Flying Monkey's, Sudoku and reading errors.

The TEVA race was again held in Belanglo State Forrest, but this year there was no rain. Nice cool weather. Dekiru Yo now features the talents from Jindabyne. Dan & Yuli had both made the trip down to race with us. Few other teams we knew were Just Trippin (Luke/Tsalina and Adam Chase) and Stir Fried Dragons in Black bean sauce (Cherie/Vonnie/ Yoo Yong).
The start was quite frantic with a prison break required for us to get 3 “get out of jail” cards and release our other team mates, this took a while scrabbling around but eventually we got out and were off and racing.

This race we all felt great, however once again we were destined to learn a valuable lesson again. Last year was , to bring a pump and spare tube. So this year we did that, but this year’s lesson was to READ INSTRUCTIONS PROPERLY.

At Checkpoint 10 we were doing really well in 3rd place, after overtaking team Just Trippin due to our superior Sudoku skills. We didn’t read the instruction of splitting up the teams and everyone doing different tasks. In the end this cost us a good placing but we managed to rally and come back to finish strongly.

Some of the memorable challenges completed by the team were Music & Movie name deciphering which Yuli and Dan absolutely smashed, Sudoku which was cleaned up by us in 4 minutes, building a sling shot and flying some monkeys, and sorting ourselves through a tight rope mess.

The last clue was the good old “GO DO BE” decipher code. After running into the dam, and getting the code we had to do a run of around 1500m and tell a volunteer the code of “GO DO BE” however after 15 minutes of trying to convince him that “GO DO BE” was the answer we eventually managed to get the answer he thought of “GO TO BE” so we ran home to the finish line and jumped for joy! (except the photographer had gone home)
Just Trippin managed to come home in 2nd place in the Mixed and 8th Overall to take the prize of the Shoes, while Dekiru Yo, finished 8th Mixed/19th Overall and Stir fry dragons in black bean sauce finished 38th Mixed/70th Overall. So overall was a great race and heaps of fun which is awesome, can’t wait to do more races. Its so addictive, if only the body could do what the mind wants.. ahhhhh dreams..