This week the event was based out of the Sumnervale Reserve
in Sumner. I wasn’t really looking forward to this event as I knew it would
include a lot of steep tracks and rough terrain which we would struggle to move
quickly over. Despite this, the map did have quite a few navigational options
which would make up for our overall lack of speed. However I made the mistake
of being too optimistic of our speed due to the previous week which ultimately resulted
in us getting a penalty due to returning late.
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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