Run Bike Kayak whilst orienteering.
The person/team to collect the most points wins, much more enjoyable than a flat out race around a track.
This is the second time I have done this event at Pershore, was kinda expecting the checkpoints to be in the same areas and the kayaking from the same spot - nope! (darn!)
Last time myself and Lorraine did it as a team, this time we were racing against each other... but we ended up sticking together anyway. 😀
The run and kayaking transition were 10km from HQ this time.
As we were given the last time slot for kayaking our order of the day was Bike Run Kayak. I would have preferred kayaking first but getting the last time slot was second best.
I was thinking of riding up Bredon Hill when we started but then quickly decided better to not knacker myself out so early on, navigating around it was the better option. We got 4 checkpoints on the mountain bikes and then headed to run transition.
After going around in circles a bit we eventually found run transition! 😃
As it were so warm (over 25 deg) we decided we were going to walk the running part and soon plotted a route around the river to end up at kayaking transition.
It were a lovely walk down by the river through fields etc, half way around we started seeing other participants on the kayaks so we were able to clock where the checkpoints were. (ha!)
We arrived at Kayaking transition 30 minutes early, luckily some boats were coming in and the marshals let us on early. We were glad of that as we pretty much had the river to ourselves which meant no argy-bargy at the checkpoints. Even though there was very little in the way of wind I found the kayaking knackering on my shoulders although at that point it must have been 28 degrees too so the heat probably had something to do with it. We got three checkpoints and then turned around, on our way back the rest of the participants were paddling down all looking serious with game faces on.
Nice walk back to run transition to pick the bikes back up, was pretty tired riding 10km back to HQ, plenty of others riding back so followed the flow.
We covered around 25 miles altogether, I was recording with gps but it malfunctioned half way around tut!
Brill day out with a happy knackered feeling at the end.
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