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AROC Mountain Designs - AR Sprint Champions

Geocentric / 28.11.2005

With some of Australia’s strongest teams in the field, including Torque Landrover Area 51, Mountain Designs and Sydney race winners Le Tronk, the Teva Champs was always going to be a hotly contested affair, prompting the race organisers to construct a harder, longer and more testing course.

Kicking off with ‘Drinks Anyone?’, competitors frantically scrambled to fill water buckets using tiny cups before shouldering their kayaks and dashing to the water’s edge for the first of two 3.5km paddle legs. True to “The Year of the Wet Teva� form, as the starter’s gun sounded the skies clouded over and a brief deluge soaked the field as they headed for Nerang State Forest.

Nerang’s infamous steep climbs and treacherous descents were all put to good use as the course snaked it’s way to the forest’s outer edges. Testing obstacles such as the leg burning ‘Speed Racer’, ‘Long Legs’ (a stilt-relay) and bush-bashing hike scattered the field, leaving the top five teams well ahead of the rest of the pack.

Charging into Checkpoint 14, the symbolic half-way point of the course, Team AROC Mountain Designs held a narrow lead over Mountain Designs and Torque Landrover Area 51. A quick round of ‘Mountain Bike Polo’ saw these teams bunched even closer together as they headed back into the forest for a spot of orienteering.

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