Race Reports for Jeep 12 Hour Adventure Race #2

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Comments: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=361947 is race course map on g-mappedometer.com Results at http://genesisadventures.com/2006%2012-hr%20Results2.pdf This format doesn't really work with adventure races so I'll just write it all down here. TA opened at 6am at Housatonic Meadows State Park and then everyone was bussed 10 miles or so north to the kayak put-in below Falls Village hydro plant. This meant that we would paddle the same course that KB and I raced back in May - just that this time there was only 1/10th the water running so that instead of being in big rapids we'd be scraping bottom on many occasions. Mass kayak start was cool and also the first few miles were into the sun and with a cool fog sitting on the river the paddlers ahead of us were silhouetted - man I wish I had had a camera. Paddling was good for the first 8 miles of so - had to navigate a few shallow bits but we managed to take the good lines from when the river is high and use that to know where the water would

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