this AR the Adventure Racing thread

[dave303e]

Jewbacca is in Team Badly Drawn Hyena, not sure if any of the others are hubbers,

 

Have a lot of friends and team mates racing though. 6 SA teams, and 1 SA Lady in another team.

[cat-i]

+1, seeing my team heading over is going to make work during the race a serious drag.

Thankfully in the GIS industry a map on my work screen looks like work so trackers can be eyeballed hard.

 

 

Who is your team? Red Ants?

[dave303e]

Who is your team? Red Ants?

 

yup, I did most of the local races with them this year, but the team on Reunion is a solid one, some good experience and strength there.

[Shebeen]

Jewbacca is in Team Badly Drawn Hyena, not sure if any of the others are hubbers,

 

Have a lot of friends and team mates racing though. 6 SA teams, and 1 SA Lady in another team.

yup, not many seem to waste their time here, clearly too busy training!

 

 

Team Badly Drawn Hyena is a joke.

 

no seriously it is.

They got the entry and then put the team together, so a name was required.

And what better name, than a ripoff of our best team, Painted Wolf

cool logo apparently took an hour to make.

 

 

damon on Badly Drawn Hyena = pigeon

https://www.bikehub.co.za/user/5640-pigeon/

 

total lurker it seems

[cat-i]

yup, I did most of the local races with them this year, but the team on Reunion is a solid one, some good experience and strength there.

 

Last night when they went to bed after the prologue they were second in the world champs     

[Shebeen]

 

SO, speculation time!

Let's look at leg2 - the packraft

 

This is

A - a short hike, ropes at waterfall, assemble boats

B - 10-12km paddle, first half down river, 2nd half flat/estuary

C - 2,5km beach trek

D - 5km up river estuary paddle 

E - 8km hike up valleys (500m gain!)

F- 12km down to finish.

 

The race book says 14h15 for the quick guys

And there's 5:15 - 19:00, 13:45 of sunlight.

 

Looking backwards, from the F leg, you can paddle at night from CP10,and you can travel here from point 68, about 2km up river by foot.

So you need to start F at about 5:30pm , the book says you can leave CP9 by 16:45, so i guess that is sort of a way of setting the darkzone limit.

 

Now working further back, you'd need to start the E hike by about 2:30pm

You'd need to start the D paddle by 1:30pm

The beach trek by 1pm

The B paddle by 9am

The A hike by 8am.

 

You can start the B paddle at 5:15am, so I guess my times are a bit short, but you can definitely do this leg in one day.

I expect loads of top teams will be at the TA1, logging sleep and then all hitting the K8 ropes at first light.

Yes ropes, so there is tactics in getting a jump on teams here.

 

The darkzone on night 2 is after 37 hours racetime, which is slated to take the quick guys 38h30.

It almost seems like this first leg is setup to have a virtual restart for the leading teams at TA1, but suggested times are just that.

If you could blitz this first leg in 35 hours, you have 2 hours to get to CP7 where you could still log sleep.

If you go insanely quick, you could get maybe all the way to K10 and then the end of the beach/CP9 and still log sleep. but that would then mean doing this first leg in something like 30-32 hours. This is potentially a big enough carrot for a team to push hard on this leg and then rest up at CP9 for 8 hours..

 

as always, speculation is the easy bit looks simple on google earth.

 

[Chris_]

Ai this is a long race.

 

Half way through the first section. And we've been watching for a day already.

[dave303e]

So a brilliant thing is that they stuck streetview cameras on hikers backpacks on Reunion so you can streetview the hike up to Piton Des Neigres where Jabberwock and Painted wolf are currently.

 

But yes it is a total different game to other races.... Bear in mind most haven't slept yet as they push for the dark zones. Also note that the leaders have already done a fair whack of the climbing, this leg has enough elevation gain to go from sea level to the top of Kilimanjaro 1,5 times

[Shebeen]

So a brilliant thing is that they stuck streetview cameras on hikers backpacks on Reunion so you can streetview the hike up to Piton Des Neigres where Jabberwock and Painted wolf are currently.

 

But yes it is a total different game to other races.... Bear in mind most haven't slept yet as they push for the dark zones. Also note that the leaders have already done a fair whack of the climbing, this leg has enough elevation gain to go from sea level to the top of Kilimanjaro 1,5 times

 

https://www.google.co.za/maps/@-21.098981,55.479817,3a,75y,209.23h,96.54t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOYrX4xuJsQLl-1sbAfcHzwQm0BVkjdjpq7uBGl!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOYrX4xuJsQLl-1sbAfcHzwQm0BVkjdjpq7uBGl%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya39.500008-ro-0-fo100!7i8000!8i4000

 

I think quite a few did sleep so far, it's touch and go how many will clear past TA1 before darkzone tonight as they are only moving about 4km/h downhill and there's 8 hours of daylight left

[dave303e]

I thought most would push through till I watched the painted wolf interview where they mention it was tough to sleep.

 

Here is an interview with the Red Ants

https://www.sleepmonsters.com/races.php?article_id=10392

 

Seems like they predicting to get caught bad by the dark zones.

[cat-i]

Looks like Painted Wolf is out

[cat-i]

 

I think quite a few did sleep so far, it's touch and go how many will clear past TA1 before darkzone tonight as they are only moving about 4km/h downhill and there's 8 hours of daylight left

 

Haglofs Silva, Avaya, Naturex all nearing T1. You think they will risk going out, and possibly have to sleep where it can't be counted?

[Chris_]

Looks like Painted Wolf is out

 

Out or they've just run in the wrong direction?

[dave303e]

Saw a post where John was battling with ITB

[cat-i]

Out or they've just run in the wrong direction?

Really hope so!

 

But they posted an hour ago about bad ITB.  That direction looks very deliberate on the way to Hellbourg. 

Edited November 9, 2018 by cat-i

[Shebeen]

Looks like Painted Wolf is out

they're back at race start.

major bummer.

but they not fly by nights, they would have taken the right decision.

 

this looks sore

https://www.facebook.com/TeamPaintedWolf/photos/a.1619968241661232/2206710019653715/?type=3&theater