Wow I cannot believe my four weekends of racing have come and gone so quickly! It feels like I've only just been looking forward to it and now it's already been and gone. Crazy!
It has been a great challenge and not as hard as I had anticipated. The hardest part was Toi's (I think you can tell by the impression on my face in the pics) as I was still recovery from some big runs and rides. But they all races were a lot of fun and all were completely different which was just fantastic. I can recommend all of the four events and am looking forward to doing them again ;)
So now to the goat run, we were driving down to the national park, Fiona, Jason (thanks for driving!!) and I. We were not sure if the race was going to be postponed due to the week of rain leading up to it, we had heard the river levels would possibly be too high. It felt like a little adventure driving there and not knowing whether we would have to stay over night to race on Sunday or if it was on as planned or if we would be doing a different race course altogether.
But when we got to national park we went to the registration and everything was according to plan and we headed up to the start line to find some familiar faces like Budgy who was in charge of safety for the event (so we knew we were in good hands ;) )
It has been a great challenge and not as hard as I had anticipated. The hardest part was Toi's (I think you can tell by the impression on my face in the pics) as I was still recovery from some big runs and rides. But they all races were a lot of fun and all were completely different which was just fantastic. I can recommend all of the four events and am looking forward to doing them again ;)
So now to the goat run, we were driving down to the national park, Fiona, Jason (thanks for driving!!) and I. We were not sure if the race was going to be postponed due to the week of rain leading up to it, we had heard the river levels would possibly be too high. It felt like a little adventure driving there and not knowing whether we would have to stay over night to race on Sunday or if it was on as planned or if we would be doing a different race course altogether.
But when we got to national park we went to the registration and everything was according to plan and we headed up to the start line to find some familiar faces like Budgy who was in charge of safety for the event (so we knew we were in good hands ;) )
having a chat to Sjors before the start:
Lining up on the startline:
The race starts off with a mad run down the tarseal road before it heads into a super technical walking trail with lots of river crossings, ups and downs, lots of sliding and clambering and falling over. I am well battered and bruised now but it was all worth is ;)
I wasn't doing that well at all (obviously if I admit to falling over a few times), I felt like a roady on a slippery and technical single trail, especially when one of the girls came flying past me, it looked rather amazing and I had no idea how she did it. I did luckily catch her up on mama's mile, like the year before with Oksana, but this time there were 2 girls already over the finish line well before I started that last climb. I got 3rd, and was 1st Triple Crown woman over the line. So I managed to win the series, very happy :)
as you can see the weather wasn't that flash at the end of our run.
Fiona did really well in her first goat run and crossed the line, very dirty and wet and with a SMILE on her face :) - you cannot quite tell in the pic
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