Last weekend I went down to Lorne with Craig, Bianca, Michael and Elise to tackle the Anaconda. I was the only idiot to enter it as an individual. It was by far the most brutal thing I've ever done!
The swim wasn't too bad, for the 1.9km swim plus about 400m of beach running took a tad under 50mins... but that was just the start. I jumped in the kayak and went way too casually to a point where I couldn't care anymore. At the southern turnaround point I looked around to see I was last, then 4 or 5 in sit on tops came out so I made sure they stayed behind me.
The run should have been my strongest leg, but I didn't expect it to be that tough..... it started with 2 or 3k of rocks along the coast, which at times were slippery or unstable and then it got a whole heap better with a river crossing that was waist deep, and thats when I thought the run was pretty simple from there on. Nup, it wasn't there was a whole heap of fallen tree branches on the path that had to be jumped, and then........ a creek with a log to cross it on....but thats nothing cos as soon as we crossed it the arrow point up. Where? Straight up some sort of a cliff face. Oh and there was a rope tied to a tree to pull yourself up on. I was starting to think that this whole thing was plain stupid, until I got to an un runnable downhill which was pretty much a slide. Throw in some un runnable steep uphills and you have yourself a nasty little 15km course. And we had to cross the river and all them bloody rocks again! Plain murder!
The mountain bike leg was all about just getting to the top of the hill cos I'll be right to fly down the fast descents..... had to walk the bike up some sections and then down some sections that I couldn't ride.
Splits...... 1.9km swim 49:28, 13km paddle 2:07:xx, 15km run 2:00:48, 24km MTB 2:09:xx, 1.5km beach run 8:29.
Next year will be all about revenge. I must go under 6hrs before I retire from this insanely stupid thing!
The swim wasn't too bad, for the 1.9km swim plus about 400m of beach running took a tad under 50mins... but that was just the start. I jumped in the kayak and went way too casually to a point where I couldn't care anymore. At the southern turnaround point I looked around to see I was last, then 4 or 5 in sit on tops came out so I made sure they stayed behind me.
The run should have been my strongest leg, but I didn't expect it to be that tough..... it started with 2 or 3k of rocks along the coast, which at times were slippery or unstable and then it got a whole heap better with a river crossing that was waist deep, and thats when I thought the run was pretty simple from there on. Nup, it wasn't there was a whole heap of fallen tree branches on the path that had to be jumped, and then........ a creek with a log to cross it on....but thats nothing cos as soon as we crossed it the arrow point up. Where? Straight up some sort of a cliff face. Oh and there was a rope tied to a tree to pull yourself up on. I was starting to think that this whole thing was plain stupid, until I got to an un runnable downhill which was pretty much a slide. Throw in some un runnable steep uphills and you have yourself a nasty little 15km course. And we had to cross the river and all them bloody rocks again! Plain murder!
The mountain bike leg was all about just getting to the top of the hill cos I'll be right to fly down the fast descents..... had to walk the bike up some sections and then down some sections that I couldn't ride.
Splits...... 1.9km swim 49:28, 13km paddle 2:07:xx, 15km run 2:00:48, 24km MTB 2:09:xx, 1.5km beach run 8:29.
Next year will be all about revenge. I must go under 6hrs before I retire from this insanely stupid thing!
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