Kathmandu Adventure (Syd)
How to Race on a piece of Toast.!!!
Team Mitch Buchanan the 3rd / 17.01.2007
It was Nick and myself’s second adventure race. In our previous attempt we made about a million navigation errors and so we were determined to have another crack.Arriving at the event location (on the banks of the Nepean River) there were cars and people everywhere and I had to look around to find Nick. He flagged me down as I drove by and we began unpacking our cars. At this point he mentioned he’d only had time to eat a piece of toast for breakfast. Yep, just one solitary slice of bread, toasted. Not exactly the breakfast of champions!
We set up our bikes in the transition area, leaving some food and water there for later. 2 litres on our backs for now and another 1.5 left in transition that should be heaps… or so we thought
After a quick race briefing the event was underway. The first leg was a short run around the block through the suburban streets of Leonay to pick up some easy check points. There were some bemused looks on the faces of locals who had gotten up from their Sunday morning breakfasts to take in the spectacle from the front porch. A couple of hundred green bibbed crazies running amok in a quiet suburban street on a sleepy Sunday morning is not something you see every day!
Once we had all those checkpoints we ducked back down to the riverbank to pick up another map and a kayak. Kayaking was never going to be our best leg – we are mountain bikers not paddlers after all – but we managed to hold our position on this leg, overtaking one other team and being overtaken only once. As we reached the end of the leg we noticed the trekkers running along the riverbank, they were on the other part of the figure eight loop.
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