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Back At It
After a bit of an uncertain spring, the ankle seems to have resolved itself for the most part, and I was able to kick off the season with a top-10 finish in the blazing heat at the Victoria duathlon on the weekend.
With that encouragement, we’re heading forward with a pretty race-intensive june that will build [...]
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Frontier Adventure Challenge
Race Report: Frontier Adventure Challenge
Peter and I drove to Deerhurst Friday night, arriving around 10 pm and opting for the less ostentatious back-of-the-van-in-the-parking-lot accomodations. Lots of signs of renovations around in advance of next months G8 Summit – including some dumpsters nad a variety of shipping trailers here and there.
We tuned up our bikes in [...]
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What’s Next:
I realized I didn’t actually answer ‘what’s next’ in my last little post.
so: after some good R and R I am easing back into training, enjoying some spring skiing (great cardio, and an excellent warmup for kayaking) and running. I’m hoping to do some spring downriver and flatwater kayak races, team up with Bob Miller [...]
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looking backwards and forwards
Well, we’re home, having arrived late last night (in bed by 3 AM!) and headed back to work today. First question my colleague Chris asked?
So what’s next?
Before we go to that question, I’ve got some highlights from our post-race recovery loop around the island. - Whitewater rafting on the Rangitata river
- Seeing penguins in Omaru
-Running [...]
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photos up
we have a photo album from the race uploaded at www.facebook.com/vandorpracing!
Cheers,
Jack
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It’s all over….
Well, we made it through with some serious course adjustments. Final placing: 13th.
Stage 1: Run 3 km / cycle 55km. The race started just after 6 in a torrential downpour, with strong winds from the West (tailwind). My strategy was to be at the front of the running group to be sure to get into [...]
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support notes…
We had a series of challenges to get things organized for all of the changes in the course, and then ‘technical difficulties’ . At Aickens, we arrived with plenty of time so we organized ourselves and headed towards the transition area early. We stayed until Ursula came though – knowing we had three hours probably [...]
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In Lead Group Through First Transition!
Jack was in great spirits in the heavy rain at the first transition from Bike to Run! Now he’s past Aurthur’s Pass, running on the highway instead of the trail due to course changes. But now the sun is out and he’s still among the lead runners. Up next is a 133km bike towards Chch!
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Race day… Rainy Day
And it is 5:31, we have dropped off the racersin the pouring rain and the support team now heads to Aickens for the transition. We expect some course changes due to the weather – the river vally mountain run is quite hazardous under these conditions.. but what makes it and adventure is the uncertainty.
For updates [...]
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And the (two-day) race begins…
Support team members Carrie, Amy and Rachel slipped out of the cabin to catch the start of the two day event – these folks are either indivuduals or part of a two-person team and they will hopefully complete the run, bike and mountain run stages today and continue with the rest of the race on [...]
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