| Date: Sunday, September
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Weather:
High of 43C. HOT! |
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| RESULTS |
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| Breaking News |
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Daily Field Update | | Picture Gallery |
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Stage
1
Posted 8pm
The heat and exhaustion got the better of 9 competitors
who scratched before reaching the finish line tonight.
The remainder have all crossed the line. Competitors
are now relaxing, fast asleep or sitting around the
campfire listening to a local desert expert. Many are
re-evaluating their race strategies for tomorrow. Race
start for tomorrow has just been pushed to 7am in order
to beat the heat by an hour.
Posted 6:30pm
A brutal stage 1. A lot of the competitors found the
first stage to be a lot tougher than expected. The heat
was unrelenting reaching a high of around 108 in the
shade but in the sun on the hip of a walker, temps reached
122. Add to that sunlight reflecting off the white chalky
surface and even some of the experienced competitors
looked in rough shape when they arrived at the finish.
As of 5:30pm tonight, several competitors had pulled
out. Still about 20 competitors still need to cross
the finish.
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Photos by Chris Lusher
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Photos by Chris Lusher
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Faces
of the Race | | Daily Feature |
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"Profile
of a Competitor: Brett Loller, Australia"
Mason Dwinell, Sahara 2005 Volunteer
September 25, 2005
Through the heat of the day we witnessed heroism and
sorrow, and felt the authority of the Sahara in all
her glory. Fortunately and unfortunately the unassuming
Brett Loller (31 years old) had the opportunity to fully
experience what RacingThePlanet has to offer. About
six months ago Loller learned of this particular race
while surfing the internet in his home town of Adelaide,
Australia.…CLICK
HERE for more… | | "In
the Eyes of the Local Egyptians "
Cathy Cole/RacingThePlanet
September 25, 2005
“This is the only way to see, explore and feel
the desert,” says Hany Zaky or “Zaky”
for short. Zaky is the operations lead for the Sahara
Race 2005 leading a team of fifteen drivers and twenty
support staff who work in the background building and
breaking the campsites every day and manning the campfires,
water and generators. Zaky and his team get to witness
firsthand…CLICK
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Daily Journals |
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| Matthew
Chapman |
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September
25, 2005
Day One – 3pm The first
day of Sahara is over for approximately a quarter
of the field. I’m lying in my boiling tent
writing this and the temperature is 41C. Competitors
now into camp are all describing today’s
course as very tough and I have to agree. A combination
of soft, beach-like sand all the way, coupled
with temperatures which started at 30C at our
9am start and hit 40C at 10.40am (by my watch).
I measured 43C at 12 noon. CLICK
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| Tony
Bammer |
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September, 25,
2005
Day one, on the beach all day, just my luck the
tide was out. Nothing in the world can prepare you
for this, in the sun it was 45 degrees, I planned
to run when it was flat and walk when it wasn’t,
out of 32k I ran ½ k. You cannot comprehend
how tough this is, I could have chucked the towel
in a couple of times. If it wasn’t for Cindy
Drinnan a lot of people wouldn’t have made
it today. I did the last 10k stage with my mate
Dave Wakefield, he’s a City fan so I couldn’t
let him beat me…CLICK
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September 25,
2005 – Robarn Danzman
Its not that I’m hot its simply that my brain
is slowly cooking, simmering in crispy, perforating
sun. I shuffle to the rattle of zipper pulls and
draw cord ends dazed in my dying drying stupor.
I scan the horizon in a desperate attempt to will
an aid station or the finish line. CLICK
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Overheard in the Desert |
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"The only way to experience the desert, is to walk through it" |
-Amr Shannon, Sahara 2005 participant from Egypt. Owner of his own Sahara desert adventure tour company. |
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