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September 07, 2005
Ocean Blue 12-Hour - Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Some highlights and lowlights...
We actually had a very good race. There were a few challenges. Transitions were extremely fast. We probably passed on average of 4-5 teams per transition. Weather was perfect! Cool and foggy. No heat, my kind of race. Kayak we were fast passing more teams than not.
Lowlight.. my knee fired up during a beach run that almost brought me to the ground. This required us to walk at times and were passed by about 4 teams.. but later probably caught up on the ride. This beach run was a total surprise. We ran from the hillside to the back to the CP only to be told "surprise" you need to run down the beach a couple miles to that tiny tiny tiny yellow flag and then come back!
We made good choices in navigation between CPs throughout the race. We only had one screw up. The second to last CP (11?).
I passed it up and overshot it by 200 feet and by only about 1/4 - 1/2 mile. I should have paid attention to the altimeter which was spot on. Because of the heavy fog I missed the reverse fork in the road and the CP up the hill. At this point we were in the top 10-15 (1/3) of the pack and doing very well. leading the mid wolf pack. But because of the searching for the CP we were passed by about 5-6 teams. So barring this error, we would have come in 45-1hour sooner which would have put us around 15th place. Not to shabby. But that's not what happened and we came in 24th, dead middle of pack. Still darn good.
- "The Adam's"
(Adam Doti and Adam Armijo)
Posted by adoti at September 7, 2005 12:29 AM
