Report on adventure race - Triathlon Week

09-20-2006, 11:19 PM

This was a very short race. The top person finished it 1 hr 44 minutes.

I finished it in 2 hrs. I was 11 out of 31. I have no idea how
competive this race was or how well I did compared to other races. The
girl that always finishes a bit ahead of me in other races was behind
me 20 minutes so maybe i did improve. There was about 4 kms of
kayaking, 5 kms of a trail run up a mountain and than mostly 8 kms
downhill on mountain bike trails. My chain came off both front and back

sprockets when rear derailler hit a rock. The kayak rental place did
not have any of the kayaks that were reserved so I had to take a
soltice gt with busted rudder. The trail was not marked everywhere so
you had to read the map to navigate.

There was an easy puzzle but I just froze and it took me forever to
solve it. I didnt read the instructions carefully for one thing. I
thought it was one puzzle or something . as soon as i realized the
answer to first one , i knew the answer to second one. so there were
two puzzles.
I was not able to think laterally for whatever reason. I was too
intense. As soon as orientated myself, i instantly knew the answers to
both. It cost me a minute and two people got ahead of me.

"below zero" was the sample:

0
------ = Below zero
xxxx
r
o
The word "sand" was in a box. and roads
d
s

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09-21-2006, 11:09 PM

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] schreef:

> This was a very short race. The top person finished it 1 hr 44 minutes.
>
> I finished it in 2 hrs. I was 11 out of 31. I have no idea how
> competive this race was or how well I did compared to other races. The
> girl that always finishes a bit ahead of me in other races was behind
> me 20 minutes so maybe i did improve. There was about 4 kms of
> kayaking, 5 kms of a trail run up a mountain and than mostly 8 kms
> downhill on mountain bike trails. My chain came off both front and back
>
> sprockets when rear derailler hit a rock. The kayak rental place did
> not have any of the kayaks that were reserved so I had to take a
> soltice gt with busted rudder. The trail was not marked everywhere so
> you had to read the map to navigate.
>
> There was an easy puzzle but I just froze and it took me forever to
> solve it. I didnt read the instructions carefully for one thing. I
> thought it was one puzzle or something . as soon as i realized the
> answer to first one , i knew the answer to second one. so there were
> two puzzles.
> I was not able to think laterally for whatever reason. I was too
> intense. As soon as orientated myself, i instantly knew the answers to
> both. It cost me a minute and two people got ahead of me.
>
>
> "below zero" was the sample:
>
>
> 0
> ------ = Below zero
> xxxx
> r
> o
> The word "sand" was in a box. and roads
> d
> s
>
>
> Reply »

sounds like good fun. Did you enjoy it?

09-22-2006, 10:15 PM

no.

lambert agneau wrote:
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] schreef:
>
> > This was a very short race. The top person finished it 1 hr 44 minutes.
> >
> > I finished it in 2 hrs. I was 11 out of 31. I have no idea how
> > competive this race was or how well I did compared to other races. The
> > girl that always finishes a bit ahead of me in other races was behind
> > me 20 minutes so maybe i did improve. There was about 4 kms of
> > kayaking, 5 kms of a trail run up a mountain and than mostly 8 kms
> > downhill on mountain bike trails. My chain came off both front and back
> >
> > sprockets when rear derailler hit a rock. The kayak rental place did
> > not have any of the kayaks that were reserved so I had to take a
> > soltice gt with busted rudder. The trail was not marked everywhere so
> > you had to read the map to navigate.
> >
> > There was an easy puzzle but I just froze and it took me forever to
> > solve it. I didnt read the instructions carefully for one thing. I
> > thought it was one puzzle or something . as soon as i realized the
> > answer to first one , i knew the answer to second one. so there were
> > two puzzles.
> > I was not able to think laterally for whatever reason. I was too
> > intense. As soon as orientated myself, i instantly knew the answers to
> > both. It cost me a minute and two people got ahead of me.
> >
> >
> > "below zero" was the sample:
> >
> >
> > 0
> > ------ = Below zero
> > xxxx
> > r
> > o
> > The word "sand" was in a box. and roads
> > d
> > s
> >
> >
> > Reply »
>
> sounds like good fun. Did you enjoy it?