AROC 24 Hour Urban Adventure

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Team Fugahwes Take

Mark McDonald, Team Fugahwe / 21.03.2005

Well, after months of running up and down hills, over the handlebar trips on the bike and a last minute kayaking lesson (thanks Marc Murphy) the time for my first endurance length adventure race had come. Team Fugahwe (Selina Stoute, Keith Conley and myself) arrived at the start to be greeted by the howling winds that were to put the “adventure� into the race for most of the day. We stored our gear and inflated tyre tubes under a tarp in the main transition area to prevent the wind from relocating them to another postcode and set off to registration. Frantic course marking, contacting and instruction reading ensued whilst trying to poke food into our faces, load backpacks and, for myself at least, calm the nerves that were suggesting I had leapt in very deep indeed.

The first leg was a 7km paddle which was made tricky by the forceful winds which had whipped up the lake. Despite the best intentioned pre race strategy of maintaining an easy sustainable pace, I was having to work quite hard at the back of the boat to try and keep the kayak on our intended path, with limited success. Leg dispatched and control card in hand we headed off for a quick dash around the Weston Park maze and a swim across the lake to the first rogaine leg on Black Mountain.
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