Bali Adventure Race

We didn't come in first but sure as hell should have. To make a long story short we came out first on the run and me and my teammate were leading the pack on the Mt. Bike. Unfortunately, after having to walk our bikes up a very steep Mountain side two guys from a competing team caught up. I wasn't worried because I knew their other 2 team members were already toast, fried, flat lining. I decided to wait for the rest of my team and head for the hills. With team together we pedaled like the wind through rice paddies, roads, and Bali heaven. I had the other two competing team members bright colored jerseys who had passed us earlier in my sights. We rode and rode and rode and as we caught up to them I suddenly realized that I hadn't seen any trail markings. In my haste to catch them I realized they had missed the turn and gone the wrong way.

We did a quick about face and after hiking our bikes back up the Mt. and down the other side we realized the other teams had caught up. We were no longer in first place. After passing a number of others on the single track with little blood letting we caught our competitors. The same team that came in second place in the marathon jungle run in Malaysia. A team made up of a sub 3 hour marathon runner, a former Green Beret, a former legionnaire who spent two days in hospital after the Malaysia run do to severe dehydration, and woman who could wear the man pants like most men could never do. Anyway, they put in their raft before us but we managed to paddle past them toward the small village on the other side of the beautiful lake. Once on the other side a team member was to grab a leaf off a certain tree (which was not made clear). Both rafts pulled in simultaneously and we sent the young buck on our team who had come up from the land down under (Australia) to join us. With leaf in hand he ran down from the village. We were in first place. A cry from the other team claiming it was the wrong tree forced him to scramble back up the steep hill to find the sacred tree. The other team's member came running down with a leaf in hand and they quickly paddled away as if old salts. Maybe it was fixed. Sadly, they beat us by 5 minutes to the other side. We finished the run, bike, and raft race in 5:20 minutes. Fun was had by all. We are looking for another race to go head to head again.