Ironbound 2012

Its a 2 day expedition adventure race. Its a long race, a last minute prepared race. Though we have registered half a year ago, somehow we couldnt find a babysitter for our kids. We decided to forgo the race, till the very last minute. Hub N I became irrational & kind of force mum to take care of our kid. Race starts on Saturday, we decided to go on Friday evening. Hurriedly packed all the race stuff, kids stuff & off we went to mum's place. At midnite, we managed to put the kids to sleep. We dozed off eventually. 2.30am, we started our journey to Lumut. Reached about 6.30am, no thanks to the jam on the highway.

Prepared our stuff & started the race right away.

Day 1

3.5km - road/trail run

orienteering

15k - kayak

62k - bike

Surprisingly we were the 4th team overall in the mixed team. 17 mixed teams overall, we initially targeted to finish N enjoy the race. Racers were coming in from Hong Kong N Singapore as well as the local team. Dino & Mariana were the 1st team, followed by Spore team trailing behind 8mins. 3rd was another Singaporean team, then us about 30mins apart. huhu. The race was so long, that at one point it felt like it we were alone for a long time. It was a mind race as well, but somehow we made it before 6pm cut off time. We reached at 5pm. 1st team arrived 1-2hrs earlier, huhu. I guess the midnite squats N some left over endurance I had few years back helped. As for hub, he relied more on his mental strength. He had lesser training than I did. Still, he towed me during the run. We were quite surprise of ourself after the Putrajaya race's performance.

Day 2

5k - kayak

5hrs trail running

Abseiling

We had a leaky kayak. Kayaked from Lumut to Pangkor island, we were about the 6th team. Again, hub towed me throughout the whole trail run, whenever possible. We had a Hong Kong team with us, they made funny jokes. 2nd day was tougher for me, I hate running. We managed to overtake 2 teams N became 4th at the end of the race course. This time, no injury for us. Managed to reach before the cut off at 3pm. We finished at 2.30pm. Sweet. Thanks to the organizer, this would be my most memorable race. A 2 day race. After the race, we shoot back home, I was missing my kids already.