| Date:
Monday, September 26 |
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Weather:
More heat expected |
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| RESULTS |
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Daily Field Update |
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Stage
2- Marathon
el Qarawin
Posted 8:30pm
The final ten competitors are within a mile or two of
camp. The air is just now starting to cool off. Glow
Sticks are out to mark the final approach.
Posted 5pm
Competitors are still slowly crossing the finish line
after a tough last leg. Prior to checkpoint 6, they
struggled right in the midday heat through a stretch
of sand dunes. Many felt these were better than expected
and absolutely beautiful, some even stopping to take
pictures. Nevertheless all felt they were tough in the
heat. The last leg was a winding path up through through
small plateaus of rock/sand. Camp Table Top is perched
on one of these plateaus in order to take advantage
of a slight breeze. Front runners Ray Zahab and Kevin
Lin placed first and second with Ahn Byeng Sik close
behind. Terri Schneider and Kazuko Kaihata placed first
and second among the women.
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Photos by Chris Lusher
CLICK
HERE for Sept 26, Stage 2 Photos
Photos by Chris Lusher
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HERE for Sept 26, Stage 2 Photos
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Faces
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Daily
Feature |
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"25
Years Leads to the Sahara for Husband/Wife Participants
Profile of Wade and Debbie Bloomer "
Cathy Cole/RacingThePlanet
September 25, 2005
25 years after they were married in Grande Prairie,
Canada, Wade and Debbie Bloomer now find themselves
celebrating their wedding anniversary in the Sahara
Desert. One of them will be competing in the grueling
race while the other will be working just as hard as
part of the volunteer team. Wade is a 4 Deserts veteran
who usually participates with.…CLICK
HERE for more… |
| "The
Remarkable Competitors at the Back of the Pack"
A Course Sweeper’s
View
By Camilla Buttery / Sahara Race 2005 Volunteer
September 26, 2005, Camp Table Top
“Sitting today at the finish line of Stage 2,
the first competitors pacing towards “Sahara Race
2005” emblazoned on a bright green banner, I’m
not sure that anyone would envy the ones picking up
the rear of the pack. Yet, in spite of prolonged exposure
to the heat, still brutal in the late afternoon, and
in spite of the seemingly interminable distance…CLICK
HERE for more… |
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Daily
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| Matthew
Chapman |
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September
26, 2005
Day 2 – Camp Table Top, 6pm
Wasabi peas – generally not something I
get excited about. In the hot Sahara, restricted
to 3.7kg of food weight, these simple appetizers
are simply the food of the gods! As I sit again
in the boiling media tent, filing this update,
I’m munching on Wasabi peas getting my energy
back. Just a moment ago, I emptied my last water
bottle from my pack into a cup to... CLICK
HERE for more… |
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| Tony
Bammer |
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September,
26, 2005
Same shit different day. Yesterday I was out 8
hours 46 minutes. Today 13 hours. Describing it
as hot is like describing the Atlantic Ocean as
a little bit damp. I can’t sit up straight.
I can’t lie down straight so that’s
gonna have to be enough for day. CLICK
HERE for more from Tony… |
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September
26, 2005 – Ray Zahab, Canada
Hey Gang ! This is my second day at my first
RacingThePlanet race –Racing the Sahara.
It has been an amazing course so far with everything
you could ever want in a desert race ! Yesterday
saw intense heat and what seemed to be 3 different
kinds of desert. Rocky, very sandy and intense
beauty of the “white stone pillars”
that were these huge rock formations that I think
were made out of lime stone... CLICK
HERE for more…
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September
26, 2005- Olivia Hackshaw, St Lucia
Day One: The first “Sahara Race”
2005; my first ever. The enormity of what I’ve
undertaken is not lost. At 5 feet nothing I’ve
never been an athlete and now at 58 in the ranks
of some of some of the world’s best endurance
racers. I’ve done some training in the past
year but largely on my own-no personal trainers… CLICK
HERE for more… |
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| Medical
Team Blog |
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September
25, 2005
And the winner is……
The Sun. The heat today was the winner as most
runners struggled through the course. Several
were pulled from the course for heat and exhaustion,
however none needed IV’s because they could
at least keep fluid down… CLICK
HERE for more… |
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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. |
“If
you want to see carnage, come to checkpoint 6” |
-Volunteer
assigned to man the second to last checkpoint 30km into
the stage fully expecting another hot, dry day. |
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