Beat the Train! in Salmon this June. My first bike race since our accident in '98! I had to remind myself that I had only purchased my bike 4 weeks before the race - that didn't help though as I went from being first woman to about 6th during the last quarter of the bike section! Dave picked it up though doing a 38 min hilly 10km run and we smoked along on the 8 km canoe section - I wondered if I would make it through that part! There is nowhere to bail out if you bonk on the open water!
We had a blast! Dave just missed being stopped by the train on the transition from run to canoe! We placed 1st in the 2 man team and 4th overall, being slaughtered on the water by a dragon boat team, a 5 man outrigger team and one other canoe from the mixed section (different people for every part of the race). Now we are looking for a used racing canoe (if anybody knows of one for sale) as we do plan to do this race again in 2009!
PS. Do not stay at any motels that are housing tree planters, you will not get much sleep! (thanks for that memory Dave!)
Our next mission is to do the x/c running races starting in Sept, which should help to set us up for our winter sport - x/c skiing.
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