A rough night in the tent with deflated sleeping mats and a very loud jack russell left us feeling a little far from 'race ready' but a bit of "power porridge" (porridge with protein/ carbohydrate powder) got us buzzing for the up coming event.
The event requires you to navigate to different checkpoints that are given to you on the morning of the race, you have to check in at as many possible checkpoints as possible within a 5 hour time limit. You can either run or mountain bike first (biking first is recommended as the checkpoints are worth more) but we ran first as this is our strongest.
One thing we weren't aware of is the fact that some of the checkpoints are worth nothing, they tell you this when you start the race making navigation quite difficult!
The total distance was roughly 20km of running and 30+km of mountain biking (of which 90% was uphill!) We came a respectable 8th place (1 minute from 7th place) and learnt that a lot of energy gels and plenty of fluid is a must!!A quick protein shake at the end to help recovery!!
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