Race - No Sweat

Location: Turkey Bend Park, on Lake Travis

Team: Tammy Killebrew, Gil Ledesma, Greg Gibbs

Race Summary
1) Load bikes into 1 canoe, swim across river, pulling canoe, to MuleShoe
Ride Trail at Muleshoe
2) Trek at Muleshoe - 3 point
Rushed nav on first 2 points, lost ground (as usual)
3) Paddle back across river to do climbing wall
4) Paddle back to Muleshoe
Forgot to pick up clue sheet, so had to go back to get it.
5) Bike Ride to Spice Springs and Grelle Park
Long and very hot!
6) Paddle to Gloster Bend and trek
Boat Landing CP was stolen, so a little confusion there
Clouded over, so not so hot
Later, after we left, a kayak was stolen from same spot
7) Paddle to Grelle Park and Trek
River too shallow to reach CP area (boats had to be within 100m of cp)
Thick gooey layer of mud lined the shoreline going out 10-20m
Could stand in the mud or will sink to knees (Greg tried it)
Tammy hopped out and crawled on hands and knees, still sinking in several inches
Rest of team crawled out of boat one by one to shore,
Last one in boat paddled down about 100 m to a safe landing spot
Had to pull boat out on steep, slippery bank to then portage to CP area
8) Trek at Turkey bend
In third place, at this point
All went well until the last CP - trouble getting to the major draw
Once there, got flustered, not thinking straight, forgot to expand radius of search
Team was exhausted, Gil's back was hurting
Called it quits after a few attempts to zero in on the CP
Later, figured that we were probably within 30-40m of the CP