iRULE 12 Hour Urban Debacle, Canberra, ACT
Team BigFish with a Hardtale
Greg Bacon / 12.04.2007
The AROC Sports Team has come up with yet another way of cramming fun into adventure racing with the first 12 Hour Urban Debacle race. The event was a point score (as in a rogaine), with various valued checkpoints (CPs) around the Canberra precincts, depending on the activity or location of the CP. There were heaps of mountain bike tracks, lots of great rogaine locations in the bushlands, kayaking on Lake Burley Griffin plus plenty of fun urban challenges & adventures. We were given the majority of the maps and instructions when registering at the Debacle Restaurant on the Friday night and then spent several hours’ fine-tuning our race plan deciding which areas we could get to within the 12 hours allowed.The senior members of Team Bigfish, Garry Sundin and Team Hardtale, Greg Bacon joined up with Greg Hollands from Canberra to form a formidable Over 50’ team (we say formidable because we were the only one!). At least we had a good chance of coming away with a prize from the event as our combined ages of 163 yrs gave us a good start in the “oldest� team draw.
Our basic game plan was to head north to Mulligans Flat via Mt Ainslie, back to the City for Pizza, off for a few kayak checkpoints which would take us to Red Hill then return to HQ. We worked out times/hour markers for the course and hoped that we had not tried to take on too much, time would tell.
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