Kathmandu Adventure, Blue Mtns NSW
What a Scorcher
Steve Cooper - SleepMonsters Aus / 15.01.2008
Sunday the 13th of Jan was the 2nd event of the weekend, Maximum Adventure having already filled Saturday to capacity with near 100 teams. After a scorcher on Saturday organizers were hoping for a bit of compassion on mother natures side, alas the relief came somewhat late for the majority of the field.
At 10am the race was off, teams proceeded on a mad dash to the map handout for the mystery component and then navigated their way around the clearing to locate 5 checkpoints, the top teams managed this in a matter of minutes and were soon either headed out on their bikes, for the blue course, or picking up paddles and PFDs at the TA and running down to the kayaks for the purple course, the teams were split to make use of the craft waiting on the water. I have walked around this area a bit but didn’t realize how far down to the river it was until I had to climb back out, we hit the water with the first couple of teams, thankfully a couple had failed to get CP1 under the bridge, so a detour was required on their return. It took the whole leg to real the leaders in, but it took less than 5 mins to hand it back as we slogged our way back to the start finish and our bikes via the Bennetts Ridge track.
Back at the TA and it was onto the bikes and off onto the surrounding fire trails picking up a couple of CPs and then on to the single track that paralleled the Woodford to Glenbrook fire trail, thankfully it was down hill after the 3 or 4km steady climb to the start of it, (I forgot to mention by now it was heading over 30 degrees and the canopy did little to cool competitors down). A couple of checkpoints later and with some sweet single track now behind us we arrived above the Glenbrook causeway at the bike TA.
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