Primal Quest Update – Day 5
The race has now been going for about 100 hours, and it has to be taking it´s toll.
Orionhealth.com (OH) still at, recently got off the water and are trekking towards CP33 “Indian Creek Overlook”. Though the SPOT Tracking Pagedoesn´t show it, racers on the field report Salomon/Crested Butte (S/CB) should be up around 2nd or 3rd place. Merrel/Zanfel (M/Z) put in a strong effort last night and have currently jumped up to 2nd or 3rd, they will continue to remain strong contenders, you may remember they were second place finishers in last years PQ. Team Bones, just a couple hours behind them. Next in line is the Irish team, Endurox_R4 making a strong showing and then Team Imoat. Team nuun-FeedTheMachine, apparently missed a couple of checkpoints and will be penalized an uknown amount of time, possibly explaining why their position dropped down 7th/8th. It is unclear why team Cordura/Osprey Packs (C/OP) is positioned down at 8th/9th as they were right with Team iMoat at the beginning of the Cheyenne River kayak section. Teams trailing the leading ten will have to race to make various cutoff points.
A bit of drama reported by O/H at the Angostura Reservoir transition, posted up at sleepmonsters.com
“-when Neil Jones’ Merrell/Zanfel (M/Z) team came into transition at Angostura Reservoir. First was their arrival with two team members arriving on one bike (Denise McHale balanced precariously on the seat, husband Greg standing on the pedals and riding) with Neil running the “spare” bike along beside him. One of 5 separate flat tyres which have afflicted M/Z in the race so far occurred not too far from transition and so they proceeded as described to be most efficient and allow those not repairing the bike to prepare for the next legs.”
Additionally, team M/Z caused a stir among teams at the transition point when they chose to bike with their equipment to the point where they wished to swim from, instead of leaving their bikes in the transition area. It will remain to be seen whether they will be penalized for their interpretation of the rules.
And now, for my favorite: Part II of quotes “Heard on the Course” thanks to Frances Fisher, doing a great job on the media front for PQ (posted this in the middle of the night). Hey don`t you guys ever sleep?
“Don’t touch it! You’ll stink forever!” (referring to the inside of a racer’s rain pants)
“Oddly enough, I feel awesome too.”
“What did you do today?” “I don’t remember.”
“That’s what I love about Adventure Racing… you can be naked whenever you want and no one cares.”
“We had a boo-boo took a swim on the kayak.”
“Our shortcuts didn’t pan out, but they looked GREAT on paper!”
“We helped them out by being really bad.”
“Our estimated time is…. Forever.”
Caption photo by Dan Campbell Photography.
Flickr Gallery Photos by Wouter Kingma – www.orangexpresions.com
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