On the third of May, Meia and I did Cape Fear. Cape Fear is an adventure race for kids, there are 50 teams of two competeing. Its 15 kms bike and 8 kms of running, caving, mud crawling, absailing and rock climbing. Cape Fear is held up near Westport. First we had a safety briefing then we went to the start line which was on the beach. The organisers asked if we were ready and we said “yes”. They blew a tooter and we were off! We had to run about 400m before jumping on to our bikes and biking through cow poo, mud and grass. Part of the track was on a bike track called Kawatiri coastal trail.
We then had to leave our bike and run! We ran up a hill and along the ridge before running back down and going into some caves. The caves had water up to my waist, we got super muddy and wet. After that we had to run for a little longer before crawling under a cargo net. We ran onto a beach before doing a golf shot towards a hole. Then we ran past the finish line up to the absailing and rock climbing. One person had to do the absailing and one person the rock climbing, I did the absailing and it was terrifying.
It was finally the last stretch! We sprinted thought the finish line in 2 hours and 59 minutes! We waited about an hour for prizegiveing. Me and Meia came first in our category! We got some medals that were made from driftwood. Finally we said goodbye and went home.
We had so much fun!
Would you do it?
