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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Team Extreme Check point 10
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Team Xtreme's Race Report
Team Xtreme’s race report by Trevor Hellens
We kicked off with a blistering start, Local knowledge definitely gave us the advantage in the beginning, I always struggle with doing things under pressure but before we knew it we on our way up to CP 1 with team Olympus hot on our heels, we knew exactly how to get to the first 3 checkpoints learning quickly that we had left half the maps/instructions/cell phone in the car, we bargained with Olympus to share their info in exchange for our local knowledge example 44/108/Gate Celtis Rd. Then a very quick transition at crossways , having a quick look at the map and then putting it into our pocket and heading up to the Swartkop trig and then to Midmar Gate 1.
As you may have guessed we were leading up to here, the biggest problem was we had not really looked at the map and were racing on knowledge more so than navigation, Without even looking at the next check point CP10, I handed over the maps to my team mates and thought this would be a comfortable leg to let them navigate and for me to drive (despite George even hinting that maybe we should re check the map) Half an hour later after blogging the Nelson Mandela site and the killer pig I gave my team a call to see how they were doing and they admitted to me that they were lost, I decided to go have a drink in the Everglades Bar and watch the Tour de France. My team mates were luckily enough to hook up with team Yoshimi and stuck to them like glue, borrowing, begging and stealing anything they could get from them.
16h00 Team Xtreme came in with Yoshimi to the Everglades hotel starving and dehydrated, we had some lunch and decided to get out the map and start working from it properly, we hiked over a little bump to a trig beacon and then descended the other side to the transition just in time before it got too dark.
We decided to really slow down the pace and really study the map and not make any mistakes from here on in as it was going to be a long cold night. We jumped onto our bikes and headed for CP 14 and what a relief to finally find it with yet again a helping hand from team Yoshimi. This bike leg got colder and longer as we were aiming for Kamburg Nature Reserve or transition 6.
Almost midnight and we arrived at the Transition 6 with temperatures close to 0 degrees, we jumped into the car and put the heater on full ball and had a great supper. We studied the map and were really concerned about getting to the finish which as the crow flies was less than 5km but would be some seriously tough navigation and we really were in no mood to be lost in the middle of nowhere so we decided to hike on the road around to High moor roughly 22km long. We got ready, put on all the warm clothes we could find and started to pack the bikes onto the car,,, 1 bike,,,,2 bikes,,,,,3bikes,,,, where’s the fourth bike gone (Stolen) from right under our noses. Talk about a sick dark feeling, especially having a touring Scottish lady racing with us, she could not come to grips or understand that such a thing could happen, but we explained to her that this was South Africa and anything is possible.
We decided that we really needed to pack up and get out of the area as quick as possible as we were all alone in the middle of the bush. We drove a kilometer or so away from the transition 5 area and then began the hike that really never ended and got steeper and harder towards the end finishing at 04h00 in the morning and adding a 10 minute penalty for missing CP 10. The hardest leg of the whole event was probably the drive home trying to stay awake.
Thanks George for an awesome race and well organized, we really enjoyed the new format of having a rotating driver and emailing the CP’s to the blog
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Martin Hall
Ryan Timmerman
Hannah Barnes
Trevor Hellens
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Uncharted - retry
might not have great sight but we have allot of VISION.
Thanks to George for an amazingly fun and adventureous race!!! We had fun
and really enjoyed it.
Team Uncharted.
A High Ending
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a beautiful hike up the hill/mountain behind Everglades Hotel. Both teams
arrived at the hotel at 21:00 very tired and cold. However, they all
decided not to quit just yet and left for the top of the hill at 22:00. We
were all at our seconding vehicles at 01:00 Sunday morning. Thanks for a
great hike WalkAndSeeMore.
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Uncharted at Midmar Gate
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us just felt like climbing over?
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stuff. P.S. Great piece of single track coming down Zwartkop!
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Uncharted
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
So we WERE lost :(
Stoopid trees. And the roads were not the same as the map! We have been rescued. Now we are looking for some got food.
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Everglades Hotel
Sitting in the lounge at Everglades, on a balmy winter afternoon, waiting for teams Yoshimi and Xtreme who are together and Olympus, who have dropped off the radar. This cycle leg is quite a climb and then steep hike up the nhlazane
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Report from Cascades
12h43 at cascades. Teams Xtreme, Olympus and Yoshimi are about 10 minutes apart. Racers are strong and heading off on a good ride into the hills. Drivers have to go and photograph a killer razorback pig and find the Nelson Mandela memorial site, before meeting their teams at the Everglades Hotel. Spirits are up, but I'm a bit worried about the back markers, they seem to be taking strain.as I speak team Lost and Found seconds arrive and we scan the horizon for them.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Lickety Split - Part duh...
Trying to rush thru some final prep and get this email blog thingy working..... It's gonna be great... (I don't get out much...)
Lickety Split - part duh...
Trying to rush through the final prep for the race..... And get this email blog thingy working.... It's gonna be great ... (I don't get out much.....)
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