More Adventure Racing Updates!
On 30th August Dave and I entered the 3rd and final race of the 2008 Ace Race series. It was based in Bracknell and was a hot day – 27C. There were a lot of long steep hills. Our plan was just go go for all of the checkpoints, which we did. besides my handlebars almost coming off of my bike and Dave getting a puncture, we managed to 8th out of 40 in the teams of 2 people and 17th out of 78 teams overall – which is a fantastic result!
Then a week later on the 7th September (the day before my 30th birthday), having only jsut recovered from the Ace Race, dave and I did the Dark and White race in North Derbyshire. We went up the night before and stayed in the Springfield Hotel which was really nice. I did a Photosynth of my hotel room which came out quite well – I’ll take more photos next time.
We were amongst the first people on-site at 8am and it was pretty cold! There was no formal brief, no safety talk, etc. we were just given an electronic dibber each, a map and told to get started at 9.15am! The weather kept changing throughout the day, it started really cold, got warmer, then rained. We thought we did well on the day but somehow the results show that we only came 6th out of 8th in our group (male team of 2 with an average of under 40) so we are not too sure why yet, we will need to go through the results in detail. I guess the other teams just made better choices in terms of which checkpoints they went for. Still, it was a great day and we had a lot of fun!
My next race is the Birmingham Half Marathon on the 26th October 2008!