BMMC Keeps the trophy

After all the media hype over the week the mountains were alive, could the SUMMIT GEAR BIGFISH team maintain its hold on the Kathmandu sprint race in the Blue Mountains????

Myself and MH were as ready as we would ever be heading in well feed and watered.

The race commenced with a short rogaine around euroka clearing where we had to collect 5 out of 6 check points in any order, given MH's research midweek we pretty much knew where we were heading. We lead out of here under the 5mins.

Into the saddle and we had to climb our of Euroka up Bennets ridge up the oaks and down to red hand caves car park. In the climb up one team went past but at one of the check points near the top I could see & hear he had blown a lot of juice to catch us, and before we got to red hands cave we had them back.

A quick change of shoes and out on to the run, we started the run with 4 or 5 teams around us as they did not have to change shoes. we ran out hard to disappear out of site. We picked up 2 check points and started the climb back out of the creek, up the ridge to our bikes. A this point i was feeling strong but i could not say the same about MH, his legs were not firing. Therefore in the quick march up the steps we dropped the 4 spots before the transition back to our bikes.

Back on the two wheels beast and yet another climb, We had been going just over the hour and covered a 3km run, 10-12km bike and 6km run, so the pace was up. MH legs still did not want to fire so i had settled on trying to get us into 3rd given we could pass one team on the single track and one in the kayak. We pushed on and i gave assistance to MH when i could, drafting or pushing.
We hit the single track and we let rip, MH's focus went from his legs to the track and pace came up, there goes one team flat tyre know in 4th, 2 cp's and across Ironbarks and down the ridge, we could see another. So we pushed like crazy mountain men. They beat us to the cp so it was going to coming down the pace. It would take my a few second to clip and by this stage MH was in front of both of them so i had all the work in front of me as i wanted to lead through the gate into Euroka to the next cp as i knew they would not pass us on the kayak. Passed one of on the inside and the other in the air over a water channel, but this left me with to much pace and i could not get it off, as i had to go through between 2 metal posts less than a metre apart, it was to lead to the next cp, i could not do any thing so i lined up the best i could and slid through sideways, i do not know how i missed. But we lead to the cp and up to the transition. (thanks to the BMMC cheers squad)

We asked how far in front the leaders were, the reply we got was 'you are it' to our surprise 2 teams were MIA. A quick 1 km run to the river and into the boats, at the turn of the kayak leg we could see we had a few hundred metres on them and in these boats this was alot. Marched up out of the river and 1 cp and trotted for home, cramps just starting to set in but we knew it was only a few more minutes.

Done 2hr 32min 1st Male, 1st Overall