It was great to get out last week for the first event of the wicked rogaine series and my first event since breaking my ribs almost 6 weeks prior. It was based around the sugarloaf reserve on the Port hills. I had no plan to be competitive, I was just happy to be out doing something after several weeks spent on the couch recovering. My sister joined me at the event to ensure I wouldn't go crazy and push myself too hard.
With my K2 partner heading to South Africa to see family and do some racing (lucky bastard), I finally lined up at a major race as a solo competitor. With hand surgery in a couple of weeks potentially wiping out the next few months of races, I wasn't sure whether I'd even bother to enter this race but the racing bug bit hard! While it was a warm morning, the wind was blowing hard! It was enough to make me slightly concerned about parts of the course, so I felt pretty bad for the novices, they were certainly in for a wake up call on what the Waimak can be like on race day! In the wind storm that was the 2011 Coast to Coast, I had managed to get to Woodstock dry, before swimming many many times in this final 15km due to the wind. There's really only two strategies for wind, paddle at the speed of it (or faster) so it doesn't impact you, or be at the heavier end of the scale so it doesn't affect you as badly. Unfortunately most of the time both of these strategies ar
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