Two Fat Ladies Sail Again

Two Fat Ladies Sail Again

Tuesday 5 February 2008

The Two Fat Ladies Ride Again

So, since the first race we have competed in 2 further AR's (with special mention to my brother Ross for taking Chris' place in one of them) and while the difficulty rating was not as high as the Kilbroney Challenge, the fun level most definately was.

The CCAR race in Gortatole was next and reviews can be seen here [http://www.causewaycoastar.co.uk/id29.html] as well as reviews of the other races in the 2007 series. Again we enjoyed this immensely although found the huge distance of the Kayak stage to be incredably hard. Our header photo is a shot taken from this race.

Then it was on to our home(ish) race in Belfast along the lagan. I cycle along the towpath every day to and from work so navigation for this race was no problem for me for a change. The format for this race was slightly different in that we had to navigate to as many of the 40 checkpoints as possible within 3.5 hours rather than complete a full course. Again this was great fun with the highlight being the river rapids on the inner tubes. Some shots from this race can be seen in the Belvoir gallery. Look out for Ross falling off the inner tube at the start of the rapids!

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