Comments on: Storm the 10 Solo http://www.teamrunningfree.com/blog/2007/10/15/storm-the-10-solo/ Running, Triathlon, Adeventure Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:45:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Mike http://www.teamrunningfree.com/blog/2007/10/15/storm-the-10-solo/#comment-7422 Mike Fri, 23 May 2008 11:25:46 +0000 http://www.teamrunningfree.com/blog/2007/10/15/storm-the-10-solo/#comment-7422 I did my first Storm last year. It was great, and I was really looking forward to doing it again. I really enjoyed the canoe, hike and most of the bike - Yes the conditions on some of the trails were quite gruelling. The only thing that kinda annoyed me was that the last part of the bike, after the last mandatory checkpoint was soooo difficult. Carrying my bike over rocks for about 2 kms was very gruelling. Other teams took the road back. If we had known that there were rocks on this part of the trail, we too would have taken the road back. After the race, we found out that almost all that took the road back had done that part of the course in a previous year, therefore they knew what lied ahead of them. This cost us precious time, and took approximatly an extra 45 minutes, due to the terrain. I think that if there should have been a mandatory checkpoint somewhere after this part of the bike, so that all teams had to do it. We had a great time, and look forward to Storming again next year! Mike I did my first Storm last year. It was great, and I was really looking forward to doing it again.
I really enjoyed the canoe, hike and most of the bike - Yes the conditions on some of the trails were quite gruelling.
The only thing that kinda annoyed me was that the last part of the bike, after the last mandatory checkpoint was soooo difficult. Carrying my bike over rocks for about 2 kms was very gruelling. Other teams took the road back. If we had known that there were rocks on this part of the trail, we too would have taken the road back. After the race, we found out that almost all that took the road back had done that part of the course in a previous year, therefore they knew what lied ahead of them. This cost us precious time, and took approximatly an extra 45 minutes, due to the terrain.
I think that if there should have been a mandatory checkpoint somewhere after this part of the bike, so that all teams had to do it.

We had a great time, and look forward to Storming again next year!
Mike

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