TriHards Defeat their Demons in the Blue Mountains!

15 May 2010

There’s no denying it, the Wild Endurance is a huge event - not only in terms of actually completing the 100km trek - that’s almost the easy part when seen within the big picture. Well, no, not really, it’s still quite hard. But there are other challenges involved: there’s the fundraising components - each team member has to raise a minimum of $400. And the logistics of determining what each team member will require during the race in terms of food, drink, and comfortable places to sit and/or sleep. Finally, there's the task of trying to find people who are just as insane as the TriHards to be the support crew; who will drive around from checkpoint to checkpoint, laden with the team’s gear, ready with hot food and drink, chairs, and encouragement.

An event so big, so hard, and so complicated needs more than a simple race report. No single page will cover the drama associated with the Wild Endurance. No, discussion of such an event needs many, many pages: we want you, dear reader, to know just how overwhelming the various challenges of the Wild Endurance were, so that you know the breadth and depth of our victory in actually completing it. We want you to have every gory detail of our efforts to get a team into the race, and to actually complete it.

So, please, browse through this section and read all about our exciting tales of the Wild Endurance. Hopefully you’ll enjoy reading about it as much as we enjoyed doing it. Hopefully you’ll learn something, like not to do the Wild Endurance!

Report

Read the thrilling report!

Fundraising

This year, the TriHards had goals for the Wild Endurance. They all wanted to finish, together. So they set about training long and hard to achieve those goals. They talked about strategies to give them the best chances to achieve those goals and, in the end, they did achieve those goals. The problem being that they completely forgot about their fundraising goals!

Training

Did we mention the TriHards 2010 Wild Endurance team was a crack international team? That it was composed of a mix of Sydney TriHards, Canberra TriHards, and the Cowboy drifter? There was only one occasion when all managed to train together. To help gee each other up, and keep each other up to date with their current progress the TriHards religiously maintained their blogs on the Wild Endurance fundraising site.

Well, the Cyborg and Doc Runaway religiously maintained them. But not really in the every sabbath sense... Kind of more like the occasional religious holiday sense.

Check out the Cyborg’s Blog and Doc’s Blog

The Course

Go on, check out the new course booklet as PDF. More importantly, have a look at the elevation profiles!

Accommodation

When travelling to the Blue Mountains, the TriHards choose to stay at Harry’s Lookout... But seriously, this year the TriHards hired a luxurious house (for about what it normally costs us to stay in a caravan park!) during the Wild Endurance, and a very good call it was!