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Catch of the day

Steve Cooper / Team SleepMonsters.com.au / 27.09.2006

I\'ve caught a fish, I\'ve caught a fish, these were the words all of a sudden echoing from the front of the craft, I thought we were in an Adventure Race, well we were, and no I hadn’t fallen asleep, and I wasn’t dreaming about a fishing trip. The last time I caught a fish was about 20 years ago, and I was happy to leave it at that.

It was some ungodly hour of the morning, somewhere between 2 and 3am we were in the middle of a lake surrounded by a featureless horizon, no moon and we were looking for Checkpoints in the Maximum Adventure Kathmandu 24hr Race, and we had just caught a fish !!!! more like the fish had just caught us, and this hadn’t been our only run in with wildlife.

So how did we find ourselves in this position, due to work commitments Mike and I found ourselves as the remaining team mates from our original team of 4 (Team SleepMonsters.com.au) in the Kathmandu Max 24hr.

Adventure Racing involves people getting outside and enjoying parts of the country you may not regularly get into, while challenging yourselves physically and mentally quite often in a team situation, it also has a habit of bringing you a bit closer to nature on occasions. This race was certainly no different.

Race HQ was Bendalong Tourist Park on the NSW South Coast, an area fringed by clear tidal lakes, lush forest and as we would find out plenty of hills.

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