Day One of the Challenge

Hi all,
Well what a day. Day one of the Challenge presented us a 4km kayak, 12km run up and down cradle mountain, and a 32km bruising and battering mountain bike ride.

We have already suffered the lows and celebrated th highs of this event. We came out of the kayak and run in a great position and all of a sudden we went from just hoping to finish and enjoying the unreal views, to thinking we could actually do OK.

That did not last long after missing a transition point and doing an extra 5kms on the bike and losing 20 minutes.

Anyway, after 7hrs of adventure racing, we made the finsih line. What an achievement.
The evening has been spent in the lake, on the massage table and with medicos to have knees etc attended to. Bring on Day Two.

Cheers,
Derek and Nathan