying everyones bikes past us.
Down into TA, well overdue a sleep but nowhere to sleep so pushed onto the kayak to sleep at the hut.
Paddled well and were very confused to find that we were infront of Yealands at the hut at the end of the kayak. We were convinced they were playing games with us and had snuck off to sleep on a beach somewhere or even just pretended to launch (about 10min infront of us). I certainly never believed they could have made a big nav error and we were in fact in front again!
The ride was a bit of a nightmare nav wise with forestry roads doing their standard disappearing thing. It was the middle of the night and raining and it would have been much better to be sleeping now than when we had slept at Port Craig. I was near asleep on the bike and I think Stu was struggling a bit too.
We did a good job on the first bash but ended up taking the wrong bashing route on the second one (totally random choice though) and went into the gully of bushbashing doom for about an hour. Got out eventually and then made a proper nav mistake going up the wrong hill. Should have put a map on my bike as I was more awake and probably would have been more active backing up. O well, fixed the mistake well once we realised what was going on and headed out onto the main road. Probably lost 90min - 2hrs all up in here.
Road ride was good and then I was pretty smashed feeling for most of the Percy Pass section but what an awesome ride! Got some help from Stu up the hill which helped Yealands passed us on the bike carry with the slowest passing maneuver in the history of adventure racing. This got to me a bit as I was pretty keen to get onto the next trek in front of them. I think we were just too tired to move any faster. Chris was a freak going up here carrying everyones bikes past us.
Down into TA, well overdue a sleep but nowhere to sleep so pushed onto the kayak to sleep at the hut.
Paddled well and were very confused to find that we were infront of Yealands at the hut at the end of the kayak. We were convinced they were playing games with us and had snuck off to sleep on a beach somewhere or even just pretended to launch (about 10min infront of us). I certainly never believed they could have made a big nav error and we were in fact in front again!
Sunday Mar 4, 2018 #
Misc 24:00:00 [3]
This day sort of felt like it didn't happen! All we did was walk the South Coast track.....I wish it had never happened.
At Westies Y stopped and we decided to keep going, so no sleep on Saturday night, given we had got such good sleeps Thursday and Friday. All I had left to eat from this point was 3 AB meals and a few snacks (until I got some lollies and bars off another team at the lodge, phew)
The plan we decided on was to try and push through all of Sunday along the south coast track and sleep early on the bike or in TA. I found the south coast track mentally pretty hard. 60k of track was just too far to cope with and I started to get soggy foot about 20k in. Ended up having to stop for a rest and a sleep at Port Craig for 3hrs at about 6pm. Y went past while we were sleeping. Stu didnt sleep at all and I think I only got about an hour but at least our feet were able to dry out.
After the rest the walk out didnt feel like such a death march and we made ok progress all the way to TA arriving about 1am.
At Westies Y stopped and we decided to keep going, so no sleep on Saturday night, given we had got such good sleeps Thursday and Friday. All I had left to eat from this point was 3 AB meals and a few snacks (until I got some lollies and bars off another team at the lodge, phew)
The plan we decided on was to try and push through all of Sunday along the south coast track and sleep early on the bike or in TA. I found the south coast track mentally pretty hard. 60k of track was just too far to cope with and I started to get soggy foot about 20k in. Ended up having to stop for a rest and a sleep at Port Craig for 3hrs at about 6pm. Y went past while we were sleeping. Stu didnt sleep at all and I think I only got about an hour but at least our feet were able to dry out.
After the rest the walk out didnt feel like such a death march and we made ok progress all the way to TA arriving about 1am.