Today was another hard day in the Wulong Mountain Quest race. We finished 4th today and there is only one more day to race. We are still 3rd in the overall ranking.
Today’s start at Furong river. In the lower left corner are the kayaks and in the upper right a huge dam and behind the fog Wulong city.
Here is a summary of today’s course:
1) Kayak 20km. Gorgeous paddling on the Furong lake. Steep sides, waterfalls… fantastic scenery.
2) Running 10km. Started with a steep uphill from the Furong river and some muddy technical downhills. At one stage the track was carved into a 200m high vertical cliff face.
3) MTB 38km. Muddy and hilly!
4) Abseil 40m. Abseil from a bridge into the water. It was nice to splash into the water and get clean after the MTB
5) Swimming 300m. Swim to the rafts. Nice and warm water.
6) Rafting 1.5km. Rafting on the lake to the finish. Felt like it was much longer than 1.5km.
Today’s results (5 first)
1 Team Toread 5:59:59
2 Thule Adventure Team 6:08:19
3 Tineli NZ 6:12:55
4 Team Haglöfs Silva 6:27:51
5 www.peakadventure.com.au 6:31:13