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Blackheart Events launch into Qld

08.12.2009

Not a breath of wind, clear blue skies, and a fantastic crowd who are very enthusiastic and passionate about their adventure racing, added to a very memorable, action packed day. Racers started arriving early, some eager to get into focus and concentrate on their race, others keen to pick up tips for their first time around.

Kookaburra Park in Karana Downs provided a great venue to host the race with an abundance of facilities and shady trees, and it was through Kookaburra Park that teams commenced the race, with a short rogaining section to split teams before commencing the Leg 2 kayak stage. Teams darted around the park, some taking their time to take in the scenery around the pondage, some tentatively wading through knee-deep water while making their way between CP’s 4 & 5.

At TA1, the usual suspects Mountain Designs, followed closely by SCAR and SkirtSports Australia, checked in and then portaged their kayaks down to the waters edge to commence the 3km paddle down the river on the way to the stunning Venus Pool and Johnsons Rock.

SkirtSports Australia motored through the kayak section transitioning first at TA2, while Mountain Designs mistook a large paddock as the “small clearingâ€Â? where CP 9 was located and dropped back to 4th.

Teams then had a short orienteering leg through the Venus Pool and Johnson’s Rock. CP 12, up a tree over the Venus Pool, led to a few cases of the leg wobbles, as one member of each team scrambled up the increasingly slippery trunk to retrieve the checkpoint, but all ended well with no teams reportedly taking a dip in the pool below. At the end of this leg, most teams elected to collect CP 15 on foot. Teams that opted for the alternative option returned to TA3 and then proceeded to collect CP 15 on kayak, before then paddling back up the Brisbane River to TA 4 and the Leg 5 bike ride.

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