Wan Dae #3
Drumlanrig Castle - event centre for the 3rd and final race of the 2006 Wan Dae Adventure Racing Series....
Bob, Ed & I raced together (Pete still struggling with a calf injury), having changed our team name from Total Strangers to Stranger Still :) It was a good day, but team #13 proved to be slightly unlucky for us as we struggled to find various checkpoints, particularly on the biking section. An orienteering section on foot to start, then off on the bikes to get as many checkpoints as we could in any order, with some other events along the way - kayaking was pretty cruisy, then we had a very 'refreshing' swim across the river in the Castle grounds, a steep uphill slog to a summit, and some really nice forest tracks on the bike (pity they didn't lead to anywhere we thought they would but still...!)
I was at a Performance Club Challenge event in Prestwick on Friday (with the Craiglockhart team), so I stayed with Bob in Glasgow on Fri & Sat, then headed back to the tournament on Sunday. It was a really well-run event - five teams each had 2 boys & 2 girls in four different age groups, U/9, U/11, U/13 & U/18 - lots of tennis and a fun social event for all the kids to catch up at as well.
Finished my team captain/taxi driver duties and came back to the flat to clean all my smelly, dirty racing gear - ready for another one next weekend!
Bob, Ed & I raced together (Pete still struggling with a calf injury), having changed our team name from Total Strangers to Stranger Still :) It was a good day, but team #13 proved to be slightly unlucky for us as we struggled to find various checkpoints, particularly on the biking section. An orienteering section on foot to start, then off on the bikes to get as many checkpoints as we could in any order, with some other events along the way - kayaking was pretty cruisy, then we had a very 'refreshing' swim across the river in the Castle grounds, a steep uphill slog to a summit, and some really nice forest tracks on the bike (pity they didn't lead to anywhere we thought they would but still...!)
I was at a Performance Club Challenge event in Prestwick on Friday (with the Craiglockhart team), so I stayed with Bob in Glasgow on Fri & Sat, then headed back to the tournament on Sunday. It was a really well-run event - five teams each had 2 boys & 2 girls in four different age groups, U/9, U/11, U/13 & U/18 - lots of tennis and a fun social event for all the kids to catch up at as well.
Finished my team captain/taxi driver duties and came back to the flat to clean all my smelly, dirty racing gear - ready for another one next weekend!
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