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Otway Odyssey
When:
Saturday, 23 February, 2008 - 07:00
Duration:
5 hours
Come Rain or Shine:
I'll be there, no matter what the weather. Meeting Point:
Race is through Great Otway National Park, South-West Victoria. According to the site, it starts in Apollo Bay.
Apollo Bay, VIC
Details:
100km enduro believed to be one of the hardest around.
Who's in?
Peter Creeden, raving_hippo, Deano
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more details at http://www.rapidascent.com.au/OtwayOdyssey/
i have talked to the wifey and pending further discussions i am in.
Planning to make a holiday out of it, stay with brother in law in melbourne wed-thu, stay at apollo bay on fri night, race sat, stay at apollo bay, sat/sun/mon night and drive back tuesday, stop over halfway somewhere and get home wed.
I havent entered yet but will do so in the next few days
100km ofcourse - think i better do some more hill training!
Don
oops, this has been discussed here http://nobmob.com/node/2824 but add new comments in this thread
cant do this anymore, holiday in Jan then March, cant get time off in Feb as well.
Maybe 2009?
Don
Someone posted these pics (click this for the gallery) on MTB-OZ, it was a real mud fest by the looks
That can't have been easy!
took me 9+ hours to finish the 100km race. In comparison I finished the highland fling in about 6 1/2 hrs.
The first 50k's were tough, almost broke me. Luckily a girl told me the second 50 was all dry single track and nothing like the first 50, otherwise I would have pulled out. I must have walked 20kms in the first 50, and could bearly manage to walk up without sliding back down.Riding down was just all sideways action, and it was funny seeing people go ass over tit all over the place.
The second half was great riding, really great tracks down there, and thankfully they held up pretty well in the rain.
I can't believe people finished that in just over 5 hours, that's just nuts.
Few injuries in there too. I went passed, guys with broken shoulder, broken nose, snake bite, and apparently some guy ruptured an artery in his ankle.
At least I beat Tinker Juarez(dnf) though. :-}
you, not Tinker!( although he is, but who can say they beat tinker juarez in a mountain bike race!)