Myakka Mud Slide - 2014

This one took me a while to get up, but here is a short description of the race. I raced with Jim Gorton and we had a great race. We raced as Tequila on Tuesday

Prolog Map

Prolog - We started with a Prolog Orienteering Course using the map above. We quickly got (in this order) 4, 2, 3, and 5 and completed it in 19 minutes who started out with control 6 which would definitely have been shorter. We did, however get trail for almost the entire prolog so it was  nice warmup run.

We then had about a mile run to the boats, we chose not to get any controls on the way as did the other teams in the lead as they made a lot more sense to get on the return trip.

Paddle Map

Paddle - We put a lot of effort into the paddle leg including a portage from CP14 back to the river that saved us a couple of minutes. We caught up with Endeavor and Endeavor, SWIM, and our team came out of the water within minutes of each other and started on the trek back to the start/finish. We did come out of the water at the Power TA. SWIM and our team tied for fastest paddle times at 1:23.

To/From Paddle

Trek to S/F - Some trail running and a solid bushwack to CP17 and from CP17 to CP18 but us into the TA within seconds of Endeavor. We both ran this in 35 minutes. SWIM took a longer route to CP18, coming in from the north that cost them about 7 minutes.

Bike Leg

Bike Leg- We went full hammer on the bike leg. Some bike troubles slowed Endeavor early and they took a slightly different route choice. We took the exact highlighted route on the map. (also here is a trace of the route) We finished this in 1:33, which the fastest time).

Orienteering - Coming in off the bike first gave us some comfort on attacking the last orienteering leg. I figured it would take us roughly an hour - but we attacked every control conservative taking a counter clockwise route starting with CP6. At first the map scale threw me - but I quickly recovered and we finished this in under an hour to complete the course in just under 5 hours.

Results and Pictures are at http://pangeaadventureracing.com/event-details/events/2014-mud-slide-ar