Ok ... So the race is now nearly 28 hours old (not including the prologue). Things are starting to get interesting. This is what I can figure out with my extremely biased and selective research.
All sources seem to suggest that Nike and Orion are out in front pushing the pace, followed by Lundhags and Buff. After that no team really gets a mention as being up there. What I can tell from the tracking is that Blackheart are about 8-10km behind Lundhags. It's morning over there now and I also thought that our guys were stationary for a while last night even though the GPS was transmitting ... Possibility they banked some early sleep ???? We do know that they only got a couple of hours on the floor the night after the prologue so a sleep last night (if they had one) could be a very smart decision with 80+ hours of racing left.
Rumor is - from Rob's mum via text message to Kathryn - that they got lost for over an hour on the drive from the Prologue to the start of Stage 2.
There's an update on Adventure Sports Magazine and it appears my most useful twitterer will be on the ground in Portugal from Thursday. There seems to be a major cut-off at 9pm Wednesday (8am Thursday AEDST) I can only assume this is for the end of Stage 3. If correct this will be tight but should be possible for Blackheart to get all the CP's along the way as stage 3 looks like at least a 24 hour stage. Although, it starts with a 24k downhill MTB - part of the course I'd put my hand up for - check out the profile.
Fingers crossed for an update in the morning as the majority of teams finish Stage 2. I'll put in an early tip our guys will be Top 10 ... Any takers?
4 comments:
Dave, I wouldn't even think about betting against you because if it wasn't for you I'd have no idea how they are going. You could tell me that they have won a hot air ballooning leg and I'd be none the wiser. Thanks for the updates!! Nat
Dave, cheers for the update. I can hardly make sense of the 'live' page and am finding it very useless, and bonus checkpoints, I guess there is no clear way to know who is in front for some time. Come on team. Andy Fellows
Given up on the live page. Relying on you Dave.
Mounty
Mounty - Is that you impersonating your wife again?
Andy - Coverage would probably be ok if it was a normal race format - but even though we kind of know where they are, have no idea where they are placed
Nat - I just make up what I don't know ... a there could well have been a hot-air ballooning section. Rollerblade coming up !!!
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