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Distance: 31.7
km /19.8 miles
Camp Icebergs to Camp Salt and Pepper
Stage 2, Camp Salt and Pepper, 5:32pm
- All competitors are now in camp eating
dinner, relaxing and swapping stories. It
was a hot one without the breeze of yesterday.
Several runners felt the heat and suffered
dehydration between the first and second
checkpoint of the stage. Kazuo Isomura of
Japan ran out of water and after being laid out
on the path and fanned by staff, he recovered
quickly and was able to sprint across the
finish. Team History Channel is looking
strong despite Danny Moy's sore ankle.
There is suspicion that they are conserving
energy for later in the week. There was a
bottleneck at the second checkpoint of the day
and it was quickly dubbed the "Four Seasons
checkpoint" due to the lavish service they were
providing - service so good, many found it hard
to leave.
It is evening now, the sun has set and the mood
around the campfire seems to be good.
Tomorrow's stage is rumored to be 36km and lots
of sand.
Stage 2, Camp Salt and Pepper, 12:15pm
- What a day so far. Its hot at noon with
temperatures around 38C. Korean Ahn Byeung
Sik blew through in a time of 3 hours 20
minutes. Francesco Galanzino of Italy
close behind. These two are now becoming
an
institution at 4 Deserts events as pack leaders.
Newcomer Jimmi Olsen of Denmark, despite feeling
worn out yesterday came in third. Claire
Price of the UK/Hong Kong is maintaining her
speed and strength and just crossed as the
fourth overall and first woman. She felt
today was a little tougher due to the terrain
but Sandy McCallum who crossed fourteenth
overall and third for women, felt today was much
prettier.
The whole field started out very fast this
morning, while there still was a cool breeze.
By the first checkpoint, all were moving quite
fast. The heat is high now though so we
expect people to be on the course longer than
yesterday.
Camp Salt and Pepper is situated on the edge of
the white desert. The white formations
have given way to expanses of sand peppered with
igneous (volcanic) rock.
NOTE: We had a server blackout last night
for several hours so apologies for all trying to
follow the race. Everything is in order
now and over 100 photos plus video interviews
from Stage 1 have been posted.
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