Arrow Sydney

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Arrow 1 Revisited and some.

Greg Bacon / 20.05.2006

There has been a lot of discussion on the Arrow 24 hr race held on 13/14 May at Wisemans Ferry. What has been overlooked is that there was some tight racing throughout the field and it came down to the last tramp/trek leg to sort out placings.
There were 14 teams entered in the event with Stu Adams going alone in the race.

Leg 1. Run Leg of approx 5 k depending on which way you went.

Most of the teams took around one hour to find two checkpoints around the hills near Del Rio resort. Team Millie were the first to finish with most teams coming in within 10 min of the leaders. The checkpoints were easy to find with route selection between CP’s being the decider.

Leg 2. Kayak Leg of Approx 32 k up river to the Bridge to Nowhere.

The water was flat for the start with a light tail breeze, once again Millie set the pace and increased their lead with a time of 2h34min., boat choice certainly giving them a buffer over the rest of the field. Our team had just passed the halfway mark on the outwards leg when Mille glided past with around 10k to finish their paddle. The racing between the majority of the kayaks was very close with two tight packs within 10 min of the leaders. Stu Adams was in his single kayak leading the chasing pack.
For those of us at the end of the field we spent the last 30 min of the leg dodging speed boats and punching into a stiff breeze and swell.
It was a good work out on the paddle leg and no complaints so far.
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